With 100,000 Scottish UNISON members joining fellow local government workers in the GMB and UNITE on strike tomorrow (as well as five thousand members of PCS) – it’s also good to see that UNISON Scotland have launched a strike blog. This reports on the General Secretary’s trip north to the picket lines and also a number of Olympic-themed cartoons. Unions generally, and UNISON in ...

Unison has lodged 11,000 equal pay claims at employment tribunals to win thousands of pounds in back pay for health workers, it has been revealed. Unison said it was pressing ahead with the cases after accusing the Government of refusing to negotiate a deal

Hundreds of workers at Argyll and Bute council are striking and working to rule over their single status pay deal. Members of the Unison and Unite unions say that industrial action is the only way to persuade the council to reconsider its imposition of the pay grading structure. Some workers stand to lose between £5,000 and £6,000 a year under the council’s single status deal.

As UNISON Scotland last year backed John McDonnell for Labour Leader, looks like this one is officially the left ticket then....... below from PA: Labour leadership contender Cathy Jamieson has won the backing of party supporters in the trade union Unison, it has been announced. The union's Scottish LabourLink - which represents the 55,000 Unison members affiliated to Labour - said it was sup...

Today sees 200,000 workers in Scotland on strike, members of three different unions, UNISON, GMB and UNITE, across 32 different local authorities The first united strike took place on 20 August, the biggest one-day strike by council workers in Scotland’s history. This is what Ritchie Venton of the Scottish Socialist Party wrote in response to the

The battle for equal and fair pay in local government is coming to a head in Birmingham council. Over 20,000 workers in the GMB, Unison, Unite and Ucatt unions are set to take their second day of strike action on Tuesday of next week. They are fighting the imposition of a rotten single status deal which would see many workers facing devastating pay cuts.

I see that the trades unions are flexing their collective muscle in the people's Republic of Scotland... Local services including schools, bin collections and ferry crossings have been disrupted as thousands of council workers staged a 24 walk-out over pay.  Up to 150,000 comrades of the GMB, Unite and Unison unions joined the dispute across the country after rejecting a 2.5% pay deal ov...

Thousands of Rotherham Council workers could go on strike in a bitter row over a new pay deal. Unison union officials have been negotiating with the council for months over a new pay and grading structure for around 1,000 low paid workers.

Good luck to the UNISON, Unite and GMB members out on a one day strike today in Scotland over a below inflation pay offer (2.5%). Check out the UNISON Scotland blog and the list of events on the main site. This is what UNISON General Secretary, Dave Prentis, had to say on the national issue...

Thousands of council workers in Birmingham are balloting for strike action against the imposition of their single status pay deal. Some of the council’s lowest paid workers are having their wages slashed. Thousands are losing money in some cases up to £35,000 per year. Workers in the Unison, Unite, Ucatt and GMB unions are all being balloted.