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There For You School Uniform Grant 2025
School Uniform Grant Programme 2025 Launch date will be Wednesday 28 May 2025 at 12 noon. Payment will continue to be made in the form of vouchers at £75 per school aged child. Application process 24-hour application window and subsequent random ballot. Eligibility criteria are set out below and will be widely communicated to members in advance of …
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Solidarity with Birmingham Refuse Strikers
Sandwell General Branch has sent a message of support and £200 donation after a Unite representative explained the dispute in Birmingham’s Refuse service to the Branch Committee of stewards. Faced with losing up to £5,000 in pay and having the person overseeing safety on the trucks made redundant has sparked a dispute that has seen …
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Scrap the Pay Cap
Our employers across the West Midlands met in Sandwell on 21 July to discuss the joint union pay claim for 2018 of 5% plus the Living Wage at the bottom of the pay spine. With the support of West Midlands region of UNISON we organised a joint union lobby of our employers to press home …
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