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UNISON Northern retweeted
Budget response: Much to welcome – but the government needs 'to move beyond small fixes'
“To improve ordinary people’s everyday lives, the government needs to deal with the fundamental causes of the miseries so many face." says @AndreaEganGS
🔗 unison.org.uk/news/2026/10/u…
UNISON Northern retweeted
📢✊ Recognition alone isn't enough. Our public services need investment.
At our #WeShowUp statue unveiling in Westminster, UNISON president James Anthony and head of nursing Louie Horne set out what workers need from the Budget.
Our public services need a bailout.
Solidarity from @Northernunison to all the Leeds healthcare assistants on strike for fair pay.
Your action shows the power of standing together. Stay strong and you can win!
"You cannot run hospitals without these healthcare assistants" ✊
As theatre assistants in Leeds continue their strike to be paid fairly for duties they carry out, @unisontheunion assistant general secretary Clare Williams has a clear message for Leeds Teaching Hospitals 📢
Christine Jackson, Branch Secretary, Newcastle City makes fantastic speech supporting migrant workers and why Unity is so important
Clare Williams, UNISON assistant general secretary, bringing message of hope over hate, Solidarity and Unity to Newcastle Unites anti-racism rally today.
@unisontheunion
UNISON Northern retweeted
Public sector pay has stagnated for 16 years.
The budget next week has to deliver the funding our services need and the pay the workers who keep the country running deserve.
'Without public service workers, this country would stop running'
@AndreaEganGS on @SkyNews called on the government to use next week's Budget to deliver the funding our services need and the fair pay workers deserve.
Sign the petition:
🔗 unsn.uk/we-show-up-petition
#WeShowUp
The wealthy should pay their fair share.
Workers create the wealth in our society, not tax-dodging billionaires.
🔥 Watch our assistant general secretary Clare Williams clash with @NickFerrariLBC on why the super rich should pay their fair share and help fund public services.
UNISON Northern retweeted
🏆 UNISON One Team Awards are now open
This #OneTeamDay 💙 help celebrate the NHS support staff who make a difference every day.
Nominate a colleague who deserves recognition and they could win a £500 voucher!
unsn.uk/oneteamawards
ALT UNISON One Team awards. Nominate a non-clinical support staff colleague and they could win a £500 voucher unison.org.uk/oneteam
UNISON Northern retweeted
To the chancellor @JohnHealey_MP
Labour MPs, councillors and members backed our #WeShowUp campaign at Labour conference for greater investment in public services.
Now we need you to show up and turn that support into action in the budget.
ALT Photo of wall with signatures from Labour MPs, councillors and members. Message to the chancellor @JohnHealy_MP
UNISON Northern retweeted
"Unions must organise where people are, in workplaces and online."
UNISON assistant general secretary @clarenorthern2 at the @campaignlab_ Labour conference fringe on collaborating and campaigning effectively for working people.
#Lab26 #organising #campaignlab
UNISON Northern retweeted
This is what solidarity looks like.
#FairVisasNow #Lab26
UNISON Northern retweeted
📢✊ Migrant workers must not be made scapegoats for decades of failure to invest in public services.
At #Lab26, @AndreaEganGS called on the government to drop plans that could force migrant workers to wait 15 years for settlement.
#FairVisasNow ⬇️
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ALT Migrant workers protest at Labour conference over 'broken promises'
UNISON Northern retweeted
🚨 NEW: A report from @Cmmonwealth has found that over £6 billion in profit was taken from public services by outsourcing companies last year.
That sum would pay for 300,000 additional adult social care workers to look after Britain’s vulnerable.
UNISON Northern retweeted
Public service workers show up for us 💙
After years of underfunding, cuts and privatisation, public services need urgent investment to recover.
Now it's the government's turn to show up for public services.
Add your name to our petition: 🔗 buff.ly/MKqPmgp
#WeShowUp
ALT Care worker hugging older person. Do you want better public services? Sign the petition
UNISON Northern retweeted
Years of underfunding, staff shortages and outsourcing are pushing public services to breaking point.
Clare Williams on @LBC on why this year's budget must invest in public services, improve staffing levels and bring services back in-house.
#WeShowUp #InsourceNow
UNISON Northern retweeted
📢✊ Public service workers have been holding our services together for years. Enough is enough.
They cannot keep being asked to do more with less.
They show up for us every day. Now tell the government: show up for them.
Sign the petition ⬇️
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#WeShowUp
In reponse to Sunderland Council pulling funding for Show Racism the Red Card
"The decision by Sunderland City Council to withdraw funding risks undermining efforts to challenge prejudice and discrimination at a time when racism at work is on the rise." buff.ly/QVLaf5u
Today we find out the future of the Save Our STANLEY's Campaign in South Shields. We are outside the Town Hall to show the strength of feeling to keep the centre's open.
The council is about to meet to make a decision on the proposal to close all 10 STANLEY's affecting 100 staff
UNISON Northern retweeted
'Teaching assistants, cleaners and all other school support staff are long overdue a better deal,’ says UNISON general secretary Andrea Egan on reports the government will let schools use money saved from support staff pension funds to pay for the teachers’ pay award.
ALT Andrea Egan: School support staff overdue a better deal "Setting worker against worker is never the answer. "Teaching assistants, cleaners and all other support staff are long overdue a better deal. Any money saved from the local government pension scheme must go towards improving their pay and conditions. "”This plan also raises practical concerns about how any redistribution of pensions will work. Schools don’t pay the same pension contributions across the country. "Some could be left without any budget savings because their employer contributions won’t actually fall."
UNISON Northern retweeted
Congratulations to Wendy Aitman, @NorthernUNISON learning rep, for winning a @The_TUC rep award at #TUC2026
Watch Wendy talk about her work as a learning rep and what it means for her and for UNISON members
youtu.be/kzm-s7NFti4?si=H0Nj…
