UNISON

Camden traffic wardens’ indefinite strike, now six weeks old, demands a pay rise from £12.70 per hour to £15.90

Camden traffic wardens’ strike remains solid, entering its fifth week as this issue goes to press

The higher education union UCU voted at its congress in May to hold a summer reballot

Unison union representatives on the local government National Joint Council (through which, with other unions, they negotiate on pay) met on 11 July following the 23 May-4 July industrial action ballot on pay, which fell foul of the Tories’ 2016 legal requirement for a 50% turnout. Only a small number of branches hit the 50% threshold, many schools got over the threshold and some other councils got over 40%. The Unison NJC reps discussed continuing the dispute, but only representatives from the north west supported the idea. Unite is still consulting members, but action over this year’s pay...

Parking wardens in Camden, north London, began an indefinite strike over pay on Monday 24 July.

The results of Unison's 23 May-4 July industrial action ballot for school and council workers were not good

The newly-elected National Executive Committee (NEC) of the public services union Unison met for the first time on Friday 16 June, straight after the union’s national conference . The NEC election results were mixed but Time For Real Change (TFRC, which AWL is part of) remains the largest group. The first NEC meeting was solely to elect the three members of the Presidential Team, who in Unison’s constitution are the honorary (not employed by the union) principal officers of the NEC to work alongside the General Secretary (the employed principal officer). The TFRC group now has 32 seats, the...

The National Delegate Conference (NDC) of the public services union Unison was in Liverpool, 13-16 June. Local Government members are being balloted. Members in Higher Education and the Environment Agency have balloted and struck, and will be taking more industrial action over the next period. In spring, we saw health workers and ambulance workers striking, and a number of hospitals only just missing the ballot threshold to strike alongside their RCN colleagues. Health members accepted the poor pay 2022-23 deal, rejected by Unite and the RCN, but only following a huge campaign for “accept” by...

It has been a difficult two years in the Unison public service union

Junior doctors in England will strike again on 14-16 June (ending 7am 17 June)