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.

These care homes have been run down and neglected over many years, but they are fantastic buildings, staffed by carers with decades of experience and they are the beloved homes to their residents and an important part of their communities.  UNISON Derbyshire does not believe care should be privatised or marketed and we call for these homes to remain in the public sector.  The homes at risk are: Briar Close, Borrowash Castle Court, Swadlincote The Grange, Eckington Lacemaker Court, Long Eaton The Leys, Ashbourne New Bassett House, Shirebrook Rowthorne, Swanwick Thomas Colledge House, Bolsover.

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. 

Transport for Greater Manchester, West Midlands Combined Authority and West Yorkshire Combined Authority have signed up to the ‘Passenger Transport Forum’ bargaining agreement with UNISON and Unite. The employers turn up to meetings but refuse to negotiate over pay, claiming they are ‘tied’ to what is agreed by other employers in a separate bargaining unit. The workers have been offered the latest in a long line of real-terms pay cuts instead of a pay rise that was due back in April. Employees of local authorities and fire and rescue services can negotiate their pay, but this right is being denied to transport workers, who have been left with no alternative to strike action. These workers are employed in a wide variety of roles from sometimes challenging customer facing roles in transport interchanges, those with safety critical responsibilities such as engineers, through to those planning routes and providing customer information. All our members are skilled and committed to providing the best for the travelling public of these areas ensuring things run smoothly now and that transport networks are fit for purpose far into the future. To tackle the cost-of-living crisis and climate breakdown we need affordable, reliable, safe and convenient public transport. That can only be delivered by workers on decent pay and whose right to bargain is respected. Behind the three employers stand the three regional Mayors of Greater Manchester, the West Midlands and West Yorkshire – Andy Burnham, Richard Parker and Tracy Brabin. They all say they want improved public transport. They all say they support workers’ rights to negotiate their pay and conditions through their unions.

PCSOs are the feet on the beat. They are police staff who serve as a direct link between the local community and the police. They deter anti-social behaviour, provide a visible police presence on the streets, gather intelligence and work with partners like schools and businesses to keep communities safe. Cheshire Police say this work will be carried out by other officers who are already over-stretched. UNISON fears this will result in a huge cut to police presence and boots on the ground in our communities, putting the safety of our local area at risk. Moreover, there will be a significant reduction in vital civic engagement programmes ran in schools which help our children understand the importance of being responsible members of the community. What do residents of Cheshire think? “You offer a key point of contact for issues and concerns and support us with events, ongoing issues and key sign posting to external agencies when needed. Without your support & knowing the community so well, would leave a huge gap in communication with the local community and connection to further support. You know a lot of the families & have built up so many positive relationships which is crucial to gaining positive outcomes at the earliest opportunity.”  - Education Family Support Worker in a Cheshire school “The PCSO and the mini police programme has helped me to increase my confidence along with team building skills and has shaped more creative opportunities for all of us as a group and will inspire generations ahead. So please carry on with the programme and inspiring children to be responsible citizens of our local community.”  - Year 5 primary school student, Cheshire West “After living next door to neighbours who have been committing ASB and other crimes over the last two years our PCSO has been invaluable. They have kept regularly updated with progress on the case and worked very closely with the housing trust in helping us to escalate the case when needed. They have reassured us and given us faith in the police with their actions.” - Cheshire West resident 

Will you support these care workers taking action against Lancashire's Reform Council to fight for residents and keep their homes open?

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.

Theatre assistants at Leeds Teaching Hospital trust have been working above their paygrade for years. We are calling on the trust to pay them what they deserve.

We are calling on our members and the wider public to support this petition. These cuts will impact service delivery and could result in increased attendance times and reduced resilience, further causing the normal response to be diminished.