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BUDGET response: A grown-up budget to rejuvenate public services and turn the page on Tory failings, says UNISON
UNISON assistant general secretary Jon Richards:
“Rachel Reeves has hit the reset button, erasing the Tory shambles and misery of the past,"
“This authoritative
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Any Brexit deal should be put to the country
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Good to hear
@Keir_Starmer
today calling out the accusation that many nurses and teachers were drinking in staff rooms during Covid restrictions
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UNISON will be joining our sister unions in advising that only staff needed to look after vulnerable and children of key workers should return to schools in England on Monday, similar to the first lockdown. More detail on our position will follow shortly.
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Thank you to
@Keir_Starmer
for calling out the accusation that nurses and teachers were drinking in staff rooms during Covid restrictions
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How far will the government go to avoid a decent public sector payrise?
#PatOnTheBack
#PayUpNow
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Thanks to the Conservatives, seeing your GP can feel like mission impossible. They're destroying our NHS. Your vote can save it.
#YourVoteCan
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UNISON legal victory sees employment tribunal fees scrapped Win for all workers after four-year fight
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Tonight at 6pm - wherever you are - please show your solidarity
#JusticeForGeorgeFloyd
#TakeTheKnee
Wherever you are, at 6pm on Wednesday 3 June,
#TakeTheKnee
+/ hold a sign on your doorstep to say
#BlackLivesMatter
,
#JusticeForGeorgeFloyd
The millions who stand against racism must be heard.
Details:
#BlackLivesMatterUK
#ICantBreathe
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From the Bryant & May matchgirls to the care workers in Birmingham - women have been at the heart of the trade union movement and the struggle for equality
#IWD2020
#InternationalWomensDay
#IWD
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Ambulance staff across England are taking strike action today in the hope the government will listen to them on the state of the service and hold meaningful pay talks
Send messages of support, and write to your MP to
#PutNHSPayRight
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BREAKING: High Court rules government strike-breaking legislation unlawful following UNISON case, with judge ruling that Business Secretary acted unfairly and irrationally.
Employers can no longer hire agency staff to replace striking workers.
Press Release:
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Congratulations
@UNISON_Legal
on winning
#ETFees
case 👏 Landmark win for
#AccessToJustice
for all UK workers.
#ukemplaw
1 Delighted to announce that UNISON legal team has WON the ET fees case in the Supreme Court. A lot more to follow from me
#ukemplaw
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: UNISON win in UK Supreme Court to stop bad bosses from punishing striking workers
'The most important industrial action case for decades,' UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea
The government must now act quickly to change the law and ensure no other
Judgment has been handed down this morning in the matter of Secretary of State for Business and Trade (Respondent) v Mercer (Appellant) UKSC 2022/0080:
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Would you rather leave your child or your elderly parent without care? 👧🏼👩🏽🦳 Smell urine or uncollected rubbish? 🚽🗑
😬 Impossible choices face our communities. But we can
#SaveOurServices
Write to your MP at to
#DemandThe10Billion
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Ministers must end jab compulsion to prevent care home catastrophe
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The attack on Filipino nurses on Friday night on their way to provide emergency cover at a hospital was absolutely disgusting and disgraceful.
As a public service union, we’re proud of our migrant health, NHS and care staff and we will be supporting them however we can.
Solidarity with our Filipino Nurses
an attack upon them is an attack upon us all
Stop the right wing thugs attacking our nursing colleagues
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"You wouldn't have been a cynic to think that my life and the life chances of my baby had been written off." WHAT an inspiring, brave personal story
@AngelaRayner
. And with a shout out to UNISON mid speech! 😊
A testament to the power of education, and the power of a union✊.
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Ambulance workers could be the first facing the sack for taking strike action, under this Tory government’s new draconian laws.
