Campaigns

Welcome to the campaigns homepage. UNISON encourages its members to take responsible action and get involved. So check our active campaign issues in the UK and around the globe.

In this section

Current campaigns:

Pay Matters
Fighting for a fair deal for public service workers

Pensions
Ensuring your retirement is not blighted by poverty.

Make local services count
Ensuring services work for everyone.

Equal Pay
UNISON is working hard to ensure all our members get fair treatment and equal pay at work.

Green UNISON
Discover how UNISON is tackling climate change and get ideas about action you can take

Health and safety
UNISON is fighting to make work a safer place.

International
Find out how UNISON is driving the global trade union agenda.

Keep the NHS working
UNISON is calling on the government to stop expanding the role of the private sector in the NHS.

Defend the public library service
UNISON has launched a new campaign to save the nation's libraries

Positively Public
UNISON's campaign to keep public services both public and well-funded.

More campaigns:

Cleaner hospitals
More cleaners equals cleaner hospitals. More on UNISON's action plan.

Promoting home care - the frontline service
Campaign for the best in home care

Agenda for Change
Everything you need to know about the new NHS pay and grading system.

Completing the Picture
The vital role of support staff and managers in the NHS.

Foundation hospitals
Fighting the privatisation of the national health service.

Hands off our housing
Opposing the Large Scale Voluntary Transfer of public housing.

National minimum wage
We believe that all workers should get at least £6.75 an hour and are working to end the different age rates in the national minimum wage.

PFI
Resources concerning the private finance initiative (PFI).

Right to Care
Campaigning for all nursing and personal care to be free at the point of use across the UK.

Work/life balance
Juggling the demands of work with those of care, study, leisure and retirement.

Campaigns UNISON supports
We also lend our support to a number of external campaigns run by like-minded organisations.