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UNISON Northern retweeted
🏆 UNISON One Team Awards are now open
This #OneTeamDay 💙 help celebrate the NHS support staff who make a difference every day.
Nominate a colleague who deserves recognition and they could win a £500 voucher!
unsn.uk/oneteamawards
UNISON Northern retweeted
To the chancellor @JohnHealey_MP
Labour MPs, councillors and members backed our #WeShowUp campaign at Labour conference for greater investment in public services.
Now we need you to show up and turn that support into action in the budget.
UNISON Northern retweeted
"Unions must organise where people are, in workplaces and online."
UNISON assistant general secretary @clarenorthern2 at the @campaignlab_ Labour conference fringe on collaborating and campaigning effectively for working people.
#Lab26 #organising #campaignlab
UNISON Northern retweeted
📢✊ Migrant workers must not be made scapegoats for decades of failure to invest in public services.
At #Lab26, @AndreaEganGS called on the government to drop plans that could force migrant workers to wait 15 years for settlement.
#FairVisasNow ⬇️
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UNISON Northern retweeted
🚨 NEW: A report from @Cmmonwealth has found that over £6 billion in profit was taken from public services by outsourcing companies last year.
That sum would pay for 300,000 additional adult social care workers to look after Britain’s vulnerable.
UNISON Northern retweeted
Public service workers show up for us 💙
After years of underfunding, cuts and privatisation, public services need urgent investment to recover.
Now it's the government's turn to show up for public services.
Add your name to our petition: 🔗 buff.ly/MKqPmgp
#WeShowUp
UNISON Northern retweeted
Years of underfunding, staff shortages and outsourcing are pushing public services to breaking point.
Clare Williams on @LBC on why this year's budget must invest in public services, improve staffing levels and bring services back in-house.
#WeShowUp #InsourceNow
UNISON Northern retweeted
📢✊ Public service workers have been holding our services together for years. Enough is enough.
They cannot keep being asked to do more with less.
They show up for us every day. Now tell the government: show up for them.
Sign the petition ⬇️
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#WeShowUp
In reponse to Sunderland Council pulling funding for Show Racism the Red Card
"The decision by Sunderland City Council to withdraw funding risks undermining efforts to challenge prejudice and discrimination at a time when racism at work is on the rise." buff.ly/QVLaf5u
Today we find out the future of the Save Our STANLEY's Campaign in South Shields. We are outside the Town Hall to show the strength of feeling to keep the centre's open.
The council is about to meet to make a decision on the proposal to close all 10 STANLEY's affecting 100 staff
UNISON Northern retweeted
'Teaching assistants, cleaners and all other school support staff are long overdue a better deal,’ says UNISON general secretary Andrea Egan on reports the government will let schools use money saved from support staff pension funds to pay for the teachers’ pay award.

ALT Andrea Egan: School support staff overdue a better deal "Setting worker against worker is never the answer. "Teaching assistants, cleaners and all other support staff are long overdue a better deal. Any money saved from the local government pension scheme must go towards improving their pay and conditions. "”This plan also raises practical concerns about how any redistribution of pensions will work. Schools don’t pay the same pension contributions across the country. "Some could be left without any budget savings because their employer contributions won’t actually fall."
UNISON Northern retweeted
Congratulations to Wendy Aitman, @NorthernUNISON learning rep, for winning a @The_TUC rep award at #TUC2026
Watch Wendy talk about her work as a learning rep and what it means for her and for UNISON members
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Proud to work with @SRTRC_England 💜
Joining with #ShowRacismTheRedCard at #TUC2026 to mark 30 years of anti-racist education.
Clare Williams, UNISON:
“Every human being must be treated with dignity and respect. Through solidarity and collective action we will challenge the rise of racism and populist right.”
UNISON Northern retweeted
Delighted that @pcs_union has joined UNISON and @RMTunion to demand an end to outsourcing and for public services to be brought back in-house.
@AndreaEganGS: “PCS joining #InsourceNow strengthens the campaign for a genuine wave of insourcing across our public services.” ↘️↖️
Replying to @RMTunion
@RMTunion @pcs_union @unisontheunion TUC delegations demand a wave of insourcing in public services at #TUC26
#INSOURCENOW
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UNISON Northern retweeted
Last night, outsourced workers, activists and trade unionists came together to send a clear message: the age of outsourcing is over.
Every year, corporate outsourcing giants make billions from public contracts while leaving services and the people who provide them worse off.
Unions representing more than 1.2m NHS workers are urging for action on promised pay reforms.
Health unions are calling on the government to get negotiations back on track and tackle the structural pay issues affecting Agenda for Change staff. #NHSPay
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UNISON Northern retweeted
✊📢 “Services being brought back in-house is absolutely crucial for our public services.”
UNISON's Clare Williams explains why #InsourceNow matters, and why the government must deliver on its commitment to bring more public services back in-house.
@InsourceNowGB ↘️↖️
🚨Send a message to Andy Burnham by jointing the rally outside Labour conference.
Fair Visas Now! ✊
Register: unsn.uk/4gy6L9T
UNISON Northern retweeted
Burnham urged to tackle outsourcing ‘scourge’ as RMT and Unison launch Insourcing Now campaign
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