Quality journalism is at the heart of a healthy democracy. It helps to keep people informed, combat fake news and holds those in power to account. Yet the local media industry is in crisis. Newsquest is the second largest owner of regional and local newspapers in the UK and the company dominates the media industry in Cumbria. Newsquest bought a series of newspaper titles in Cumbria earlier this year and since then the effect on local newsrooms has been detrimental and dramatic. The company has driven away experienced local journalists, whose professionalism, ethics and local standing has benefited the company - and the local community - enormously. Collectively, their departure represents a catastrophic loss of experience and knowledge. NUJ members working for the Carlisle News and Star, the Cumberland News, the Workington Times and Star and the Whitehaven News newspapers took strike action on Thursday 20 December and need your support in their continuing campaign. Please support the staff at Newsquest's Cumbrian papers and send a message to Managing Director Johnathan Lee.

Premium pay rates offer a small compensation for employees spending Christmas Eve, Boxing Day, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day at work. Two years ago staff at TGI Friday’s restaurants across the U.K. were forced into signing contracts that took away their right to be paid time-and-a-half for working over the Christmas and New Year period. While many people spend this time at home with family and friends, workers at restaurants like TGI Friday's have to work. Workers were told there was no option but to sign the updated contract and that they would not be allowed to work again until they had. Some reported being told to sign the new contract halfway through a busy shift without being informed what it was they were signing away. TGI Friday's workers are often made to survive on minimum wage. Compensation for the time spent away from our family and friends over the festive season is the least a big profitable company like TGI Friday's can do.

Our children, and indeed the school as a whole, depend heavily on the dedication of support staff: administrative, pastoral, catering, premises, and other roles. The functioning of teaching, safeguarding, lunches, site maintenance and more is materially impacted when they withdraw. The fact that these staff have been forced to strike over refusal to backdate nationally agreed pay awards places the Trust in a difficult moral and public relations position — especially as other MATs and local authorities have honoured their commitments. As parents, we are not in a position to adjudicate financial constraint arguments, but we do expect accountability, transparency, and fair treatment of staff, especially those on lowest pay scales.

Cornwall’s NHS needs investment, not cuts. Patient care depends on the staff who keep the system running.

Many staff in Harrow Council use their Flexitime to improve their work/life balance. Having a good work/life balance is proven to improve efficiency and have a happier workforce. Many council employees are dealing with high workloads, low resources, and stress on the job. One simple thing that makes a lot of employees work lives easier (and increases both recruitment and retention) is the ability to use Flexitime. Taking this away without consultation is not only unfair, but will seriously detriment many employees. This is important to staff as they use Flexitime to have an decent work/life balance whilst many other elements working in local government, such as low pay & high workloads, remain unsolved.  GMB say NO to Harrow Council taking away Flexitime.

Help us fix this injustice before it affects everyone. Management know it happened but refuse to resolve this.

We believe staff parking should be free for those who are contractually required to use their car for work such as social workers, and free for those who require parking nearby as a reasonable adjustment due to a disability.  It is also deeply unfair that those on low incomes are  having to pay the same as Directors and the Chief Executive. Staff are being forced to buy a £300 a year flexi permit, or pay £6 per day, when executives on over £100,000 a year will be paying much less of a percentage of their income.  Staff are being banned for 30 days without appeal if they have not purchased a ticket.  As a result staff that can't afford to pay are having to park on residential streets, which is having a detrimental impact on residents in Dorchester.  Councillors are able to park for free in all Council owned car parks when undertaking Council business, this is right but it should apply to employees of the Council too.   Staff morale is at an all time low and workplace stress at an all time high. This is an unfair system that needs to be reconsidered by Dorset Council.

Outsourcing has a negative effect on services, not only do staff suffer but patients as well.

It's important that all vulnerable people receive the essential care they are entitled to .  It's important to show that carers and healthcare professionals matter too . Finding lawful parking spaces whilst delivering essential care isn't easy at times . It's important that carers and healthcare professionals can always park their cars whilst delivering essential care to the vulnerable people nationwide. Carers and healthcare professionals being fined is not helping with recruitment, there's already staffing shortage in the care sector. Carers and healthcare professionals are already amongst the lowest paid . As carers and healthcare professionals we put the vulnerable first even if no lawful parking space exists and this then leads to an expensive fine doesn't seem fair . Devon county council give their healthcare professionals and carers free parking permits I'm asking for this to be available to all carers and healthcare professionals please.

Your support will make a difference in our efforts to achieve union recognition. The trade union movement is only as strong as the people who support it, and that’s why it is so essential that you show your support for NDCS staff at this critical moment. Together, we can get Unison recognised at NDCS.

Bank staff at RDaSH have resisted the move to NHSP for sometime, as opposed to other trusts who have gradually moved onto NHSP over the past few years. Staff forced onto NHSP contracts are now seeing their rights eroded. NHSP have not been awarded the lump sum and members have no way of challenging this. WHY? Because NHSP do not negotiate with trade unions! NHSP is preferred by trusts as it saves the them money, it does this by paying less to the bank staff. So, if you want to do any overtime you will be forced to sign onto NHSP and then get paid less than you would get for your substantive post. Imagine working on bank alongside a colleague on a substantive post, doing the same job but being paid less! Pay and conditions are protected by keeping the bank contracts with RDaSH, plain and simple! We need to fight and say no NSHP!

In the middle of the worst cost of living crisis in recent years management have failed to make a fair offer and are trying to cut terms and conditions.