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29/06/2011ADVICE FOR UNISON MEMBERS ON 30 JUNE 2011
22/06/2011JOB LOSSES FEARED AS NHS CONTRACT GOES PRIVATE
21/06/2011PROPOSED CUTS WILL AFFECT PATIENT CARE
09/06/2011GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS FOR OUR PENSION SCHEMES: PAY MORE, GET LESS, WORK LONGER
26/04/2011Myth-busting the Cuts and UNISON's Campaign to protect public sector pensions
14/04/2011UNISON to Ballot for Strike Action at Transport for Greater Manchester
06/04/2011Palestinian Play - Croak the King and a Change in the Weather
04/04/2011What The NHS Means To Me
30/03/2011UNISON considers legal action over transfer of 300 staff on critical ScottishPower contract
29/03/201126 March - UNISON at its Very Best
24/03/2011Coach and Rail Seats available for 26 March.
16/03/2011UNISON Gives Cameron Careers Advice
15/03/2011JOB CUTS IN WIGAN
10/03/2011Hutton Pensions Report Brings Industrial Action Closer
03/03/2011TAMESIDE TRUST WARNED ON SPENDING - UNISON RESPONSE
28/02/2011Pennine Acute NHS Trust Announces 1,000 Job Losses
22/02/2011Cumbria Teaching Assistants to Protest Against Pay Cuts
21/02/2011John Pugh MP for Southport faced with choice on NHS break-up
21/02/2011Protest in Stockport: Become a Glow Worm
21/02/2011Trafford UNISON Members Celebrate Equal Pay Victory
16/02/2011UNISON TO LOBBY GREATER MANCHESTER POLICE AUTHORITY
11/02/2011All Together for Public Services - TUC Mass Leafleting 12th February 2011
10/02/2011MORE DEVESTATION TO CONNEXIONS SERVICE IN MANCHESTER, SALFORD, TAMESIDE & ROCHDALE
28/01/2011UNISON WINS MASSIVE EQUAL PAY VICTORY FOR 900 WOMEN AT BURY COUNCIL
27/01/2011POTENTIAL JOB LOSSES - LIVERPOOL CITY COUNCIL
25/01/2011Private Patients At The Top Of The Queue In The North West
24/01/2011TUC Rally For Young People 29 January
21/01/2011Stockport UNISON Members Hold Silent Protest Over Cuts
21/01/2011Senior Managers Are Given £5,000 As Liverpool Hope University Propose Cuts
20/01/2011Burys Conservative Council Seeks Lib Dem Backing As It Announces Yet More Cuts
18/01/2011Ms Linda McEwan IS QUIDS IN FOLLOWING BRITANNIA PRIZE DRAW
13/01/2011Government Cuts Score Direct Hit on Manchester with 2,000 Jobs Lost
12/01/2011UNISON Rejects Divisive Pay Cut for NHS Staff
12/01/2011Join the UNISON Silent Protest: 17th January 2011 at 6pm at Stockport Town Hall
11/01/2011UNISON Urges Local Authorities to Reconsider Cuts to the Connexions Service in Greater Manchester
22/12/2010Regional Communications Survey - Tell us what you think and you could win £100 of Shopping Vouchers
15/12/2010UNISON Cross Country Giant Christmas Cracker Plea in Sefton
14/12/2010Lancashire PCSO Funding Saves Jobs
08/12/2010UNISON MEMBERS IN NORTH WEST GLOWING MAD OVER TUITION FEE HIKE JOIN PROTEST
07/12/2010NHS Services in Trafford
01/12/2010United Utilities drop offshore contract - UNISON response
29/11/2010UNISON Protest Against the Cuts at Liverpool Royal
25/11/2010Anger at imposed cut to Pay Protection
15/11/2010Greater Manchester Police Cuts - UNISON Response
02/11/2010UNISON Welcomes Withdrawal of Jobs Threat
21/10/2010Spending Cuts - TUC Leafleting of City Centres
20/10/2010Demo at Royal Liverpool Hospital
20/10/2010Job Cuts in Halton
18/10/2010European Health & Safety Week 2010 - Campaign on Safe Maintenance
08/10/2010PRESS RELEASE- RESPONSE TO HUTTON REPORT ON PUBLIC SECTOR PENSIONS
08/10/2010Black History Month - Black Leadership Event - 27 October 2010
08/10/2010David Peace - Special free event at the Working Class Movement Library in Salford 4 November
04/10/2010NW TUC Guide to Fighting Redundancies
27/09/2010TUC Lobby of Parliament - Tuesday October 19th
24/09/2010Industrial Action Suspended at Lancashire County Council
22/09/2010Black History Month
15/09/2010Patients put at risk of infection due to ill NHS staff being forced to work.
