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Lilian Macer
Unison deliver 5,000 'fair pay now' cards to constituency MSPs demanding the Scottish Government 'pays up on NHS pay' outside Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh
Workers' Rights / 8 December 2025
8 December 2025

Amid the festive lights, Scotland faces a stark holiday truth: only real investment in public services and the workers who sustain them can lift communities out of poverty, argues LILIAN MACER

School support workers, who are members of Unison, Unite and GMB Scotland, on the picket line at Portobello High School in Edinburgh, September 26, 2023
Funding / 28 April 2025
28 April 2025

Tackling poverty in Scotland cannot happen without properly funded public services. Unison is leading the debate

An elderly person at a charity tea party in London, February
STUC Congress 2024 / 16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Despite several inquiries and reviews, conditions for social care workers in Scotland are stagnating instead of improving — we need state intervention to deliver the long overdue improvements, writes LILIAN MACER
Humza Yousaf meets a care home resident when he was health s
Features / 2 December 2023
2 December 2023
Unison Scotland gathers for its Scottish council today. Regional secretary LILIAN MACER outlines the union’s alternative to the Scottish government’s failing national care service legislation