Richard Crowther
UNISON was created to defend and improve its members’ terms and conditions, but it’s also committed to protecting the environment and tackling the threat posed by the climate crisis. Claire Donnelly reports for UNISON Active magazine. It’s a beautiful, strangely misty morning in this rather genteel corner of Harrogate. And as more and more people […]
Higher education staff in Yorkshire and Humberside are walking out this week in a new wave of strikes over inadequate pay. Administrators, cleaners, library, security and catering workers – many of them among the lowest paid in the university sector – are among those taking industrial action. The employees are after a fair pay rise […]
Nearly 100 employees at the National Coal Mining Museum for England (NCMME) have won a pay increase of up to 10.5% following five days of strike action. Workers at the museum include ex-miners who keep the heritage of the coal industry alive for a new generation by giving talks and tours of the underground tunnels […]
NHS staff in Sheffield, whose care and support helps keep the elderly out of hospital and in their own homes, are to take industrial action from next week, over a long-running pay dispute. The care workers employed by the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust have voted to work only the hours set out in their contracts […]
UNISON members who have just completed 5 days of strike action at the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield have just discovered that there is no government imposed pay cap. During pay negotiations the museum’s senior managers told UNISON that they were unable to make an improved pay offer as they are subject to a […]
PSC TRADE UNION SIDE PAY BULLETIN #6 The trade unions have now met with the police employers twice to seek to deliver on the re-opener clause from our current pay agreement. Talks took place on 2 and 9 September 2022. The re-opener clause sets out that: ‘…in the event that a PRRB annual award is […]
A message from Karen Loughlin, Regional Secretary. As many members will know, John Cafferty has retired from UNISON and I became Regional secretary from from August. John wanted to say to you all, “It’s been a fantastic privilege to work for an organisation devoted to helping people and bettering society for all. I have worked […]
Pam Sian is a UNISON Yorkshire & Humberside Assistant Regional Convenor, Branch Secretary, Convenor and Equalities Officer, and Vice-chair of the region’s Black Members’ Group. 50 years since her family were caught up in the expulsion of Asians from Uganda, she recalls the traumatic events. On 4th August 1972, the President of Uganda, Idi Amin, […]
Responding to the publication of the Health and Social Care Committee’s report on workforce burnout and resilience, UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said: “NHS and social care staff are at breaking point. The pandemic’s taken a serious toll on their mental health, and there’s no let-up in sight. “High vacancy rates mean many are struggling […]
The Black Lives Matter movement has rightly focused attention on racism in all its forms. Here feature writer for UNISON Active, Ruth McGuire, assesses the barriers to promotion faced by black people in the region. You’ve heard of the “Glass Ceiling”, well allow me to introduce you to the “Snowy Peaks”. Basically it means the […]
