Government should be ashamed of trading lives for votes over Rwanda

Gambling with lives is a disgrace

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.

Government should focus on fixing social care, not playing politics with people’s lives

Higher pay needed to boost workforce

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.

UNISON condemns government plans to hike visa fees for migrants

The cost of the Immigration Health Surcharge – a double tax migrant workers have to pay to access healthcare – is set to increase to over £1,000 a year for each person

Article, News on the UNISON National site.
Members campaigning at a stall

Stop Deportations to Rwanda

The scapegoating of refugees and migrants – spearheaded by Suella Braverman’s talk of the ‘invasion’ of Southern England by ‘illegal immigrants’, and her ‘obsession’ with deporting refugees to Rwanda – is opening the door to the far right. We have seen distressing scenes of violent attacks on asylum seeker accommodation by far-right activists. HOPE not […]

Black members news on the UNISON National site.

Government breaks pledge to stop low-paid health and care staff paying twice to use the NHS

Boris Johnson promised a lifeline to low-paid workers then callously pulled it away

Article, News, Press release on the UNISON National site.

Fighting on two fronts – and paying the price

Migrant key workers are on the pandemic frontline but their fight to remain in the country is harder than ever

Elderly woman and carer, with words 'social care' image from cover of report

Government’s treatment of migrant workers is shameful

Out of touch ministers measure value only in pounds and pence 

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.
Microscopic view of the Coronavirus

UNISON welcomes visa extension announcement

Home Office grants automatic extensions to health and care workers – and indefinite leave to remain to family of healthcare workers who die of COVID-19

News on the UNISON National site.
Home health care worker and an elderly couple

Immigration plans ‘spell disaster for care sector’, says UNISON

Ending the supply of workers will leave vulnerable with no support

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.

Fighting against NHS fees for pregnant migrant women

For pregnant women, the “hostile environment for migrants” is degrading and forces health workers to act foremost as border control and debt collectors instead of healthcare providers

Article, News on the UNISON National site.