Outsourcing means slashing jobs and pensions, low pay, overwork and insecure positions. This would ruin the education and services for students at UEL. Phase 1 is the Finance, IT, People & Culture and Estates & Facilities (or Infrastructure) departments. If they get away with this, phase 2 could be coming next. Already mergers have cut academic jobs. Everyone, except UEL executives, is under the axe.   UEL bosses are cutting academic jobs and have signed a contract with companies, such as Hexaware and CBRE, to outsource multiple services. This would mean fewer jobs, worse services for students and staff and courses under threat. An attack we all have an interest in resisting. The planned outsourcing and cuts must be stopped. They are an existential threat to UEL, threatening to leave this significant Newham employer as a gutted shell and to undermine an educational institution that has served East London, and students internationally, as the "People's University" since in 1898.

NCA have engaged an alternative private employer, ’NHS Professionals’, to cover shifts which means staff that assist the Trust in covering staff shortages are now seeing a significant drop in pay as well as being able to avoid employer pension contributions. NHS Professionals last year posted pre tax profits of a staggering £11.4M.     Theatres across the Trust which cover Salford, Oldham, Rochdale and Bury are heavily reliant on covering shifts to meet safe staffing requirements or critically ill patients.  The specialist nature of the care required in theatres means most shifts are picked up by staff already working on the unit.     UNISON members are calling on the Trust to be given the right to choose whether to work the shift as Overtime or NHSP Bank rates. This choice would allow staff to be paid the correct pay for the crucial duties they are undertaking and no less for additional work they carry out. The worrying reliance on a private entity in the NHS is forcing UNISON members into financial hardship. After over a year of trying to resolve this issue with the Trust UNISON members have now voted 99% in favour of strike action. Please support us sign and share

With the right industrial strategy, investment in clean technologies and learning from workers' expertise, Britain can safeguard hundreds of thousands of jobs.  We won’t accept more communities being gutted by industrial decline. It’s time for workers and communities to stand together and demand government invests to future-proof our industries, protect good jobs and make our workplaces cleaner and more competitive. Sign up to Repower British Industry to hear more about the campaign and how you can get involved.

Civil servants deserve payroll and HR services they can trust. Join PCS in demanding that these services are brought back in-house. 

In maternity services across Wales, midwives report overwhelming workloads, increasing complexity of care, and concerns about their ability to provide the safe, personalised care every woman deserves. Yet many hardworking graduates struggle to secure the permanent jobs they trained for. Investment in education must be matched by investing in jobs. As a union, midwives are calling on ministers to: 1. Guarantee up to full time employment opportunities for newly qualified healthcare graduates. The Welsh Government should work with health boards to ensure newly qualified healthcare professionals have clear pathways into permanent full time employment if that is what they want.  2. Fund safe staffing levels in maternity services. Every maternity unit should have enough staff on every shift to provide safe, compassionate and personalised care.  3. Publish transparent workforce plans. Families deserve to know how many midwives and maternity support workers are needed, how many are in post and what action is being taken to address shortages.  4. Retain and support the existing workforce. Improved wellbeing, flexible working and manageable workloads are needed to keep experienced staff in maternity services.  5. Link training investment to workforce need. If Wales trains healthcare professionals to meet future demand, funded posts must be available so those skills are not lost.

Bishop Auckland Hospital is part of the County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust. In recent years various part of its services have been downgraded. The latest proposal is to close Ward 7, which provides speciality frailty care ward. Patients are overwhelmingly older, have been referred there following a fall or serious respiratory condition, and spend between 1-4 weeks in order to be able to then move home independently. As well as cutting needed beds the proposed closure is part of wider downgrading of services. These services play a vital role in the care Bishop Auckland Hospital is able to provide.

1. Witness Liaison Officers at South Yorkshire Police earn £5,000 LESS than West Yorkshire Witness Liaison Officers, despite doing the same job. In short, people who deliver a vital and difficult service are being paid less than those in identical roles only 45mins up the M1. 2. Witness Liaison Officers provide support and assistance to victims and witnesses throughout the criminal justice process, often speaking with and supporting highly vulnerable individuals including rape, domestic and child abuse victims.  3. South Yorkshire Police admit Witness Liaison Officers in West and South Yorkshire do the same job, yet South Yorkshire still refuse to accept that the pay rates for the role are too low, or that their job evaluation system is broken, well, broken for those at the bottom, not those in Senior Command who use a different job evaluation system similar to the one in West Yorkshire. The people who provide support to some of the most vulnerable at an incredibly difficult time deserve better. Please sign and share your support for Witness Liaison Officers. 

