A UNISON activist’s dedicated leadership of a campaign to protect and enhance homecare services has earned high praise from his region.
UNISON Cymru/Wales has awarded Mark Fisher its annual Billy Liddon Award, presented to the activist deemed as having contributed the most to supporting and representing UNISON members in Wales in the past year.
Mr Fisher was nominated by his local branch, for the leadership he provided during the campaign for homecare services run by the council in Neath Port Talbot.
The campaign was successful in retaining and enhancing the in-house homecare service, and has led to an improved balance between private and public homecare provision. The Neath Port Talbot home care team is also benefitting from the recruitment of new members.
Dominic MacAskill, UNISON Cymru/Wales head of local government, commented: “Mark is a tremendous workforce representative and has demonstrated a clear vision and campaigning aptitude, which has protected and improved this valuable public service.
“This has been a major boost for upwards of 300 local homecare workers, many of whom are low-paid women workers who have now had their pay and conditions enhanced.”
The award is named after a long-standing and popular activist in UNISON’s Rhondda Cynon Taf branch, who died from cancer in 2009.
