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Ministers are reportedly considering delaying a single minimum wage for all adults. That’s worrying – and there’s more the government should be doing to support young adults
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Media reports that ministers are considering slowing down plans to pay adults of all ages the same minimum wage are worrying – but there’s even more the government can do to support young adults
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Each day throughout the holiday season, UniteLive will feature one of our twelve stories of the year. On the third day of Christmas, UniteLive looks back on a key win in the hospitality sector in August, when members, many of them young, took a brave stand against their employer, Village Hotels. Three weeks of strike […]
The post UniteLive’s 12 days of Xmas: Village workers win appeared first on Unite Live.
Unite delegate and construction worker Jimmy O’Malley, moved a motion on behalf of the Unite construction sector on better wages for apprentices, noting that “construction is in crisis”. He noted the scale of the challenges faced by government, which must address both the housing crisis and meet the country’s needs on infrastructure, flood defences and […]
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It’s TUC Young Workers’ Month and UNISON’s young members are using it to promote their campaign, Young Members’ Mental Health Matters!
The article Opinion: Why mental health matters for young workers first appeared on the UNISON National site.
It’s TUC Young Workers’ Month and UNISON’s young members are using it to promote their campaign, Young Members’ Mental Health Matters!
The article Opinion: Why mental health matters for young workers first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Do you know an exceptional young UNISON campaigner? Has any young member in your branch or region run a brilliant campaign? If so, UNISON wants to hear from you
The article Calling young campaigners first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Do you know an exceptional young UNISON campaigner? Has any young member in your branch or region run a brilliant campaign? If so, UNISON wants to hear from you
The article Calling young campaigners first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Unite recently ran a course for young members to give them the tools to become effective reps and organise in their workplaces. The Young Member Education Course took place over a week in Birmingham in June and aimed to equip young members and reps with a knowledge of Unite’s structures, break down some of the […]
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More must be done to develop young activists in UNISON, hears local government conference
The article Young members are ‘the future of our union’ first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Christina McAnea spoke about how the world of work has changed since she left school, saying: “Without doubt, being young today is so much harder”
The article Young members gather at conference in Newcastle first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Christina McAnea spoke about how the world of work has changed since she left school, saying: “Without doubt, being young today is so much harder”
The article Young members gather at conference in Newcastle first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Have young members in your region run a brilliant campaign? Do you know an exceptional young UNISON campaigner? If so, UNISON wants to hear from you.
The article Young campaigners: Eric Roberts Awards 2023 first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Have young members in your region run a brilliant campaign? Do you know an exceptional young UNISON campaigner? If so, UNISON wants to hear from you.
The article Young campaigners: Eric Roberts Awards 2023 first appeared on the UNISON National site.
The decision at national delegate conference increases the ceiling age of young members from 26 to 30, with a dramatic impact for the union’s activists and structures
The article UNISON raises the age limit for its young members first appeared on the UNISON National site.
A TUC report found that 68% of disabled women workers had been sexually harassed at work
The article Heartbreaking stories of workplace harassment heard at NDC first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Guest speaker Daniella Vega Sotelo, a member of the peasant farmer’s union FENSUAGRO, spoke of being a trade unionist in Colombia
The article Colombian trade unionist addresses young members first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Assistant general secretary Jon Richards welcomes delegates and speaks before a morning of debate
The article Young members’ conference opens with debates about cost of living first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Throughout the course of the event, delegates spoke time and again of how important UNISON had been over the past two years
The article UNISON hosts its first young members’ conference in Cardiff…Read more…
With vaccine hesitancy high among young women, UNISON members reassure others that there’s nothing to fear
The article ‘It’s a relief, a light at the end of the tunnel’ – young women and…Read more…