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Dave Prentis

August 2019

  • Gloria De Piero

    Labour told it may be 'going backwards on equality'

  • Dave Prentis of Unison leaving 10 Downing Street

    Labour accused of trading all-women seats for its 'favourite sons'

September 2017

  • Arlene Foster’s Democratic Unionist party is propping up the Tory government.

    May suffers humiliation as DUP backs Labour on NHS pay and tuition fees

  • Shadow chancellor John McDonnell had pledged his support if workers were to decide to strike over the pay cap.

    Government to signal pay cap for police and prison officers may be lifted

July 2017

  • Unison members hold a banner reading 'Fighting for access to justice for all'

    The Guardian view on employment tribunal fees: denial of justice

    Editorial: The UK’s supreme court has ruled the government wrong to levy charges. They undermine the rule of law. Ministers must respect the limits of power

May 2017

  • Dave Prentis, the Unison boss, said only a Labour victory would represent success.

    Scrap feuds and keep your eye on victory, Unison chief tells Labour

    Dave Prentis warns against factions as he attacks Theresa May’s wooing of working families

April 2016

  • Unison members at a TUC demonstration

    Government scraps proposed changes to trade union funding

    U-turn on plan to abolish ‘check-off’ system follows threatened rebellion in Lords and will be seen as major victory for unions

December 2015

  • Dave Prentis

    Unison head faces leadership challenge from the left

    Dave Prentis, who recently criticised Jeremy Corbyn, is standing against three other candidates for post of general secretary

November 2015

  • Len McCluskey, Unite general secretary, speaks at a Save Our Steel rally in Sheffield.

    Len McCluskey criticises Jeremy Corbyn over shoot-to-kill policy comments

  • Dave Prentis said the vulnerable and low-paid were under ‘unprecedented attack’.

    'Infighting' Labour not standing up for low-paid workers, says Unison

September 2015

  • General Secretary Dave Prentis Speaks At The Unison national conference

    Unison has done so much for working women

    Letters: Unison has always stood up for women, not only those who are members, but women in wider society too

July 2015

  • Jeremy Corbyn candidate in Labour Party leadership election

    Unison endorses Jeremy Corbyn for Labour leadership

    Unison general secretary Dave Prentis says Corbyn’s message is resonating with union’s 1.3 million members working in public services

June 2015

  • Dave Prentis

    Unison boss to tell government that efforts to crush unions will fail

    Dave Prentis also attacks proposed legislation making strikes unlawful unless 50% of those entitled to vote take part in a ballot as vindictive

September 2014

  • Unison general secretary Dave Prentis

    NHS workers back strike action in pay row by 2-to-1 margin

    Unison members in England including nurses, porters and paramedics vote for first pay strike in 32 years

  • Unison members protest

    Unison's NHS workers vote to back strike action over pay in England

    Union says a demoralised workforce whose real pay has fallen by 12% and won't rise for two years is bad for patients
  • Frances O'Grady at TUC congress

    TUC congress: We are heading for a Downton Abbey-style society

    Britain risks being a nastier and poorer place as social mobility reverses and privilege is entrenched, says Frances O'Grady

August 2014

  • Pig carcasses

    FSA meat inspectors to stage two strikes in pay row

    Unison members to walk out next week after imposed below-inflation wage hike of 0.75%

July 2014

  • David Cameron on Downing Street, 9 July 2014.

    Cameron plans strike crackdown as one million public workers walk out

  • Aditya Chakrabortty

    The Tories should be defending union rights: capitalism depends on them

    Aditya Chakrabortty

June 2014

  • Unions strike Dave Prentis

    Coalition faces huge strike as biggest unions ballot council workers

    Unison, GMB and Unite ballot hundreds of thousands of workers in England and Wales in protest at offer worth 1% for most staff

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