Young people from branches across Wales gathered in Cardiff for a series of training sessions aimed at the next generation of UNISON members.
Young people from branches across Wales gathered in Cardiff for a series of training sessions aimed at the next generation of UNISON members.
Calling all UNISON Cymru/Wales members aged 16-26, you are invited to register for our 2022 young members conference.
The award presentation will take place at our National Black History Month event in October and the winner will be invited to the National Black Members’ Conference in January. The deadline […]
We met with Rosie MacGregor, chair of UNISON’s retired members’ committee, and Jess McGuire, chair of UNISON’s young members’ committee, to talk about these very different […]
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 […]
UNISON Cymru/Wales Young Members Forum chair Nick Davies will be a key speaker at a Wales TUC event
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
UNISON hosted its first ever young members’ conference in Cardiff City Hall at the beginning of December, and the East Midlands was well represented. UNISON national young members forum chair – Lincolnshire’s Jess McGuire – welcomed delegates from across the union’s regions and nations, and three of the keynote speakers talked about how they had […]
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 […]
Cardiff City Hall played host to inaugural gathering of Young Members, with a speech from Angela Rayner MP
Throughout the course of the event, delegates spoke time and again of how important UNISON had been over the past two years
👋 Hello, I’m Jess McGuire from Lincolnshire and I’m the Chair of the National Young Members Forum. The weekend of 3rd – 5th December marked an important milestone for our union’s young members and the history of UNISON in general as young members held their first ever conference at City Hall in Cardiff. When I […]
She said: “You can be different, you can be spicy, you can be an agitator – and in UNISON, people will like you for it rather than reject you.” Introduced by vice chair of […]
We hear from one of our Young Member activists on why they felt they had to stand up for young workers
To celebrate Young Workers’ Month this November, we asked some of UNISON Eastern’s young members about why they joined