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Equality calendar 2023 launched

The UNISON South East Equality Calendar for 2023 is now live! View this year’s equality calendar Equality is at the heart of everything we do as a union, and we want to make it as easy as possible for UNISON members to get involved. We hope it will be useful for you in knowing when […]

Article on the UNISON South East site.

Year of Black Workers 2023

This year is UNISON’s Year of Black Workers UNISON has 185,000 Black members, most of whom work in health and local government services, with significant numbers working in social care and schools. Many deliver frontline services, and many are low paid. UNISON national officer for race equality Margaret Greer said: “The Year of Black Workers […]

Page on the UNISON South East site.

Activists gather in Edinburgh to launch Year of Black Workers

Delegates make their voices heard at Scottish city’s International Conference Centre

Article, Black members news, News on the UNISON South East site.

Learn about mental health and the cost of living with Southampton District

Southampton District branch are hosting a lunchtime event where guest speakers will discuss a range of subjects around mental health and the cost of living crisis, with debt and well-being advice and more. Beginning at 12:30pm, the event at the John Hansard Gallery on Thursday 15th December will include lunch, mince pies and sherry! To book your place, […]

Article on the UNISON South East site.

University of Brighton branch release Anti-racism Toolkit

The branch hope their new toolkit will aid members in identifying and confronting racism in the workplace

Article, Black members news on the UNISON South East site.

Celebrating Black History Month 2022

Black Members in the South East unite this October

Article, News on the UNISON South East site.

Happy Diwali to all our South East members!

Celebrating the festival of lights

Article on the UNISON South East site.

Introducing Rosita Ellis – our new regional convenor

Her first role in the NHS was as a palliative care officer for the African-Caribbean community. "I had just lost my aunt to cancer and I was […]

Article on the UNISON South East site.

Working for a world without racism

Guest blog from University of Brighton’s Bill Acharjee

Article on the UNISON South East site.

Celebrating Black Women this International Women’s Day 2022 #BreaktheBias

Guest blog from Regional Convenor and Black Members Committee Chair Rosita Ellis for International Women’s Day 2022

Article on the UNISON South East site.

Growing participation in UNISON South East

Since the AGM in 2020, work has been underway to identify barriers to participation with our regional democracy and identify new initiatives to grow activism in our region

Article on the UNISON South East site.

Standing shoulder to shoulder with our Black colleagues

UNISON condemns the vile online racism towards the England football team

Article on the UNISON South East site.

Equality is at the heart of UNISON

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 […]

Article, Equality on the UNISON South East site.

UNISON South East Equality Calendar

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 […]

Page on the UNISON South East site.

A landmark verdict

The conviction of Derek Chauvin must be the first step towards positive change to tackle racial injustice

Article on the UNISON South East site.