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Yesterday was International Workers’ Day, and Ryan Jones, the chair of the UNISON national young members forum, addressed the Welsh Assembly on young workers

The government wrote off all debt at privatisation.Dr Peter Kenway, director of the New Policy Institute and co-author of the report said: "The […]

Survey of young people shows that 93% do not think that the government is doing enough to help them to cope with the recession

The country’s 17 to 25-year-olds feel so let down that 24% say they will not vote in the next general election

UNISON says inflation means these ‘rises’ are effectively a further cut in the value of the national minimum wage

UNISON is calling for the government to put a stop to these changes, freeze the £20 bn so-called efficiency savings and start listening to […]

The number of UNISON members turning to the union’s welfare charity, There For You, has doubled since 2010, and most are working full time

A single state pension scheme could have serious implications for pension schemes in both the public and private sectors, says union

Union says the Chancellor is ‘out of ideas and should be out of a job’

George Osborne’s plans for low inflation and falling unemployment are unraveling in the face of figures, as UNISON reveals a yawning gap between 2010 Budget forecast and today’s economic reality