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Over the past two weeks, Health Branches across the South East have once again made their feelings crystal clear, all NHS staff deserve a proper pay rise, and they will continue to campaign until one is delivered. The latest ‘2Daysfor2K’ took a step up from March/April, with 200 staff seen demonstrating at East Surrey along […]
Community march planned for 15 May
Concerns raised that cuts have hampered the ability of the force to combat serious and violent crime
UNISON branches across the region commemorated those that died at work and signalled our intent to keep fighting to prevent future workplace deaths
Staff ‘heartbroken’ at planned closure of much loved nursery at the University of Brighton
The conviction of Derek Chauvin must be the first step towards positive change to tackle racial injustice
Stephen Lawrence Day on 22nd April 2021. The third national Stephen Lawrence Day, which takes place on Thursday 22 April 2021 On 22 April 1993, Stephen Lawrence was murdered in a racially motivated attack, carried out by a group of white men. As the 28th anniversary of Stephen’s murder approaches, his mother, Baroness Doreen Lawrence […]
This year we will be running 4 events as part of our disabled members training programme. We have created a varied timetable of events such as panel interviews, workshops and interactive lunch and learns. You will be able to attend any of the events which will all take place on Microsoft Teams and have been […]
On 31 March and 1 April members across the South East came out to campaign for an improved NHS pay award
UNISON has a long and proud history supporting the LGBT+ community, and ensuring that their voices are heard at all levels of the union. The 31st of March is International Transgender Day of Visibility, and Liv Naylor – co-chair of the region’s LGBT+ Self Organised Group – explains the significance of the occasion, and the […]
This week marked a whole year since the country went into lockdown as COVID-19 surged across the UK. In that year, we have seen the government repeatedly mismanage the situation, ignoring the Govt advisory group SAGE warnings until they had no option but to act. Over 126,000 lives have been lost. As the nation fell […]
The school was closed today as UNISON, NEU and GMB members took action against controversial plans to force the school to become an academy
On the anniversary of the first UK lockdown, the UK’s largest union calls for a full public inquiry into the response to the Covid-19 pandemic
UNISON members have won the battle to keep their NHS jobs, after threats to transfer workers to a wholly owned subsidiary were made in April 2019