UNISON

Damien Doherty

Trade union rally and delegation over health service cuts and pay demands

Participants carry placards during the Derry Housing Action Committee protest march over housing crisis on Saturday afternoon Photo: George Sweeney

IN PICTURES: Derry Housing Action Committee march

Rural communities are entitled to proper services including emergency surgery.

Hugh Scullion Workers Party Representative has described The NHSCB decision to r...

Group pictured at the launch of LGBTQIA+ Awareness Week held in the Learning Disability and Multi-Use Centre. From left are Martin McConnellogue, Unison LGBT, Amanda Biega, good relations officer, DCSDC, Jason Dunn, chairperson Pride, Cllr. Sandra Duffy, Amy McRory, Rainbow (Foyle), James McGolderick and Xavier Beardwood. (Photo - Tom Heaney, nwpresspics)

Pride Quilt exhibited in Derry to raise LGBTQIA+ awareness

Dumfries Academy history teacher Heather Chalk and Deirdre McDowell holding a photograph of Jane Haining and family.

Derry woman to star in new documentary about Scottish Holocaust heroine

Niall McCarroll, chair of Derry Trades Union Council.

Niall McCarroll steps down as chair of Derry Trades Union Council

Mary Lyttle

Unison's Mary Lyttle: Trade unions the ‘only body left to defend the people'

Unison President Libby Nolan

Unison president Libby Nolan sends solidarity to Derry strike marchers

School support workers, cleaning staff and janitors are currently on strike in Scotland as the Unison union remains locked in a pay dispute with education chiefs. (Credit: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

Breaking Scottish school support staff stage strike in pay dispute

International Day of the Midwife falls on Friday, 5 May in 202

Happy International Day of the Midwife 2023: How to get involved

The Killing Floor will be screened on Monday.

‘The Killing Floor’ to be screened as part of ‘Year of Black Workers’

Nursing strikes 2023: Royal College of Nursing, the GMB & Unison back new pay offer - but it’s not over yet

Breaking Nursing strikes 2023: Unions back pay offer - but it’s not over yet

Trade unionists form up ahead of the Save Our NHS rally on Saturday.

Rally hears of health system in crisis and vows to fight ‘NHS destruction'

Andrea Egan

Unison President Andrea Egan sends solidarity ahead of strike action

Strike action is planned for Tuesday.

‘Largest mobilisation of workers’ predicted as unions to stage rally

Health workers on the picket line at Altnagelvin on Thursday, including, on left, Carmen Brady-James, and, second from right, John Quinn.

Health workers: ‘How much more cost of living crisis can we endure?’
Health workers have taken to the picket lines at Altnagelvin as part of a day long strike in pursuit of better pay and conditions.
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Altnagelvin

Western Trust expects significant disruption during full day of strike action

National ambulance and NHS trade unions have announced a day of strike action to take place tomorrow.

NHS advise when to use 999 as ambulance driver strikes begin today

Royal College of Nurses members, campaigning for fair pay and conditions, take part in industrial action at Altnagelvin Hospital on Thursday morning. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2250GS - 43

'The NHS is run on good will' Councillors told

List of all the strikes taking place in the lead up to Christmas 2022

A group of fraudsters have been posing as ambulance staff and knocking on doors asking for financial support ahead of upcoming industrial action.

Fraudsters posing as ambulance staff seen asking for donations

Health and care workers from NIPSA, UNISON and GMB trade unions, campaigning for fair pay and conditions, take part in industrial action at Altnagelvin Hospital on Monday morning. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2250GS – 03

IN PICTURES: healthcare workers on the picket lines in Derry

One of the picket lines will be at Altnagelvin Hospital.

625 appointments postponed in Western Trust as health staff to strike on Monday

Amie Gallagher, Project Coordinator at Focus Project and volunteer Nikita Burke.

Derry free school uniform scheme ‘a lifeline’ in cost of living crisis

DECEMBER 2019: Nurses from the Royal College of Nursing union strike at Altnagelvin Hospital. DER5119GS - 004

£1 an hour pay rise for health care staff gets backing of Council

Niall McCarroll.

Derry Trades Union Council to host Know Your Rights workshop to advise strugglin...

Patricia McKeown

UNISON secretary Patricia McKeown backs extension of restrictions to protect pub...
One of the main trade unions in the north has backed an extension of the COVID-19 restrictions to protect public health and further drive down transmission of the virus.
Kevin Mullan

Niall McCarroll.

Union wants pay equity forsupported housing workers

These are your rights as a worker during the coronavirus pandemic

Shaun Harkin

Derry PBP Councillor Shaun Harkin calls treatment of sick care home staff a 'sca...

A minute's silence will be held across the UK today (28 April) to commemorate the key workers who have lost their lives from Covid-19 (Photo: Shutterstock)

Here’s what you need to know about today’s minute’s silence for key workers

Altnagelvin.

Derry nurses stage picket for pay parity at Altnagelvin

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Trust working to minimise disruption during industrial action

Guildhall.

Front line workersbacked

Union representatives gathered at the Guildhall on Wednesday.

'˜We must fight Universal Credit'

Pay claims.

Derry health unions to pursue pay claims with industrial action if necessary

The Unison organised protest in Derry.

Bryson Care say they have been '˜open and transparent' with all staff

A protest held outside the Guildhall back in February over the threat to Foyle Haven services.

Foyle Haven campaign ramps up as funding cut-off point looms

A previous Foyle Pride parade in Derry.

Family fun day, disco and marriage equality events

Picket over cuts to care worker benefits

A section of the attendees at the recent meeting to discuss the cuts to the Supporting People projects, pay and working conditions.

Workers consider industrial action

Sean Boyle (left) and Kathleen Bradley (right) were among those who attended the recent meeting in Derry.

Cuts to Supporting People challenged

1% pay offer for health staff is '˜woefully inadequate'

CHORAL FESTIVAL. . . . .Martine Mulhern, Principal, St. CeciliaÃ¢Â¬"s College pictured with the Unison 12-Part Competition Trophy, won by the School Choir at the City of Derry International Choral Festlival last weekend. Included are Chris Kerrigan, Conductor, students Megan Gillespie and Niamh McGonagle, and Claire McGirr, Choral Director. (Photo: Jim McCafferty Photography)

St. Cecilia's College choir celebrate their success at Choral Festival

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