Blog: A significant step forward for pregnant workers and new parents

UNISON has been working with Dan Jarvis MP on a bill, which just passed its third reading, to provide additional protections in the workplace

General Secretary, General Secretary's blog on the UNISON National site.
Christina McAnea, smiling and have a cuppa =as she chats with members at Deptford

Blog: Government inaction just leads to more action

The pay crisis that our members are dealing with won’t go away if the government sticks to their current game-plan of ignoring workers and their unions

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Christina McAnea on a picket line in Sheffield, with ambulance strikers, addressing the media

Blog: Why we must defend the right of working people to strike

The anti-strike bill is draconian and undemocratic, and will do nothing to fix the problems this government has caused

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Unison General Secretary, Christina McAnea, visits picket lines at Ambulance stations across Yorkshire, in support of striking Ambulance and support crews. Photo shows the Longley Ambulance Station, Sheffield.

Christina McAnea tours pickets on second NHS strike day

The general secretary visited picket lines across Yorkshire and the North East yesterday to show support and solidarity for UNISON’s ambulance workers on strike

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Screengrab of Christina McAnea thanking those who took strike action on Wednesday 21 December

General secretary thanks strikers

Christina McAnea’s says public support is on the union’s side

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Christina McAnea at the Waterloo ambulance station, with pickets

Rolling report: #PutNHSpayright

Check back throughout the day to see what’s happening around the regions as strikes begin across the ambulance service in England and at two Liverpool hospitals

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Christina McAnea addressing UNISON's LGBT+ conference

Christina McAnea: ‘It’s great to be loud and proud’

General secretary tells UNISON LGBT+ conference that there’s still much to do on equalities and trans equality cannot be treated as some ‘poor relation’

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general secretary Christina McAnea with UNISON members outside a London hospital

Blog: It is within their power to give NHS workers the pay they deserve

“This government let frontline workers take responsibility when times were at their toughest, but now it refuses to take responsibility for the things that are in its control”

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Portrait of Christina McAnea

Blog: The government paves the way for Austerity 2.0

‘Austerity affects peoples’ lives so profoundly that its legacy can last for generations’

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Christina McAnea addressing TUC congress in Brighton. She is wearing a black jacket over and black and white top and is pictures at the congress rostrum, her left had raise, and against a dappled purple background

‘Co-ordinated action unites us,’ McAnea tells TUC congress

General secretary tells delegates in Brighton that UNISON will be working with other unions to help working people get the pay rise that they deserve

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