Union plans week of activity, including seminar and parliamentary event, to boost the fight for a living wage
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Profit motive in public services condemned by UNISON disabled members’ conference
Activists and negotiators meet for two day seminar on pay, bargaining and equality
Principles and timetable for negotiation
Huge cost involved in outsourcing revealed
Landmark New Year message pledges UK’s biggest three unions to mobilise in 2011
UNISON and the Fawcett Society have welcomed the Government’s commitment to tackle inequality and discrimination in the Equality Bill, due to be published on Monday, but want action to toughen up equal pay legislation.
The Prime Minister is mistaken if he thinks the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) is the solution to public service reform, UNISON, the UK’s biggest union said today.
UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis, today won the support of European Public Service unions, representing over 40m people, for a fair wages fight across Europe. The unions have pledged to back UNISON’s campaign to secure measures aimed at protecting British public services workers, who are being pushed into the arms of private companies as part of the Government’s privatisation plans.