2023: Year of Black Workers

This is UNISON’s Year of Black Workers. 2023 will be UNISON’s Year of the Black Worker. The initiative launched at the National Black Members Conference and at our Regional Council AGM on 8th February, with the theme “establishing legacy to generate change”.  The Regional Council AGM agreed a motion affirming its support for the Year […]

Bring Them In – UCL

UNISON’s ‘Bring Them In’ Campaign started early 2019, with the aim of bringing back in house the cleaning, catering and security staff at UCL. The staff are currently employed by Bidvest Noonan, Sodexo and Ch&Co. In April 2020, as a result of successful campaigning by UNISON, we achieved almost full parity of terms and conditions […]

Tower Rewards

Well done to Tower Hamlets UNISON for a fantastic result with 98% of members in schools and 89.6% in councils voting YES!  UNISON members working for Tower Hamlets Council and in Community Schools are celebrating after smashing through the industrial action thresholds set by the Tory government. In a ballot that closed on Friday 21st […]

#OneNHSFamily: Homerton hospital

UNISON members at Homerton hospital yesterday handed in a petition with over 3000 signatures calling on contractor ISS to honour an agreement made in 2017 to pay the London Living Wage. Following campaigning by the Branch, ISS, who employs cleaners, catering portering and security staff at the hospital, finally began to pay the LLW in […]