Meat hygiene inspectors vote to strike
(21/11/08) Members support action in dispute over cuts to conditions
View ArticleMeat hygiene campaign
With the European elections just a month away, UNISON is encouraging members to write to candidates over the threat to our independent meat hygiene service.
View ArticleJoint AMI / UNISON position on Trimming
In the interested of public health, Meat Inspectors should be permitted to trim areas of contamination from carcasses.
View ArticleUNISON calls for reintroduction of official inspection in meat processing plants
(8/2/12) UNISON has today called for the immediate re-introduction of daily independent inspections of meat cutting premises.
View ArticleNow is not the time to be cutting back on independent meat inspection
In the wake of the Horsemeat scandal, UNISON has written to the Chair of the Food Standards Agency, and FSA Board Members, to ask for a meeting to discuss the Agency’s on-going policy of de-regulating...
View ArticleEx-MHS employees of the Food Standards Agency – URGENT action
Ex-MHS employees of the Food Standards Agency - URGENT action needed to protect your pensionable pay.
View ArticleUNISON report exposes truth behind the Chancellor’s pay con trick
Thousands of low-income households will be worse off next April when the increase in the minimum wage is more than wiped out by changes to tax credits, according to a new report from UNISON published...
View ArticleCouncils condemn trade union bill
Employers delivering public services across the country are joining unions in condemning the government’s Trade Union Bill. Caerphilly council in Wales is in line to become just the latest council to...
View ArticleFacility time pays dividends for employers and staff
UNISON is urging all activists and members to get involved in its campaign to get the government to drop the Trade Union Bill and protect facility time – the time UNISON volunteers use to do their...
View ArticleLabour’s new kinder way will help to win people back to the party
Labour’s new kinder way will help to win people back to the party, says UNISON Commenting on Jeremy Corbyn’s speech to the Labour party conference in Brighton today (Tuesday), UNISON general secretary...
View ArticleTrying to stop check-off for union subs ‘a silly and petty policy’
Plans to prevent union members having their subs deducted from wages are “a silly and petty policy,” says Doncaster mayor Ros Jones. “It is not what the government should be wasting its time on when...
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Your friend at work
When Karen Williamson, a school technician at a Winchester academy school in her early Fifties, found that her working life was about to be turned upside down, she asked her UNISON rep, deputy branch...
View ArticleWelsh councils and unions unite to oppose Trade Union Bill
UNISON Cymru/Wales has joined other local government unions and Welsh councils to signal their joint opposition to the UK government’s Trade Union Bill. UNISON, GMB and UNITE are championing a...
View ArticleWhen the cared for becomes the carer
“I knew someone who had terminal cancer and they had their financial support taken away.” Graeme Ellis works closely with disabled people and people who are very ill, and he’s worried about how they’re...
View ArticleTricks but no treats
The government’s Trade Union Bill really is a nightmare for working people, a nightmare made on Downing Street. This weekend, children up and down the country will knocking on their neighbours’ doors...
View ArticleUNISON welcomes government climb down over restrictions on unions’ social...
Welcoming the news today (Tuesday) that the government has decided to abandon plans for unions to give two weeks notice of any social media activity when involved in industrial action, UNISON General...
View ArticleWelsh social care provider sacks entire staff
UNISON, Britain’s largest public sector union, has reacted angrily to the decision of social care provider Anheddau Cyf, to dismiss its entire staff of 300 people and re-engage them only if they accept...
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