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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

The region’s Young Members are coming together after the toughest 18 months of their lives

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 […]

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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 going on. The calendar […]

With vaccine hesitancy high among young women, UNISON members reassure others that there’s nothing to fear

Young Workers Month is held every year to promote the importance of trade unions in modern life and to focus on […]

Marking the TUC’s Young Workers’ Month, Sonia from the West Midlands shares her perspective

“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 […]

“Young workers month is a great opportunity to talk about the issues facing young workers. We are conducting a […]