Children's Play Area Designs: Save our services

Monday 26 November 2018

Save our services – celebrate our unsung heroes

Join UNISON activists across the country on Thursday 6 December for SOS Day!

This year, we are focusing on the role our members in local government play in keeping people safe. Workers in trading standards, environmental health, social services, schools and many others are the unsung heroes of our communities.

Cuts to council budgets have put jobs under pressure and our communities at risk.

Less money is spent on prevention and enforcement. Staff shortages, long hours and high levels of stress take their toll on staff and risk putting people and communities at risk.

Do you work in a service that helps to keep communities safe?

Tell us how cuts have affected your job and the service you work in.

Whether your job has obvious and high profile impact on people’s safety, or whether it’s a role that doesn’t often get any limelight but has safety implications that might surprise people, we’d like to hear from you.

So please get in touch at sos@unison.co.uk.

Tell us how cuts affect how you are able to deliver your service and protect our communities. Interviews can be anonymous and will help us write about your role protecting neighbourhoods.

What can your branch do to get ready?

Plan what your branch will do on SOS Day to show our members that we are fighting against further cuts to the services they work in.

It can be as simple as holding a workplace meeting, talking to workers in public safety-related roles about how cuts have impacted their jobs and local services, or something much bigger.