They are leading the march to protect the
#RightToStrike
, just as GCHQ workers did 40 years ago under Thatcher’s government
#CheltenhamDemo
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Keir Starmer: “The public should have the option to remain”
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In the meantime please sign and share this joint
@UNISONinSchools
&
@NEUnion
petition to demand that all schools and colleges move immediately to online learning. Sign now to
#MakeSchoolsSafe
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Thank you
@AngelaRayner
and all MPs voting against the bill today
Sign
@The_TUC
petition
Rishi Sunak has gone from clapping nurses to sacking them.
He’s lashing out at working people with a shoddy, unworkable law - that will do nothing to fix the mess he’s made.
Labour opposes this spiteful assault on common sense - and we’ll be voting against this Bill today.👇🏻
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Please share your support for workers going on strike. Show them they are not alone in this struggle, and that we stand with them in their efforts to improve workplaces.
#TogetherWeRise
via
@unisontheunion
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Christina McAnea elected UNISON general secretary
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From the Bryant & May matchgirls to the care workers in Birmingham - women have been at the heart of the trade union movement and the struggle for equality
#IWD2020
#InternationalWomensDay
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An absolutely stunning victory - for everyone in work. Supreme Court backs
@unisontweets
and scraps tribunal fees
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Disgraceful and shocking to see the UK PM make an anti-trans jibe while the mother of Brianna Ghey watches on from the gallery.
This government needs to go, and go now.
Rishi Sunak makes jibe about Keir Starmer's position on "defining a woman" as he lists what he says are his "broken promises"
"Of all the weeks to say that, when Brianna [Ghey's] mother is in this chamber," says Keir Starmer
#PMQs
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Today is May Day – International Workers’ Day when we celebrate the ongoing struggle and solidarity of working people.
In the UK our rights, such as the
#RightToStrike
and protest, are under attack. We stand together in defending the rights of working people ✊
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🆕 UNISON's message to members in England whose schools are set to open to all pupils from next week: we don't believe it's safe.
👀 Read this important advice
📧 Send the model letter to your head or employer
✍ Sign the petition to make schools safe
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It is great to see
@Keir_Starmer
supporting UNISON's campaign to get PPE for our carers, NHS staff and keyworkers on the frontline. 💜
Your stories are heard. Your safety matters. 😷🧤
#PPEnotPromises
#PPENow
#PPEforAllKeyworkers
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NHS workers are on strike again today fighting for fair pay and a safer service
Support our healthcare workers, ask the government to come clean and
#PutNHSPayRight
Send a tweet now 👉
More ways to
#SupportNHSWorkers
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"I was a carer for mum at 10. I had a baby at 16. Now I'm an MP".
@AngelaRayner
had never heard of UNISON when she started as a care worker, but her first step as a union rep eventually led her to Parliament. Her story is inspiring.
MP Angela Rayner opens up on youth that saw her become carer at 10 and mum at 16
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👏 Thank you for clapping for our carers! It was amazing to hear all that appreciation for the brave men and women helping us to fight
#covid19
- in our hospitals, homes and streets.
(UNISON general secretary
@DavePrentis
on
@Channel4News
👇)
#clapforourcarers
#clapforthenhs
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1% is not acceptable and it’s not a done deal. Help us get ready
💪 Join UNISON
📲 Update your details
🗣️ Ask your colleagues to join UNISON
📢 Stand up - ask friends and family to support NHS workers Thursday 11 March at 8pm
Get organised 👥
#NHSPay
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Happy Birthday NHS 🎉 Here’s to the remarkable people who have worked in the NHS over the last 74 years, the lives saved, supported and improved. Proud to support the whole NHS team and fight to defend our national service 💜
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‘Working people are not serfs. The right to withdraw labour is a fundamental human right’
UNISON general secretary
@cmcanea
committing to fighting anti-strike laws
@The_TUC
special congress on the
#RightToStrike
today.
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The lack of sympathy toward the
#WASPI
women and hostility from some quarters is shocking but not surprising.
Society continues to undervalue the work that women do and takes their contribution for granted.
