General secretary’s blog: Get set for a Queen’s Speech that delivers nothing  10 May 2022

The Tories in Westminster won’t focus on what needs to be done to tackle the cost of living crisis, but on ‘the wrong things and the wrong time’

‘Working people cannot afford 12 more years of decline’  

After Labour’s success at the polls last week, deputy leader Angela Rayner talks exclusively to UNISON about her upbringing and what is really needed to fix the cost of living crisis

Cap on pay increase an ‘insult’ to Environment Agency staff  25 April 2022

Colleagues, UNISON has submitted the staff side pay claim for this year and is supporting a claim for 10%, to cover cost of living increases, plus a 2.5% claw back. …

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Blog: The spring statement is a slap in the face for workers  28 March 2022

The chancellor pretends that he has to make difficult financial choices. He told the British public that while he felt for British households facing a cost of living crisis, he does not have the power or the money to help them. But this is fake news.

Blog: Why solidarity with Ukraine is the only way  16 March 2022

General secretary Christina McAnea writes about the role that the international trade union movement must play in supporting Ukraine.