16/08/2010Your Chance To Get Involved In Opposing Academy Schools in The North West
06/08/2010Tribunal Backs Hospital Workers' Equal Pay Claim
23/07/2010Lights could go out if Scottish Power jobs are cut
09/07/2010Liverpool Living Book Event - Arabic Culture
02/07/2010School meals staff win 5 year pay battle against Sodexho
01/07/2010UK Workers To Be Made Redundant And Work Moved To India
30/06/2010Blackpool Council staff - Threat of 200 compulsory redundancies
28/06/2010Hundreds of Staff and Public to Protest Against Job Cuts at Calderstones NHS Trust
25/06/2010A Million Voices For The Environment - NW Branch Speaks Out.
23/06/2010Further and Higher Education Members Campaign to Defend Services
17/06/2010National Delegate Conference - Update
09/06/2010Union Chiefs Slam Shock Plans to Privatise Blackburn's Social Care Services
25/05/2010Regional Women's Conference - 17 July 2010 - Final Reminder Deadline 4 June
24/05/2010UNISON NW NEC Member receives Commendation from Chief Constable
13/05/2010New Government - Message from the General Secretary
11/05/2010Bolton Planning Members - Agreement Reached with Council
27/04/2010Bolton UNISON to hold public meeting on the future of housing.
26/04/2010Workers Memorial Day - 28 April 2010
21/04/2010100 Years of UNISON Welfare
31/03/2010UNISON Seeks Assurances Regarding New Royal Liverpool Hospital
30/03/2010Bolton Scores A Century for UNISON Welfare
29/03/2010UNISON Lobby Board of Governors at MMU
26/03/2010Regional Women's Conference on Saturday 17 July 2010, 10.00 am to 4.00 pm at County Hall Preston.
11/03/2010UNISON Projects Public Sector Cuts Into Spotlight
01/03/2010UNISON Members Lobby Bolton Council
25/02/2010Cumbria Health Branch Elects New Young Members Officer
22/02/2010International Women's Day Event - Salford
05/02/2010Britannia Free Prize Draw
02/02/2010UNISON Welfare - Vacancies - Board of Trustees
02/02/2010INNOVATIVE LIVING LIBRARY EVENT TO BE HELD IN HALTON LEA LIBRARY RUNCORN
19/01/2010Rally for Public Services - 30 January 2010, Liverpool
08/01/2010Bury Council's Equal Pay Settlements
06/01/2010The Worst Weather Conditions in over 30 years. Thank Goodness for Public Sector Workers
05/01/2010Grandfather Disabled By Asbestos Related Disease Receives Compensation
04/01/2010UNISON gains more than £3m compensation for North West members personal injuries in 2009
04/01/2010LIVERPOOL AUXILIARY NURSE AND UNISON ACTIVIST AWARDED MBE
23/12/2009Cumbrian Flood Victims Receive Christmas Present From UNISON
16/12/2009UNISON lays on transport for flood affected staff in Workington
09/12/2009Living Library Books
26/11/2009Protesters take campaign to save jobs to the top
16/11/2009Mass Redundancies at Manchester Metropolitan University
16/11/2009Support Grows for Sodexo Workers at Liverpool Women's Hospital
12/11/2009NEW VOICE FOR SCHOOL STAFF GETS ROYAL ASSENT
12/11/2009UNISON WELCOMES DECISION TO KEEP BURNS UNIT ON MERSEYSIDE.
10/11/2009INNOVATIVE LIVING LIBRARY EVENT TO BE HELD IN WITHINGTON AND PRESTWICH
30/10/2009Regional Black Members Committee
23/10/2009INNOVATIVE LIVING LIBRARY EVENT TO BE HELD IN CONGLETON - 29 OCTOBER
19/10/2009October is Black History Month
08/10/2009Trade Union forwards Equal Pay settlement offers worth £9 million to 900 members.
