With another general election less than a week away, UNISON’s presidential team took a few minutes out to discuss some of their main concerns
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UNISON president Josie Bird talks to Demetrios Matheou about the people and places that have inspired and motivated her trade union life

Gordon McKay opens union’s national delegate conference in Liverpool highlighting victories and the benefits of being in UNISON

UNISON’s new president Gordon McKay talks about his ambitions for his year in office

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

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
UNISON’s national executive council has elected Margaret McKee, a catering assistant from Belfast, as president at the union’s annual national conference in Brighton. Margaret has been a catering assistant at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast for 38 years. She has been an activist for most of that time as well as joint chair of […]

Now is its time of need: the NHS needs us and we cannot be found wanting, vice-president Carol Sewell tells demonstration

Women in prison, suicide and domestic violence are just some of the issues UNISON vice president Margaret McKee is tackling

UNISON president Eric Roberts tells TUC unions must make the case for a system which gets better outcomes for union members and employers