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Date

7 June 2024 12:00pm–1:00pm

Location

Online via Microsoft Teams

Chaired by a member of UNISON’s National Young Members Forum. Register here […]

Date

24 May 2024 12:00pm–1:00pm

Location

Online via Microsoft Teams

Chaired by a member of UNISON’s National Young Members Forum. Register here […]

Date

7 September 2023 10:00am–2:00pm

Location

Online

We are pleased to offer a dedicated training course for all young workers to help them be more assertive. Young workers may be particularly vulnerable to things like, bullying, harassment, negligence by their employer and physical and emotional stress. Who is the course for? The course is designed for all young members, activists and reps […]

UNISON’s second-ever Young Members Conference was held last month in Bournemouth, with Eastern delegates once again playing a major part in making the gathering a success. Our regional motions, Affordable housing is a human right and Uncomfortable yet? Sexual harassment is never OK, were both adopted by conference. The latter was even selected by conference […]

Date

11 January 2023 6:30pm–7:30pm

Location

Online via Teams

Our regional young members committee annual general meeting is open to all UNISON Eastern members aged 26 or under. It’s a fantastic way to get involved with UNISON and make sure that young workers have a clear voice across the union. If you have not been to a UNISON meeting before, we make sure that […]

Date

4 November 2022 1:00pm–2:00pm

Location

Online via GoToWebinar

Taster session on the role of the Green Rep (now a rule book branch position) with a panel discussion including active green reps and Stephen Smellie, UNISON NEC. Chair from UNISON’s National Young Members Forum

UNISON believes mental health is a trade union issue and UNISON's young members are actively campaigning for workplaces that are more mentally healthy. In May 2022 we […]

We’re proud to present our new equality calendar! The interactive calendar will help UNISON Eastern members and activists keep on top of the big events in the union as well as national and international equalities dates. The calendar will be updated regularly so check back for the latest and please get in touch if you’ve […]

Date

2 March 2022 5:00pm–6:00pm

All UNISON members under 27 years of age are entitled to participate as young members. The UNISON Eastern young members’ group works to: Encourage recruitment, organisation and participation of young workers, Provide a powerful voice for young members, Give young members the opportunity to develop the skills and knowledge necessary to participate in the union. […]

The cream of UNISON Eastern’s young activists are just back from Cardiff where they’ve been enthused by the first ever UNISON young members conference. Eastern was unmissable at conference, with our 11-strong delegation being the largest of any region. And our delegates weren’t just there to fill the room, with six of the 11 contributing […]

To celebrate Young Workers’ Month this November, we asked some of UNISON Eastern’s young members about why they joined

Date

12 November 2021 12:30pm–1:30pm

Presentation by Josephine Grahl, UNISON National Young Members Officer, chaired by Jess McGuire, UNISON’s National Young Members Forum Chair […]

Date

4 November 2021 1:00pm–2:00pm

UNISON’s young members present a webinar exploring what trade unions are doing to support the fight against climate change and how they work with climate campaigners.

Based on their responses, our report "Getting Active in UNISON" makes some recommendations to branches who want a plan to engage more young members in their work […]

Date

30 April 2021 3:00pm–4:00pm

Record numbers of young workers have joined UNISON in the last year – but how can we support them to become lifelong activists? UNISON’s young members present a webinar introducing the resources available to develop and support young members. All welcome, both young and not-so-young members.