07/10/2009INNOVATIVE LIVING LIBRARY EVENT TO BE HELD IN CREWE
07/10/2009UNISON TAKES CHILLING MESSAGE TO TORY PARTY CONFERENCE
05/10/2009UNISON HAILS LIBRARY VICTORY FOR THE WIRRAL
24/09/2009SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT IN FIGHT FOR EQUAL PAY
28/08/2009BURY COUNCIL WORKERS FACE FURTHER CUTS IN TAKE HOME PAY
17/08/2009Bury Council's Decision to Appeal is a Discrace
14/08/2009Rochdale Lifeguard Receives £50,000 in compensation
06/08/2009Secretary receives new kidney for 50th birthday
05/08/2009Talented Girls' Football Team Kick Off The Season In Style Thanks To Wyre UNISON
27/07/2009UNISON Living Book Event - 21 July
27/07/2009NW Young Members at the Tolpuddle Festival 17 - 19 July
24/07/2009Cleaners Conference 2009
21/07/2009PCSO Swaps Pounding the Street for Prestigious Award
20/07/2009Discounted Tickets for Ice Skating at the Altrincham Ice Dome
16/07/2009Advice to UNISON members on Swine Flu (H1N1)
10/07/2009Personal Injury Claims through Thompsons Solicitors
07/07/2009Bury Council Job Cuts Would Be A Discrace
06/07/2009Pay Justice for Women Workers in Equal Pay win Against Bury council
26/06/2009UNISON's Living Library - Monday 29th June
22/06/2009Terminal Cancer Sufferer Wins £205,000 in Asbestos Claim
15/06/2009Innovative Living Library Events
28/05/2009Cuts in front line staff putting children's welfare at risk
27/05/2009School Support Staff - New National Conditions
19/05/2009The Future of Nursing and Midwifery - Have Your Say
15/05/2009Union Friday to Defeat the BNP
14/05/2009The City's Biggest Trade Union Urges High Turnout in Euro Elections to Stop the Racist BNP
14/05/2009European Elections: Make your Vote Count on 4 June
12/05/2009UNISON Anger at Jump in North West Councillors' Expenses
12/05/2009Sculptures Commemorating Workers Killed By Their Job Unveiled at Manchester Memorial
03/04/2009Joss v Cumbria County Council Decision - UNISON Reaction
03/04/2009Speaking up for school staff!
31/03/2009Bolton University condemned as being immoral in row over pay
25/03/2009In Touch - UNISON North West Activist Newsletter
16/03/2009Stockport Council Gives Employees Extra Day Off
09/03/2009UNISON Welfare Joint Regional Seminar 11/12 July
27/02/2009Cutbacks at South Ribble Council will do nothing to help the Local Economy
26/02/2009Centrica Should Use Profits To Cut Out Bills
18/02/2009University of Cumbria - Job Losses
16/02/2009UIA Insurance. Your Chance to Win a £500 Shopping Voucher
12/02/2009UNISON Report on the Greater Manchester Pension Fund 2008-09
12/02/2009Liverpool '08: A fresh start?
30/01/2009MP goes back to school to have a go at doing the jobs of two support staff workers
29/01/2009UNISON Welcomes Settlement
29/01/2009UNISON Withdraws Threat of Industrial Action at Troubled Carlisle Academy
29/01/2009Free Tickets to Watch the Manchester Phoenix Ice Hockey Club
29/01/2009Wirral Libraries: Reprieve
18/01/2009Would you like to be a UNISON Living Library Book?
09/01/2009Commission For Social Care Inspection Praises UNISON Involvement in Stockport
08/01/2009Bury Council Dismissals Withdrawn To Allow Union Talks
22/12/2008UNISON Cleaners Awards and Conference - 16/17 February 2009
18/12/2008Pupils Snap up top prizes in Liverpool 08 Schools Photography Contest
18/12/2008Union Slams Wirral Council For Trying to Silence its Workforce
17/12/2008Health Pay Decision - UNISON Reaction
15/12/2008Korean Health Trade Unionists Visit North West
01/12/2008Sterile Services Climb Down
25/11/2008UNISON Calls Off Meat Strike
21/11/2008Meat Hygiene Inspectors Vote to Strike
06/11/2008Increase in NHS Violence Shameful Says UNISON
31/10/2008Hamilton Abuse Adds Impetus to UNISON Call to Clamp Down on Racism at Work
29/10/2008Priory Staff to Consider Industrial Action
24/10/2008Bolton University Staff Denied Pay Rise
24/10/2008Women urged to sign up to No Pay Day protest letter to Peter Mandelson
20/10/2008Keep the North West a Nick Griffin Free Zone
17/10/2008Wigan Homecare Services in Crisis following Privatisation
14/10/2008MP Praises Council Staff and Shuns Privatisation
25/09/2008Stockport UNISON Threaten Council With Legal Challenge
25/09/2008UNISON Recognised by Alternative Futures Group
16/09/2008Consumer inflation rises to 4.7% - UNISON Reaction
09/09/2008Salford MP Sees Real value of Council Care Workers
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