Gardeners are the heart of The Royal Parks. We use our considerable skills, knowledge, and experience to keep these spaces looking beautiful for millions of visitors every year. We deserve to be paid a decent wage for our hard work. Fair pay and basic dignity is the best way to protect the future of the parks we all love.

For many patients, hydrotherapy provides a safe, low-impact form of rehabilitation that cannot easily be replicated elsewhere. Now it is slated for closure. The knock-on impact for patients, their families and the wider community means that many will experience inferior treatment or lengthy journeys, just to carry on with their treatment. GMB members working in the Hydrotherapy pool and within the wider therapy services deeply value their role and the meaningful care they are able to provide to their patients by using this facility. The union is appalled by the decision to close the pool, which has caused significant concern for staff and threatens job insecurity. We are equally concerned about the lack of proper consultation. Please support this important campaign.

Gordon Lyons was appointed Communities Minister – a role which covers arts and culture – in February 2024.    The Arts Council Northern Ireland provided a 10-year plan for the arts between 2024-2034, which the Communities Minister chose not to sign off.   In 2025, the ACNI stated that “The arts budget continues to present significant challenges to the sector and to the Arts Council’s ability to meet the needs of artists, arts organisations and their audiences.”   In 2025, the Minister promised an Arts Policy. On 3 July 2025 the Committee for Communities also requested that the Minister create an arts and culture strategy and secure proper funding for the arts.  This has not taken place.   A budget of £21.27 million for 2026/27 is the level identified by ACNI in February 2026 as necessary to stabilise core infrastructure, strengthen support for individual artists, improve regional distribution and enhance organisational capacity.   At just £5.07 per head in 2023/24, Northern Ireland Arts Council (ACNI) receives the lowest per capita arts council funding of anywhere in the UK - less than half that of the second-lowest, Wales.    A real-terms cut of almost 40% to Arts Council Northern Ireland funding over the past 10 years has deeply impacted artists, producers and communities.  Further info here: Save the Arts: Lobby Stormont

Over the last few months, Reform councillors in both Staffordshire and Warwickshire have attacked the visibility and representation of LGBTQ+ people in council libraries. In Staffordshire, library staff have been told that “we will not be celebrating Pride in any form”. They have been instructed to remove displays, halt events and activities, and cease any Pride-related communications. In Warwickshire, the Reform leader has said that county council libraries “have been promoting contested gender ideology”. He went on to say that issues had been raised with him, such as staff wearing rainbow lanyards and libraries having a book that “would give out the wrong messages” and potentially be “dangerous to young children”. The Reform leadership has promised “a comprehensive policy” for libraries and other council-owned public spaces “to combat this trend”.  Inclusive libraries matter. Research found that 81% of LGBT+ respondents oppose restrictions on the promotion of Pride events in public libraries.* It also found that nearly three-quarters (72%) believe withdrawing public funding from Pride events would negatively affect LGBT+ people, with reduced feelings of inclusion and belonging and increased concerns about discrimination among the most cited impacts.  We believe that libraries should be inclusive spaces that help to educate, inform and entertain people of every age, gender, sexuality, background and political belief. They are here to help open minds, not close them. *LGBT+ results are based on a cross-break of respondents within the nationally representative UK sample and are not a standalone representative sample of LGBT+ adults

Around 600 employees are set to be hit by the plans, which will see some workers being forced to commute to Manchester and Leeds to keep their jobs, while other roles will be cut entirely.  The jobs being impacted includes work from across BT’s remit, with everyone from 999 callers to Openreach workers. One particular group of employees seriously affected by the announcement are Relay UK Workers, who enable deaf and hard of hearing people to communicate over the phone. This highly skilled, specialised work is vital for enabling communication for deaf and hard-of-hearing people, and the CWU fear that this may be the beginning of the end for a service which has provided a lifeline for thousands of people across the country. The union’s call to keep these jobs in Liverpool has been widely supported across Liverpool, and has been backed by local councillors, MPs and Liverpool City Region Combined Authority, whose mayor Steve Rotheram has written to BT urging them to reconsider their decision. Decisions like this should always consider the real impact on frontline employees and their families.  Changes such as redundancy or relocation can cause distress, uncertainty and disruption. These employees work hard every day and are key to BT’s success. The CWU believe that it is economically viable for BT to maintain a presence in Liverpool and that is the best outcome for staff and service users.