Unpaid overtime pushing public sector to ‘tipping point’

25 September 2018
Unpaid overtime pushing public sector to ‘tipping point’
A new report from UNISON has argued that public services support staff are doing more than 40 million hours of unpaid overtime a year.
We Can’t Go on Like This says that the sum of hours worked overtime, and unpaid, is the equivalent of 25,000 extra public service staff working full time and emphasises not only how far workers are prepared to go to keep services running efficiently but also the impact of years of job cuts.

Labour to make no more academies pledge

24 September 2018
Labour to make no more academies pledge
Angela Rayner is set to tell the Labour Party conference in Liverpool that the current school system is ‘simply not fit for purpose’.