Wednesday 2 November 2016

New living wage set

UNISON has welcomed the new living wage rates, announced simultaneously in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Manchester this morning.
They new rates are:
  • £8.45 an hour for the UK outside London;
  • £9.75 an hour within London, to take account of the higher cost of living there.
These rates are based on the minimum income standard for the UK – how much someone needs to earn for a basic but decent life.
They differ from the government’s so-called ‘national living wage’, which is a rebranded minimum wage for over 25s.
The announcements came at the start of Living Wage Week, “a time each year to talk about making work pay, while remembering that millions of people in our country still work for poverty wages,” as general secretary Dave Prentis noted.
He welcomed today’s announcement of new rates as “an independent and verifiable level of pay which meets the most basic needs – quite literally, a wage upon which someone can be reasonably expected to live – and then campaigning for employers to pay it.
“UNISON has been proud to support and campaign for the living wage from the outset,” he said.
“And the living wage has become an integral part of our own campaigning, whether in the social care sector or the water industry.”

Friday 22 July 2016

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Monday 30 May 2016

The 2016 School uniform grants now available

School uniform grants

Families on low incomes can struggle to make ends meet, especially just before the start of the new school year. UNISON’s scheme helps members on low incomes deal with the cost of school uniforms.
The 2016 school uniform grant is now available. You can find an application form in the Resources section below – please ensure that UNISON has received this by July 15.










Thursday 17 March 2016

Trade union bill defeated by lords

David Cameron's trade union crackdown in disarray after resounding Lords' defeat. A great result in the Lords on the Trade Union bill. Government defeated on facility time, e-balloting, and political funds. Ministers may have to rethink. Well done to all our members who have been working on this. Let's keep the pressure up!

Tuesday 15 March 2016

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