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We hear from one of our Young Member activists on why they felt they had to stand up for young workers

Cici is posing with Moosha, the LGBT+ community cow in xir local library Belle Bradley Young workers often get overlooked […]

The region’s Young Members are coming together after the toughest 18 months of their lives

Tell us about your experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic – and join the prize draw for shopping vouchers

Does your branch have a plan for recruiting and developing young activists? Encouraging young members to get involved is important for UNISON’s long-term success, so in November 2020 we surveyed UNISON’s young members to ask about their involvement in the union. Based on their responses, our report “Getting Active in UNISON” makes some recommendations to […]

The union seeks government guarantees that health data will be used in an ethical manner, assigned its true value and used for the benefit of UK healthcare

As a result of COVID-19, many conferences and meetings have had to be cancelled. With this in mind, UNISON South East organised a series of online sessions in place of the usual regional Equality Conference–online and live. The Conference was opened by Regional Manager and Head of Equality, Jo Galloway. “This year has been like […]

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We hope the new and innovative UNISON South East interactive Equality Calendar will be useful for you in knowing when equality events and […]

With vaccine hesitancy high among young women, UNISON members reassure others that there’s nothing to fear

November has been young workers month and this year the campaign was to celebrate and raise awareness of our young trade unionist activists in UNISON could not be more important.

But for Sonia, membership isn’t enough. Her mission is to get more young workers actively involved in their local branches. “Young people are going to be paying for the […]

“As you can imagine anyone that is under 25 would have worked for SSE/OVO for a max 7 years and in my case it was 5 years, so our packages were not as great as some […]

For UK trade unions, November is Young Workers month. Young workers are recognised within UNISON as being under-27 and have their own officers and section within our union. This means that that UNISON has dedicated resources that help our union’s 63,000 young workers to help amplify their voices and win on the issues that matter […]

November is young workers month and UNISON wants to hear directly from young workers on what support they need from their union