A report back from our delegation to Labour East’s regional conference
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UNISON activist Macdonald Neife was awarded Police Staff of the Year by the National Black Police Association (NBPA) last month. The gong, presented at a ceremony hosted by Bedfordshire Constabulary in Luton, is for a member of police staff who has actively and positively promoted equality and fairness within the police service over a significant […]
Ahead of the COP26 protests, UNISON Norfolk County branch vice-chair Jess Carrington explains why the environment is a trade union issue
To celebrate Young Workers’ Month this November, we asked some of UNISON Eastern’s young members about why they joined
As Black History Month draws to a close for another year, we asked some leading UNISON Eastern Black activists on why this time of year is important to them. Black History Month is important to me because it’s a time I use to stop and reflect on how great it is to be Black, I […]
As Black History Month draws to a close, we teamed up with Aspire Black Suffolk to speak to students from Suffolk One about their future aspirations and why Black history is important to them.
We speak to teaching assistant Sue Ryles about what it’s like to be a schools rep – and why more people should do it
Tim Roberts explains how Eastern region care workers are organising in his latest blog
A group of anti-vaccination activists barged into Colchester Hospital in Essex on Wednesday, claiming they were serving legal papers on the trust and staff. Online videos show the leader of the mob handing bewildered staff brown envelopes he claimed contained proof that the whole pandemic if a fake and cites staff for breaching the Nuremberg […]
Social care staff in Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire are launching a new campaign for a living wage and proper sick pay next week. Frontline care staff will be joined by Christina McAnea, general secretary of care workers’ union UNISON, and Sara Johnson of the Living Wage Foundation to launch Who Cares? on Monday evening, calling on […]
Why we’re campaigning for a real living wage in care
The fight for equality runs through everything we do the whole year round, says Tim Roberts