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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.

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’

Where is the love? It’s right here!

That’s why this week – Heart Unions week – is so important. In recent years, we’ve taken this week to celebrate the achievements of our union and the wider trade union movement.

Valentine’s Day, Heart UNISON, Public Service Champions and Pay Up Now! – it all came together across the country today

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 […]

So many of the great changes won in decades past are victories hard fought for by our union and our movement. Whether it’s […]

#heartunions was back for 2017 and the energy and enthusiasm of our members and activists did UNISON proud.

So many of the great changes won in decades past are victories hard fought for by our union and our movement. Whether it’s […]

The staff are taking action again this week over changes to their contracts imposed by councillors, which have seen teaching assistants lose up to a […]