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Recruits who work for private companies or community and voluntary organisations have been an important and growing part of our union for a number of years. And they account for […]

Congratulations to London Ambulance Service branch’s Battersea station who are the overall winners of our Grovember branch noticeboards competition

UNISON’s final NEC meeting of 2018 opened with “good news to end the year on and a great way to start 2019”. A report on the month-long campaign for growth that the union ran in November – or Grovember as it was dubbed within the union – showed every region and every service group in […]

It makes me incredibly proud to say that, because I know what it means. It means that despite a decade of austerity, pay cuts, job […]

General secretary Dave Prentis said: “Over the past month, our whole union has come together and delivered something special. “During November, we recruited over 18,000 new members […]

November in UNISON was Grovember – an all out push across the union to grow our membership. Although UNISON is now the largest trade union in the UK, there are still many more public service workers who are yet to receive the benefits of membership. And of course, the more members our union has, the […]

LGBT conference met in Harrogate, where delegates unanimously backed a call to change the group name to be LGBT+ to increase inclusivity. This will now be taken to the union's […]

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Scotland and the North West also pick up trophies as the annual LGBT recruitment awards are announced in Harrogate