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Equal Pay and Closing the Gender Pay Gap

4 Mar 2018

This statement provides an overview of three key areas where PSI affiliate UNISON has been leading campaigns and collective bargaining to end gender pay discrimination and to win equal pay for its members. This is part of PSI's online campaign for International Women's Day.

Double standards: How the UK promotes rip-off health PPPs abroad

2 Oct 2017

The Jubilee Debt Campaign has released a new report: ‘Double standards: How the UK promotes rip-off health PPPs abroad’ (24 pages, with a 4 page executive summary). PSI and its affiliates has substantially contributed to the content of the report.

UNISON legal victory sees employment tribunal fees scrapped

26 July 2017

Employment tribunal fees will be scrapped after PSI’s UK affiliate UNISON won a landmark court victory against the government on 26 July. Supreme Court verdict follows four-year fight by union and is a victory for everyone in work.

PSI-EPSU Cooperation Committee

Date: 
22 September, 2017

Mental health matters

02 June 2017
Mental health matters logo

UNISON’s Mental Health Matters campaign aims to highlight the pressure faced by mental health services in the UK, and the impact this has on those accessing services. It also explores the mental health and wellbeing of staff providing the much-needed support, who also struggle to deal with their own stress while helping others.

Renationalisation is needed to tackle water poverty

23 May 2017

This PSIRU Brief, written by Emanuele Lobina, shows that water privatisation in England and Wales has led to a concerning increase in water poverty, and that economic regulator Ofwat is part of the problem. It argues that renationalisation is needed to tackle water poverty.

UK: successful end to education workers' long dispute in Derby

26 April 2017
Photo: UNISON

Education support workers in the UK city of Derby have ended 10 months of dispute with the city council.

The NHS is in crisis - and it's a disaster of the government's own making

15 March 2017
UNISON member at the 4th March demo

The UK's Conservative government has said enough money is being provided for the National Health Service. But UNISON, with nearly half a million members in healthcare, can see that is simply not true. The cracks in the facade are beginning to show.

PSI Constitutional Meetings

27 February 2017

Nursing Staff Levels Affect Patient Outcomes - Stand Against NHS Cuts and Closures

01 February 2017
Photo: Unison

A recent study in the UK confirms positive correlations between trained nurses staffing levels and patient outcomes. This is at a time when the National Health Service (NHS) faces the likelihood of cuts and closures under the guise of Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs).