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Thanks for taking the time to talk to us. Let’s start with a little bit about you. When did you join UNISON […]

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

Cardiff City Hall played host to inaugural gathering of Young Members, with a speech from Angela Rayner MP.

“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 […]

The 2018 National Young Members’ Weekend took place in Milton Keynes this year with 120 young members from around the country attending. South East Young Members turned out in force, with 13 delegates from a variety of local government, health, police and higher education branches coming together to discuss activism, recruitment and campaigns. The weekend […]

Date

1 September 2016 – 31 January 2018

The South East Young Members’ Forum has launched a campaign aimed at persuading the government to introduce rent capping in the South East. The South East has the second highest median rents, where private rental properties cost an average of £852 per month. The median rental values in London and the South East have grown […]

The motion called on the young members' forum to work with the UNISON national Labour Link forum to make sure that the issue is raised within […]

Introducing the motion, the chair of the Welsh regional young members forum Ryan Hopkins said that harassment is one of the key issues raised by young members in the union […]

Download the Young Black Member Award nomination form This award was introduced by the National Black Members’ Committee (NBMC) in 2019, UNISON’s […]

The conference opened with a tangible sense of excitement –º for many delegates, it was their first UNISON conference. UNISON national young members forum chair […]

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

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

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Funmi Ayeni addresses conference after winning inaugural award

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