Removing this essential service will create new barriers to learning, participation, and employment at the college, undermining the ability of many to continue their courses or sustain their roles. We call on Milton Keynes College to halt the closure plans and work with staff, students, UNISON, and the wider community to find a fair, sustainable alternative that protects access to childcare.   UNISON will keep in touch as the campaign develops

Northern Trains is becoming part of a publicly owned Great British Railways, which is good news for passengers and rail workers.  But many rail workers are being left out of Great British Railways because they are outsourced to private companies.  Outsourcing companies cut costs to boost profits, resulting in worse pay and conditions for staff and a worse service for passengers. Northern Trains currently outsources station staff, cleaners and security guards to Carlisle, ISS and Amulet.  Carlisle is owned by the Tory donor and tax exile Lord Ashcroft and its treatment of staff is typical of the worst of outsourcing firms. ·         Imposing low pay: RMT members at Carlisle have been in a long-running dispute because the company won’t negotiate their pay, choosing to impose the minimum possible pay rates it can get away with. Our members have been forced to take industrial action in the form of strikes and refusing to scan tickets to try to get a negotiated pay rise.  ·         Bullying staff for taking legal strike action: Since the dispute began, Carlisle managers have tried to bully and intimidate our members into submission. Carlisle keep many of our members on zero hours contracts and threaten to cut their shifts or their holiday if our members take legal strike action.  ·         Passing the buck: Carlisle and Northern keep passing the buck between them, each blaming the other for the dispute, while hoping our members will be starved into giving up.  This treatment brings shame on Northern Trains.

Reform UK have pledged to introduce a Great Repeal Bill to remove the Employment Rights Act 2025 and the Renters’ Rights Act 2025. Unions, workers, and renters have long campaigned for these essential new rights. Reform are threatening to snatch them away. They have also pledged to repeal the Equality Act 2010, the law that stops you from being discriminated against at work. With these plans, Reform wants to rig the system in favour of their corporate backers. Every ‘regulation’ they hate are hard fought for rights that give working people a voice and protect us at work. Axing workers’ and renters’ rights won’t cut our bills or increase our pay. It would slash standards and make us all worse off. Our message to Reform - and to every parliamentarian - is simple: commit now to opposing the Great Repeal Bill.

These proposed cuts mean people losing their livelihoods in a higher education sector already facing a jobs crisis, where alternative employment is scarce and careers built over many years can be destroyed overnight. For students, the consequences are overcrowded classes, delayed feedback, reduced support, and mounting pressure on remaining staff. The closure of Southend would also be a devastating loss for students, local communities, and access to higher education in the region. All of this undermines the value of an Essex degree, and damages the university’s reputation. Essex is a public institution with a public mission. Its future should not be decided without accountability, evidence, or meaningful negotiation. We call on University of Essex senior management and Council to: • Stop compulsory redundancies at all campuses • Halt the closure of the Southend campus • Return to meaningful negotiations with staff and their unions   The more people who sign this petition, the clearer it becomes that Essex staff are not standing alone — and that management must come back to the table.

Workers have called for formal union recognition so staff can negotiate pay, terms and working conditions collectively with Second Step management. While meetings have been productive, recognition has yet to be granted, leaving workers without a meaningful, organised voice in decisions that directly affect their livelihoods and the quality of services provided. We call on Second Step to recognise our union formally, commit to fair and inflation-reflective pay, and address the widening pay gap between Second Step roles and equivalent NHS and AWP positions. Fair pay and fair representation are essential not only for staff, but for the stability and future of the services our communities rely on. When workers are respected, services are stronger. We would like to highlight Kelvin Blake's conflicting position; on one hand, he is a councillor representing constituents who are struggling to buy food and access housing as their pay is not meeting the rate of inflation, and on the other hand he is the Chair of the Board of Second Step and his silence is deafening. As a Labour councillor his government have bought in the Employment Rights Bill – which among other things provides improved facility time for union reps and lifts many constraints on union activity – and yet Kelvin is silent about the industrial action happening in his constituency. This silence is palpable as Union reps struggle to engage with Second Step leadership in meaningful negotiations. We say to Kelvin: many of us are your constituents and we are asking you to make a statement in support of our campaign. This would be particularly impactful in your position as Chair of the Board. Stand with Second Step workers and support fair pay, fair conditions and union recognition. Sign to show your solidarity with our campaign and to support our message to Kelvin.  