Opinion: Why the fight for Waspi pension justice is far from over
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Health workers at University College Hospital giving
@BorisJohnson
slow claps for his miserly 1% pay offer.
NHS staff deserve a proper thank you.
#WithNHSstaff
#nhspayrise
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Benjamin Zephaniah was a proper hero and true champion of the working class.
He left school unable to read and was generous enough to help promote literacy through the union movement. Our thoughts are with his family, friends and everyone whose lives he touched.
Rest in Power.
We are devastated to hear about the passing of Benjamin Zephaniah.
His unapologetic work towards Black liberation and for the working class will never be forgotten.
Rest in Power.
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'There's never a good time to strike, but I think there's no option now. This government has already made noises about squeezing the public sector and pay restraint'
Christina McAnea
@cmcanea
, head of UK's largest union on
#Newsnight
(at 30 minutes)
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💔Be heartbroken. 😡And then get ANGRY.
#socialcare
care is in crisis due to devastating cuts and we deserve better – for our loved ones, for our dedicated care workers, for the future. We URGENTLY need to fund care properly 📺
#CrisisInCare
#BBCPanorama
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Our postal workers have been vital key workers during the
#COVID19crisis
They do so much more than just deliver the post. They are at the heart of our communities 💜
Thank your postie on
#PostalWorkersDay
this Wednesday and tell us more about them 📮
Wednesday is National
#PostalWorkersDay
RT this if you have a brilliant postie and you are going to thank them in person or online on Wednesday 👏
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🚨EMERGENCY Protest🚨
Protect the
#RightToStrike
Join us in Parliament Square TONIGHT at 6pm
@The_TUC
protest against government's new anti-strike law as final bill goes through Parliament
📣This law will mean public sector workers, like NHS workers, could face the sack for
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Thank you to
@Keir_Starmer
for supporting frontline NHS and care workers at
#PMQs
this week. Highlighting an issue raised by UNISON members of the continued imposition of deeply unfair charges for NHS treatment for frontline workers.
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📺 Who’s watching
@MrGeorgeClarke
’s
#CouncilHousing100
? Great programme – defending social housing is our national collective responsibility. Millions of us know what a difference decent council housing can make! 🏠🏘🏡🏠
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Love it - 'guest of honour'. What a gent
@NevilleSouthall
💜
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Just so it's in black and white... Court of Appeal confirms *all workers are entitled to a minimum of 28 days paid annual leave*🎉✊
UNISON intervened in this landmark case – a victory for all workers, especially those working part-time or irregular hours
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Thanks Mick
@RMTunion
Unions must stand together over these scandalous
#FireAndRehire
practices
If you’re in the South West, help support St Monica care workers on their picket line. If you’re facing the same issues at work, join a union
@UNISONSW
Mick Lynch of the
@RMTunion
gives his support to
@unisontheunion
care workers on strike in St Monica’s Trust.
The media has tried to pit rail and care workers against each other – but it’s the same fight.
#StMonicaStrike
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“Britain’s bin workers are the fourth emergency service. If we’re not here, it’s rubbish.” - Chris Jobson, refuse driver, Barnet Borough Council
Let's hear it for our local service champions 👏🏼👏🏾👏🏿
#UNISONtheUnion
#LocalServiceChampions
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Scotland's most northerly picket line - Ollaberry 💜
School staff in Scotland are determined to get a reasonable offer!
@unisonscot
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📺 Tonight’s
#Hospital
laid bare the impact of
#Carillion
’s collapse on our NHS. Boils the blood to see shareholder pockets lined while vital services put at risk
@UNISONOurNHS
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“What the Conservatives have never grasped is that investing in public services helps you grow your economy”
UNISON general secretary
@cmcanea
on
#BBCLauraK
panel this morning
@BBCPolitics
@bbclaurak
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Three Prime Ministers in four months. £40 billion of cuts to public services. Hundreds of thousands of families struggling to make ends meet.
