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Date

16 April 2020 4:00pm–5:00pm

Location

UNISON Centre

Covid-19: All meetings and events are postponed until end of May 2020   Outcome

Date

20 – 21 March 2020

Location

Crowne Plaza Nottingham, Wollaton Street, NG1 5RH

Young Members UNISON East Midlands AGM and training weekend to be held at the Crowne Plaza in Nottingham from 5.00pm 7.00pm Friday March 20th (dinner will be provided) and from 10.00 – 2.00pm on Saturday 21st March (lunch provided) in Nottingham. This should be a great event. It is an opportunity to meet and work […]

Funmi Ayeni addresses conference after winning inaugural award

Date

1 – 3 May 2020

Location

Crown Plaza Glasgow - Congress Rd, Glasgow G3 8QT

Outcome

UNISON is a partner of the Amos Bursary, which supports talented year 12 students from challenging environments for a total of five years, through their university experience and into the world of work or further study

Being young and female in 2019

The final debates at national conference witnessed passionate debates on sexual harassment in the workplace and raising the profile of disabled members

Young members talk about their concerns, their hopes and their achievements at national delegate conference

Date

13 July 2019 1:00am–1:00am

Want to get involved? Contact: Nina Arkley, Regional Young Members Lead Phone: 0191 245 0800 Email: n.region@unison.co.uk Outcome

Young workers have rights around pay, holiday, health and safety and equalities that exist to protect them in the workplace. It’s vital that every young worker knows and understands their rights to make sure their employers aren’t breaking the rules. UNISON, in partnership with Wranx, have launched a free bite sized digital tool which uses […]

Health delegates embrace the commitments of UNISON’s year of young workers

UNISON launches #OneWageAnyWage campaign is it celebrates 20 years of the national minimum wage

We’ve been following the Apprentice Learning Network at Poole Borough Council for a while now, and we’ve been consistently impressed by the way that the apprentices have supported each other, made use of the resources available to them, and promoted learning opportunities. In this piece Freya Kendall, one of the founder members, explains how the […]

Matthew Hodgson is a UNISON learning rep and branch young members’ officer for United Utilities in the North West. In this blog he talks about his own experiences as a learner and explains how branches can reach out to young workers with learning opportunities. As a young person I was sadly treated with a stereotypical […]

Youth Services at Breaking Point is based on responses to a freedom of information request (FoI), which was sent to all UK local authorities that provide […]