Wirral Evolutions requires high qualifications of staff to protect the quality, safety, and sustainability of support for vulnerable people now and in the future. Fair, equal pay ensures skilled professionals are valued, retained, and able to deliver the high-quality service that clients depend on.

For almost 50 young workers, in such a demanding industry and facing the bleakest outlook they’ve faced in years, to take decisive strike action in this way is profoundly brave and unprecedented. Support them in their effort to improve their workplace in order to make it workable and liveable while we all struggle through the depths of an affordability crisis. 

UCU members have been standing up against the continual cutting and restructuring of the last several years which has significantly damaged the University’s international standing, the quality of education of our students, and staff’s collective mental health. The pace of change is both unnecessary for achieving management’s stated goals of making the University financially stable and unsustainable. Staff cannot be expected to continue to carry out ever-increasing workloads.  It is also important because aggressive union-busting tactics such as what Sheffield’s management are proposing threaten all workers' ability to stand up to unjustified cuts and unjust management actions, now and in the future. An attack on one is an attack on all.  Please sign our petition and, if you can, contribute £5 (or more if you can!) to our fighting fund to help us ensure our members are supported through the holiday season and the months ahead.

Edinburgh Napier University has moved forward with up to 70 redundancies relating to academic and academic related staff, which the Educational Institute of Scotland believe will have an adverse impact on the academic quality and coverage which may have a negative impact on the quality of education students would receive. The Staff cuts would also place additional burdens on an already stretched workforce at Edinburgh Napier University.   The EIS University Lecturers Association condemns the failure of the university to provide a guarantee of no compulsory redundancies. Management at ENU have refused to take this critical step, instead continuing with plans that place dedicated, long serving and hard-working staff at risk. These job cuts are short-sighted and will only increase the workload on remaining staff, leading to a decline in course provision and a diminished student experience. The EIS reiterates its call for the university to halt their cuts agenda and prioritise the well-being of their staff and students using the financial reserves that both universities have stashed away. We are also aware that the university are not, according to their published finances, in financial crisis. They have in fact got a very healthy reserve. We also do not believe that the process has been transparent, fair, or proper.

