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All young members in your branch should be given equal opportunity to put themselves forward. The deadline for registering your delegates is 5pm on Thursday 6 January. Click for […]

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 […]

UNISON is the largest trade union representing healthcare students Join UNISON for £10 a year. That’s as little as 0.84p a month! We are dedicated to campaigning for a better deal for all healthcare students including Nursing, Midwifery, Occupational Therapist, Operating Department Practitioners, Children’s Health, Health Visitors, Nursery Nurse Paramedics & Paramedic Practitioners, Social work, […]

Equality is at the heart of everything we do as a union, and we want to make it as easy as possible for you to get involved. We hope the new and innovative UNISON South East interactive Equality Calendar will be useful for you in knowing when equality events and training which interest you are […]

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.

During the week she works as a project manager for the NHS in the West Midlands, and spends a lot of her spare time organising with UNISON […]

“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 […]

UNISON Area Organiser Liz Woodhouse is lead for students in the region and helped to promote UNISON to the new intake at Oxford Brookes University […]

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

We meet Georgie, a 27 year old Support Worker who had to move out of her home to protect her family during the first wave of the pandemic

12 August is International Youth Day, the day the UN has picked to encourage young people to get involved in the world around them and shape the things that affect their lives. There’s not much that affects your life more than how things are at work, whether it’s low pay, long hours, unrealistic workloads, bullying […]