Martin Cullen
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‘We now have the absurd situation of government departments ringing schools days before term begins, telling them to prepare for potential building closures’
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Punishing children to ‘encourage’ parents is wrong and all politicians should reject any policy that’s proven to impoverish families
UNISON is ‘deeply concerned’ about the impact of the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill as it gets its second reading in parliament today
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Every year, hundreds of meetings on pay take place in FE colleges all across the country, which is expensive and time-consuming
![Lisa Nandy at 2023 Local government conference](https://www.unison.org.uk/content/uploads/2023/06/DSC8870-235x130.jpg)
Lisa Nandy says Labour has been ‘inspired’ by UNISON’s work on insourcing, bringing services back into local authority control
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Black workers in local government face multiple forms of discrimination, including bullying, racial harassment and a lack of opportunities for promotion
![Glen Williams speaking at 2023 LG conference](https://www.unison.org.uk/content/uploads/2023/06/DSC8357-235x130.jpg)
Local government conference opens in Liverpool with a refusal ‘to be made poorer by this government’
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It’s impossible to review UNISON’s year and do justice to all the amazing things UNISON’s activists and members get up to. So, we haven’t tried. Instead here are 8 pretty important, awesome things we’ve done together.
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People’s Assembly-organised march will take place as the Conservative government pledges extra money to Northern Ireland to gain DUP support
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This is the full text of Jeremy Corbyn’s speech to UNISON’s national delegate conference on 23 June 2017