The Welsh and UK governments need to protect Welsh Industry, and: • Invest in our industries and cut electricity prices so we can compete with clean, modern technology • Stop trade undercutting our industries, whether Trump’s ungodly tariffs or cheap imports • Make sure our home-grown industries supply UK infrastructure and procurement • Listen to us! Industries are changing and workers know best how to handle change This is more urgent than ever because there is a big new threat to Welsh industrial jobs:  Nigel Farage and his billionaire buddies. TUC analysis shows all parties need to step up and commit to the demands above. But it also shows that Reform's current plans to slash climate upgrade investments would threaten 40,000 industrial jobs in Wales alone. That's 40,000 good industrial jobs in auto, chemicals and steel on the line, from Newport to Deeside to Pembroke. Reform's policies would take a wrecking ball to Welsh industry. Reform is the party of slash and burn economics. Nigel Farage has promised to slash UK public investment by £225 billion – investment that our industries desperately need. Why are jobs at risk in my factory? Because of Farage’s buddy Trump and his tariffs. Farage doesn't speak for us – he’s fighting for his mate Trump, for hedge funds and speculators who profit from insecurity. Reform have promised to deregulate and to scrap workers' rights. That's an agenda that serves the billionaires at the expense of workers. What needs to happen now? I’m proud of Wales. I’m proud of our industries.  It’s time for us to take our future into our own hands. Let’s stop site closures and futureproof our workplaces.  Let’s protect Welsh industry and secure decent jobs for the next generation. To do that, we need to push Westminster and the Senedd to deliver on investment, trade, procurement and worker voice. We need all parties to commit to Save Welsh Industry. And we need to highlight the massive threat posed by the current policies of Reform & the Conservatives. If you work in Welsh industry and want to secure our jobs for the future: join the fight to Save Welsh Industry and sign this petition. -- Pam mae hyn yn bwysig nawr? Mae angen i Lywodraeth Cymru a Llywodraeth y DU ddiogelu diwydiant Cymru drwy wneud y canlynol: • Buddsoddi yn ein diwydiannau a gostwng prisiau trydan er mwyn i ni allu cystadlu drwy ddefnyddio technoleg glân a modern. • Atal cwmnïau tramor rhag ceisio cwtogi prisiau a thanseilio ein diwydiannau, boed hynny drwy dariffau cythreulig Trump neu fewnforio cynnyrch rhad. • Sicrhau bod ein diwydiannau cynhenid yn cyflenwi gofynion seilwaith a chaffael yn y DU. • Gwrando arnom ni! Mae diwydiannau'n newid a gweithwyr sy’n gwybod orau sut i ddelio â newid Mae angen gwneud hyn ar fyrder oherwydd bod bygythiad mawr newydd ar y gorwel i swyddi diwydiannol yng Nghymru, a’i enw yw Nigel Farage. Mae Farage yn grediniol y gall ennill etholiad y Senedd ym mis Mai. Bydd ef a'i gyfeillion cyfoethog yn dinistrio diwydiant Cymru. Mae Reform yn blaid sy’n arddel economeg chwalu a chwerthin. Mae Nigel Farage eisiau cyflwyno Thatcheriaeth ar steroids i Gymru. Mae wedi addo tocio buddsoddiad cyhoeddus i’r bôn - ond mae hwn yn fuddsoddiad sydd wir ei angen ar ein diwydiannau.  Pam ma swyddi mewn perygl yn fy ffatri? Oherwydd un o gyfeillion pennaf Farage, sef Trump a'i dariffau. Dydy Farage ddim yn siarad drosom ni - ei flaenoriaethau ef yw ei ffrind mawr Trump, y cronfeydd buddsoddi arian, a hapfasnachwyr sy'n elwa o ansicrwydd. Bydd Reform yn dadreoleiddio, yn agor y drws i’r biliwnyddion, ac yn cael gwared ar undebau llafur. Os bydd Farage yn dod i rym, gallwch ddweud ffarwel wrth hawliau gweithwyr. Beth sydd angen digwydd nawr? Dw i'n falch o Gymru. Dwi’n falch o’n diwydiannau.  Mae'n bryd i ni gymryd ein dyfodol i’n dwylo ein hunain. Gadewch i ni stopio safleoedd rhag cau a diogelu ein gweithleoedd at y dyfodol.  Gadewch i ni ddiogelu diwydiant Cymru a sicrhau swyddi teilwng i'r genhedlaeth nesaf. I wneud hynny, mae angen inni atal Reform rhag dod i rym yng Nghymru. Ac mae angen i ni bwyso ar San Steffan a'r Senedd i gyflawni - o ran buddsoddi, masnach, caffael a llais y gweithiwr. Os ydych chi'n gweithio yn niwydiant Cymru ac eisiau sicrhau ein swyddi ar gyfer y dyfodol: ymunwch â’r frwydr i Achub Diwydiant Cymru a llofnodi'r ddeiseb hon.

Dumfries and Galloway is consulting the public on a range of proposals. In the past 16 years, the Council has cut £13 million from its budget and is now seeking to cut a further £35 million in the next three years. Most of these cuts are aimed at the Education Department. Proposals include consultation on the closure of 58 nursery, primary and secondary schools, axing the instrumental music service, and cuts to essential education workers. Years of under-resourcing have already created workload, pupil equity, violence and aggression issues that are unsustainable in schools. Over 40% of learners now have some form of additional support need. The introduction of the presumption of mainstreaming and the failure to appropriately resource this in schools has led to an increase in violence and aggression against teachers and between pupils. If realised, the recent budget cuts would have ramifications for the quality of education in Dumfries and Galloway and will hit some of the poorest children, the hardest. We are seriously concerned about the potential for the widening of the poverty-related attainment gap in Dumfries and Galloway.

Britain’s buses are old, inaccessible and unsafe. Except in London. Why? London buses have two or three sets of doors to make getting on and off really quick, safe, and accessible for everyone. If you’re a disabled user or parent with a buggy, getting on the bus, and finding space to sit, can often be impossible.  We believe buses can be made more accessible with these changes: • two sets of doors for boarding/alighting • Separate dedicated places for wheelchair users and parents with buggies • Eye level displays for wheelchair users and bell buttons within easy access • Seats at bus stops to provide a rest space for passengers who struggle to stand • Automatic boarding ramps and back up manual ramps if not working • Reinstating bus conductors • A permanent board of representative passengers and user groups to co-design all aspects of bus design and the bus reform process with the Mayor London buses aren’t this bad, and neither are buses across the rest of the world. Why are we stuck with such poor quality buses? If London can do it, it’s time we got the first class buses we deserve.