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Gordon McKay urges activists to continue the fight against Conservative policies that knowingly hurt working people

UNISON’s National Executive Council (NEC) has elected Gordon McKay, a mental health nurse from Kilbirnie, Ayrshire, as president at the union’s annual national conference in Brighton. Gordon started working for the NHS in 1987 and joined UNISON’s predecessor, NUPE, on the same day. Gordon, who has been part of the presidential team for a year, […]

UNISON president and hospital catering assistant Margaret McKee gives rousing speech to women’s conference

‘We should make Eric proud by continuing on in the union – let’s make and keep this the best union’

Wendy Nichols opens national delegate conference, reminding delegates that hard work has had a massive effect over the last year

UNISON president Wendy Nichols opens women’s conference in Brighton with call to action

Wendy Nichols has been elected President of UNISON, the UK’s biggest public service union, following its annual conference in Glasgow

‘We’re changing the union to keep up with changing times’

There is still time for branches to make donations to the president’s charity

I will miss his honesty. I will miss his infectious personality. But most of all I will miss his friendship. Eric Roberts was a good man who gave so much to so many people. Eric said upon his election as President that UNISON was the “best union in the country”, but the truth is that Eric was the best of us

Joint statement from general secretary Dave Prentis and president Eric Roberts

Eric Roberts looks forward to a year as the president of ‘the best union in the country’

New presidential team announced as NEC meets for the first time since national delegate conference closes

Ayrshire mental health nurse Gordon Mckay knew he had to act when he saw a colleague reduced to tears by a manager in the 1990s – now he’s the union president

Chris Tansley is new president, with Maureen le Marinel and Lucia McKeever as vice presidents