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National day of protest
Take a stand against job and funding cuts. Join lunchtime protests outside further education colleges in England.
More than 50 colleges in England have announced redundancies over the past few weeks. And in the past few days many more colleges have announced plans to close their nurseries.
UNISON is asking members to take a stand now by organising lunchtime protests this Friday (July 3rd) outside FE colleges in England over job cuts and funding.
Stop the BNP
UNISON members across the country are standing up to the politics of hate and campaigning to prevent the racist BNP winning seats in the European elections.
On Thursday 4 June every union member will be given the chance to stop the BNP and the politics of hate by voting in the European elections.
Join in
Find out more about our campaign
Happy 10th Birthday National Minimum wage!
We celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Minimum wage across the Region this April!
Branches were also asked to find ways to mark this important event and to remind everyone of this key part of employment protection that UNISON campaigned for many years to achieve.
Over the last 10 years it's raised the living standards of the lowest paid, and helped close the gap between men and women's pay.
Soon the Low Pay Commission will be making this year's recommendation to the government on the national minimum wage.
see www.minimumwage.org.uk
Put People First G20 Demonstration 28th of March
On the 28th of March thousands marched through London as part of a global campaign to challenge the G20 ahead of their summit on the 2nd of April.
Thank you to all who came to the demonstration from round the region and for those of you who struggled with this wind to carry your branch banners.
UNISON had a great turnout and this did help put pressure on the G20 leaders.
UNISON said we are encouraged by the G20 summit taking ‘steps in the right direction’- but we feel a lot more needs to be done on the global financial crisis and climate change. We also still have worries about gaining agreement to the importance of public services so we will continue to lobby and campaign around these issues. click here for more including pictures from the event.
Site Rebuild
We are currently rebuilding this site and hope to be launching soon. These are temporary pages (although all the links should work!).
Thank you to all to the branches and individuals who took part in our consultations.
If you would like to contact us with ideas for the future site, or to get involved, please email heading ‘Unison Eastern Website’ to:
m.services@unison.co.uk
Yours Sincerely
Paul Farley
Regional Convenor.
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What is UNISON?
UNISON is the largest public sector trade union and operates throughout the country. UNISON members are people working in the public services, for private contractors providing public services and the essential utilities.
Our members include those working in all the types of jobs, full or part time in local authorities, staff in the NHS except clinicians, non-teaching staff in colleges and schools, and all grades in the electricity, gas and water industries, transport and the voluntary sector. Click here for our national website.
Why join a union?
For a list of some good reasons click here
What is a union branch?
Every member of UNISON belongs to a local branch which is usually made up of people working for the same employer in your local area.
Want to join?
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What is a steward?
Sometimes called union representatives, local stewards are there to help you
If you would like to be a steward or active in one of the many other ways, get in touch with us! Get Active?
