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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

The survey takes about ten minutes, and completing it entitles you to go into the draw for up to £100 worth of shopping vouchers. The survey is confidential and anonymous, but if you wish […]

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 […]

Be part of the largest Trade Union in the UK. Health Care students are in a unique position as they work on the wards but do not have employment rights, and are […]

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 […]

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

November has been young workers month and this year the campaign was to celebrate and raise awareness of our young trade unionist activists in UNISON could not be more important.

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

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