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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

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. We suggest: Personal […]

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

This disproportionately impacts both women, as well as members of the LGBT+ community –who are also more likely to face social exclusion, isolation, and mental health […]

UNISON is the largest trade union representing healthcare students Join UNISON for £10 a year. That’s as little as 0.84p a month! We are dedicated to campaigning for a better deal for all healthcare students including Nursing, Midwifery, Occupational Therapist, Operating Department Practitioners, Children’s Health, Health Visitors, Nursery Nurse Paramedics & Paramedic Practitioners, Social work, […]

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 […]

National statistics show that young women are a particularly vaccine-hesitant group in society, with a recent survey finding that one […]

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

But for Sonia, membership isn’t enough. Her mission is to get more young workers actively involved in their local branches. “Young people are going to be paying for the […]

We’re now almost half way through TUC Young Workers Month 2020 and want to thank the young members who have already got in touch as part of our ‘Time to be Heard’ campaign. We have heard some really positive stories from our young members of their experiences of working throughout the pandemic, as well as […]

For UK trade unions, November is Young Workers month. Young workers are recognised within UNISON as being under-27 and have their own officers and section within our union. This means that that UNISON has dedicated resources that help our union’s 63,000 young workers to help amplify their voices and win on the issues that matter […]

November is young workers month and UNISON wants to hear directly from young workers on what support they need from their union

We meet Georgie, a 27 year old Support Worker who had to move out of her home to protect her family during the first wave of the pandemic