Responses and Submissions

The setting up of the national fire and rescue service has meant both a great deal of change for UNISON members in the service but also confusion and uncertainty. This ... Read More

UNISON Scotland welcomes the opportunity to respond to the call for evidence from the Education and Culture Committee on Scotland’s educational and cultural future. UNISON represents over 165,000 members across ... Read More

UNISON is Scotland’s largest healthcare trade union representing over 50,000 members working in NHS Scotland and related services. All of our healthcare members greatly value the pension benefits they are ... Read More

UNISON Scotland welcomes the opportunity to provide written evidence to the Finance Committee on the Revenue Scotland and Tax Powers Bill (RSTP Bill) and we will be giving oral evidence ... Read More

The main issue for housing in Scotland remains the shortage of homes. In our document Funding and building the homes Scotland needs (March 2013) UNISON Scotland has outlined a proposal ... Read More

UNISON raised a range of concerns in our submission to the 2012 consultation on what was then called the Community Empowerment and Renewal Bill. The latest consultation has not diminished ... Read More

UNISON raised many concerns about the changes in the Post-16 Education Bill in particular college regionalisation. We are already seeing many of our concerns realised, for example overall student numbers ... Read More

Democratic structures create public bodies which are open and transparent in their dealings with the public. UNISON Scotland believes that issues of democratic accountability must be among the criteria used ... Read More

1.   The "fitness to practise" criteria is very vague and it is not clear to us what objective standards the SSSC would be measuring against. At present they look at ... Read More

UNISON Scotland members have been involved in various proposals for the integration of health and care services since the late1990s when Local Health Care Co-operatives were first launched, followed by ... Read More