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• Three things you need to know about the anti-strike bill

  16-01-2023 15:10
  The UK is seeing record levels of strike action as ambulance workers, nurses, transport workers and teachers make a stand against the crisis in our public services.
  Yet, rather than engaging with the people who keep our country running, or finding solutions to staffing shortages and waiting lists, the government is intent on punishing frontline workers when they speak out.
  UNISON believes that the new anti-strike bill, named the Minimum Service Levels Bill, is a full-frontal attack on working pe
  
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• Blog: Standing with our members at the Environment Agency

  16-01-2023 11:36
  Pay erosion is the common crisis across many public services that’s now resulting in waves of industrial action. The problem is rooted in the political decision, first taken by the 2010 coalition government, to cut funding to our public services.
  Successive governments have refused to depart from that decision ever since.
  For workers in the Environment Agency (EA), their pay has been devalued by 20% over that time. Mix that with the cost of living crisis, a pay freeze from July 2020 to Nov
  
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• Environment Agency workers to take historical strike action

  16-01-2023 10:01
  Thousands of Environment Agency (EA) workers in England will strike for the first time tomorrow in a significant escalation in a dispute over pay.
  UNISON members working in the EA are now “working one day in every five for nothing” due a decade of government failures to pay workers wages in line with inflation.
  Workers who maintain important safety structures such as the Thames Barrier, coastal sea defences and those protecting communities from floods, water pollution, spills, waste
  
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• Environment Agency workers to take historic strike action

  16-01-2023 10:01
  Thousands of Environment Agency (EA) workers in England will strike for the first time tomorrow in a significant escalation in a dispute over pay.
  UNISON members working in the EA are now “working one day in every five for nothing” due a decade of government failures to pay workers wages in line with inflation.
  Workers who maintain important safety structures such as the Thames Barrier, coastal sea defences and those protecting communities from floods, water pollution, spills, waste
  
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• UNISON calls on minister to unlock EA pay talks ahead of strike

  16-01-2023 09:52
  UNISON is calling on the secretary of state of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) Thérèse Coffey to meet to resolve the current Environment Agency (EA) pay dispute.
  EA pay was frozen in 2021 – with staff having no pay rise from July 2020.
  Staff in the agency have seen their pay eroded by over 20% in the last decade and are now “working one day in every five for nothing”. UNISON members have voted to take strike action over pay for
  
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