We need a general election now. Email your MP
👉
#GeneralElection
#GeneralElectionNow
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“We were told in the first five years of austerity ‘we’re all in this together’. Well really, what has that delivered for public services?”
Christina McAnea
@cmcanea
on pay, public services and the cost of living crisis with
#BBCLauraK
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#CeasefireNow
- Day of Action, 10 October
@PSCupdates
@STWuk
and others are calling on trade union members and branches to support a workplace day of action to end the war in Gaza.
The last 12 months have had a devastating impact on workers. Palestinian trade unions are calling
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BREAKING: The ambulance strike ends at midnight.
UNISON stands in solidarity with all ambulance staff who reluctantly went out on picket lines during today's industrial action.
We thank the public for their unwavering support and urge the government to act now.
#PutNHSPayRight
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The Glasgow strikers are on their picket lines today with the strength of UNISON's 1.3 million members behind them. A woman's place is in her union! 💪
#EqualPayGlasgow
#joinUNISON
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Message to UNISON members from general secretary
@DavePrentis
| Our union is crystal clear - your safety comes first
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"Imagine having spent your working life planning for retirement on a certain date only to be told a year before you could have to work for years longer to get your state pension." UNISON supports the
@WASPI_Campaign
.🐝
@WomenInUNISON
@UNISONWales
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If wealth was taxed fairly, public services could be properly funded and support our economy
Christina McAnea
@cmcanea
, head of UNISON, on
@BBCPolitics
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The clapping might have stopped, but the support shouldn't. Join us in the fight to support all key workers and rebuild public services at
#NoGoingBackToNormal
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Excellent news that UNISON has been granted permission to appeal last year’s judgment on sleep-in pay for care workers. Now there’s the chance to clarify the law once and for all. We'll never stop fighting for care workers.
#socialcare
#awakeonasleepin
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Communities must come together to reject extremism and hatred, says UNISON
“The overwhelming majority of people will be appalled by the scenes of violence, racism and looting inflicted by far right thugs in towns and cities across Britain," UNISON general secretary Christina
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Great to see
@jeremycorbyn
and
@UKLabour
front bench backing public service workers at
#PMQs
- wearing our UNISON
#PayUpNow
badges
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Join us this Saturday.
Unite against Tommy Robinson.
📍12pm Russell Square WC1B 5EH. March to Trafalgar Squar
#Unions4Unity
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UNISON shares NHS leaders’ concerns. We have warned removing free testing could lead to more disruption. The government must bring back free testing and a proper plan for living with Covid
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Labour takes forward UNISON domestic abuse amendments. Shadow minister for domestic violence and safeguarding
@jessphillips
takes forward UNISON proposals on paid domestic abuse leave and extending domestic abuse protection orders to the workplace
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We’re fighting for higher pay, not just for public sector workers, but for everyone. It’s time for us to rise up together and demand this government
#EndThePayCrisis
Take action 👉
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📺😡 People are rightly angry after watching tonight's
#Panorama
on academies. Our head of education Jon Richards told the BBC: "we warned [the government] 3 years ago... alarm bells should have been ringing all the way through this process". Catch up 👉
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‘Showing solidarity for workers in struggle should never be something that Labour politicians are stopped from doing’
That was the position at UNISON’s Labour Link Forum, and it remains our position today. We stand with striking workers 👉
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MPs are currently debating women's pension provision. We're proud to support the
@WASPI_Campaign
for a fair transitional arrangement. Watch the debate live on Parliament TV
#WASPI
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The fight for fair pay continues
#PutNHSPayRight
🚑 Ambulance services: 11 and 23 January
🏥 NICE: 17-23 January
Join UNISON
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UNISON joins the fight over proper use of health data
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On Saturday 18 June, we’ll be taking to the streets to demand action on the cost of living – a new deal for working people, and a pay rise for all workers. Join us
#DemandBetter
Info:
@The_TUC
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UNISON lining up at the front of the march to protect the
#RightToStrike
. Great turnout from our members across the regions.
