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The STUC is encouraging all its member unions and their branches to organise specific workplace activities that will both promote opposition to […]

Louise Evans says the first step is the hardest, but the climb gets a little easier with each step you take

Your skills, your future is the one-day workshop developed by UNISON learning to help members identify all the skills they already have, put them to good use and […]

Conventional and unconventional approaches to recruitment debated at women’s conference

For example, not letting homecare workers have breaks: some start work at 6.30am and finish at 10pm. It doesn’t have to be like that – […]

Across the country, members join together to celebrate trade unions

The issue of losing my tax credits was keeping me awake at night: as a single mum I didn’t know how I was going to provide for my family

Nobody – not employers, workers, nor many politicians – thinks the Government’s changes are a good idea. I hope ♥unions week […]

UNISON president issues call as activists and members get out and about to spread pride in the union

During Heart UNISON week it’s worth remembering that while taking strike action is never easy, the results can make a huge difference to people’s lives

"Yet all of these are threatened if the UK Conservative government’s Trade Union Bill is implemented. "The Bill will make it harder for people to join and be […]

Health and safety saves lives, and UNISON reps are at the forefront of that work

If the Conservatives have their way, low-paid workers in particular – a majority of who are women may lose representation and these are exactly the […]

I work with people who have memory problems. I’m a community psychiatric nurse so I go to the homes of people who have Alzheimer’s disease or other types of dementia.

NHS needs to operate as one team in the interests of joined-up, high-quality patient care