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12 Feb 20
A 10% pay rise for council staff in England, Wales and Northern Ireland is affordable and would benefit the government through savings on benefits and increased tax revenues, unions have said.
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7 Feb 20
The unions representing more than one million council workers have rejected a 2% pay offer.
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19 Oct 18
NHS Improvement has opened a consultation to examine the value of wholly owned subsidiaries to the health service.
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10 Aug 18
An independent workers’ union will take on the government in a ‘landmark’ legal challenge, which could extend rights for outsourced staff.
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9 Aug 18
Civil service unions have embarked on a legal challenge against the government over a failure to consult on their members’ annual pay rise, it has been announced.
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7 Jun 18
A major trade union has overwhelmingly rejected a proposed National Health Service pay offer, which it says merely continues cuts to wages in real terms.
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9 Apr 18
The local government employee 2% pay offer is now expected to go ahead, after Unison confirmed to PF it had finally accepted the proposed rise.
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23 Mar 18
The GMB union has urged its members to reject the proposed 6.5% pay rise for NHS staff.
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6 Aug 15
Public sector trade unions have labelled government plans to end the ‘check off’ system for collecting subscriptions as “spiteful” and “malicious”.
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15 Jul 15
Government plans to insist strike ballots in key services meet a minimum support threshold will deny millions of public sector workers a voice at work, trade unions have said.
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22 Apr 13
There is mounting criticism from the IMF of George Osborne's austerity programme. But endless moving of the goalposts has obscured the fact that his entire fiscal framework is not fit for purpose