Glen Williams speaking at 2023 LG conference

Time to fight for a fair pay rise

Local government conference opens in Liverpool with a refusal ‘to be made poorer by this government’

Article on the UNISON National site.

The Future We Want

Labour’s deputy leader, UNISON’s general secretary and a leading UNISON activist – three very influential women – discuss the politics needed to bring about change

UNISON calls for tougher taxes on energy profits

While workers are struggling to pay their energy costs, BP has announced profits of £4 billion in the first three months of this year

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

Bank’s chief economist is “living on another planet”

Denying staff a pay rise won’t help the economy

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.

Pay pay pay

Protecting and increasing pay is vital to UNISON. We organise, we act, we win. But the work never stops. Get involved and let’s win together.

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

Blog: Money for everything, everywhere, just not your pay rise

Today’s budget found the cash to offer tax cuts to big businesses and the highest earners – but nothing for public service pay, again

General Secretary's blog on the UNISON National site.
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.

Blog: Which version of the UK will Jeremy Hunt choose to back?

We’ll be watching closely, and we’ll be ready to take action if the chancellor fails to fix the crisis in pay packets and public services

General Secretary's blog on the UNISON National site.
Jeremy Hunt

How the budget could fix public services

But new UNISON research shows that public service workers are overwhelmingly pessimistic about chancellor Jeremy Hunt doing the right thing next week

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

The cost of living crisis hits home for working women

UNISON national women’s conference opens with passionate debate on wide-ranging effects of the crisis, as women become the ‘shock-absorbers’ of austerity

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

Fair pay is the way to protect public services as high inflation continues

Ministers must move on wages as workers struggle

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.