Led by our general secretary
@cmcanea
and ambulance members
#CheltenhamDemo
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Work in public services and supporting the march today? Tell us why 'enough is enough' in your service.
#EndAusterityNow
#NotOneDayMore
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A massive win for our union and all workers |
@DavePrentis
on today's
#ETfees
ruling
#ukemplaw
#accesstojustice
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£33m on the Brexit ferry case, £500m on failed probation privatisation. How much public money has Chris Grayling wasted exactly?
#FailingGrayling
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NHS and emergency services staff. Cleaners. Caterers. Careworkers. School support staff. Utility workers. Council staff. And many, many others
Today we are thanking all those providing vital support to our communities during the
#covid19uk
crisis 💜👏
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Prime Minister should focus on the NHS, not demonise those too sick to work, says UNISON
"The Prime Minister has promised and failed to cut NHS waiting lists," UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea on PM Rishi Sunak's proposals on welfare reform.
"Worse still, his
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Most NHS staff in England are British, but across the NHS there are over 200 different nationalities.
Migrant workers keep our health and social care system going.
#MigrantsDay
#OneTeamNHS
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🚨 DAY OF PROTEST
#StopTheHate
Join anti-racists, trade unionists, faith organisations, refugee groups and more in unity and solidarity.
Bring your union banners 🪧
📍UK events this weekend ⏩
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BREAKING: Supreme Court ruling is a victory for underpaid workers, says UNISON
Many UK workers could be entitled to thousands of pounds unfairly taken from their pay following a landmark Supreme Court ruling today in a successful challenge brought by UNISON.
“UNISON’s
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Goodbye to bad laws 👋
Not one employer used the Tories’ unworkable and divisive anti-strikes law.
Proud our movement stood together to oppose this attack on working people✊
#RightToStrike
The government has announced it will repeal the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act to rebuild relations with industry through strong but fair negotiation 👉
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UNISON, the UK's largest trade union, is 30 today! 🎉
#Unison30
Help us celebrate thirty years of
#WinningTogether
in UNISON
Give a shout-out to your branch, rep, activist or member! 💜 Or tell us about when you joined UNISON.
Photos welcome 📸
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Today
@ToniaAntoniazzi
keeps the pressure on the government on behalf of 1950s-born women. 👏 The goalposts were moved for their state pension and it's had a huge impact on their lives, including thousands of our members.
@WASPI_Campaign
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Amazing nationwide public support for striking ambulance staff. Please show your
#solidarity
by sharing!
#PutNHSPayRight
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25 years of the UK minimum wage.
We’re proud of the work our members and union did to help win a statutory minimum wage for working people, significantly reducing low pay and curbing exploitative employers.
In the spirit of those who struggled to make it a reality, we continue
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UNISON ‘unequivocally condemns’ Tory donor’s ‘horrific abuse’ of Diane Abbott
@HackneyAbbott
‘No woman in public life should have to accept this kind of abuse and intimidation,’ Christina McAnea
@cmcanea
UNISON considers comments made by Frank Hester, the Tory Party’s biggest
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On
@SkyNews
today general secretary
@cmcanea
was on the picket line explaining the need for industrial strike action in the face of a flat refusal by the government to sit down and talk about a fair pay offer for NHS staff.
#PutNHSPayRight
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Ready to move off with UNISON at the head of the
#DemandBetter
march. Let's send a message to Westminster- we need action now on the cost of living crisis
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Jeremy Corbyn: "To win a general election, whenever it comes, we need to be mobilised like never before. Things can and will change"
#undc16
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Happy birthday NHS! 🎂🎉 UNISON, the UK’s biggest trade union, is proud to represent the whole team of NHS staff as they save lives and care for patients and their families. The NHS and NHS staff – a great team worth celebrating!
#NHS71
#HappyBirthdayNHS
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