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Date

12 – 18 February 2024

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Everywhere

Love is in the air as we celebrate Heart Unions Week. A chance to reflect on the important work of trade unions.

The week of Valentine’s Day is now a week of celebration within the trade union movement. Joanne Kaye writes for Heart Unions Week 2023.

Date

13 – 19 February 2023

Let’s shout loudly and proudly about everything our movement has won for workers so far. And let’s look forward to what we’ll achieve when we campaign together

Norwich City Hall is showing its love for trade unions this week with a ceremony to launch Heart Unions week in the Lord Mayor’s Chamber. Lord Mayor Kevin Maguire welcomed UNISON members and officials to his parlour alongside City Council leader Alan Waters. Mr Maguire said: I’m proud to welcome Norwich City UNISON into my […]

As we enter this year’s Heart Unions week, it’s worth paraphrasing Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara: let me say the true trade unionist is guided by great feelings of love. I’m not sure how much the more cynical of us would agree with Che, but the driving force behind so much we do is some […]

💜 Unions week is back! Between 14 and 21 February, we’ll be shouting about all the amazing things trade unions do and to encourage people not in a union, to join UNISON. We wanted to take this opportunity to say a massive thank you to every UNISON East Midlands rep and member who support their […]

Tim Roberts celebrates ♥️Unions Week in his latest blog

General secretary praises the union’s ‘special’ women as he says UNISON ‘will not abandon our fight’

UNISON's award-winning legal team, who won one of the most significant employment law changes in history when they got the government to scrap employment tribunal fees. UNISON runs a free […]

We’re also the biggest organisation for women in the country with more than a million women in membership. We’re the union that […]

Date

11 – 17 February 2019

It’s that lovely time of year when we shout about all the reasons we love being a member of a union. The buzz, online visibility and workplace activity generated by the annual #HeartUnions event is the perfect opportunity to pluck up the courage to chat to someone about joining UNISON. Watch our new film (above) […]

A similar scene took place in Stockport, where Care Workers for Change took to the pavement outside Borough Care Ltd, to declare “We care workers” and talk to the […]

Date

12 – 18 February 2018

Heart UNISON 2018 provides the perfect opportunity to win support for a public sector pay rise and get people involved in our #PayUpNow! campaign.

Women have always been central to trade unions and the fight for a better society. To celebrate International Women’s Day we’ve put together a timeline of some of their key achievements

So many of the great changes won in decades past are victories hard fought for by unions, the Labour Party and our whole […]