Two cream and red buses, one behind the other, outside shops in Brighton

On the buses

Austerity has had a negative impact on bus services across the country, which has heavily affected women in particular. But hope is coming, as Amanda Kendal discovers

Some of the members of the emergency department at William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, Kent, receiving the 2024 Nursing Times team of the year award, which was sponsored by UNISON.

UNISON sponsored Nursing Times team award ‘means the world’

Nursing Times team of the year award goes to a Kent hospital emergency department team that turned itself around

UNISON members of the LGBT+ group at UNISON Centre with UNISON LGBT+ flags and banners during The Year of LGBT+ Workers

An ‘ace’ year for LGBT+ members 

Members reflect on the 2024 Year of LGBT+ Workers – what it has achieved, how it has benefited from UNISON’s previous ‘Years of’ and brought people together

Glenn Carrington in paramedic uniform, sitting on the back of an ambulance

Black History Month: ‘We’re here, we’re contributing’

From Windrush to the summer’s far-right riots, UNISON’s Black members have important stories to tell

Healthcare assistants rally outside James Cook University Hospital on Teeside

Why organising to win is a win-win

A successful campaign to get healthcare assistants in two Teesside hospital trusts re-banded, with back pay, is a textbook illustration of the value of the strategy

Portrait of Greg Marshall

Get set for Green UNISON Week by becoming a citizen scientist

Greg Marshall, the chair of UNISON’s Environment Agency sector committee, explains how to become a citizen scientist, as we near Green UNISON Week

Birmingham City Council building

Stats reveal the impact of funding cuts on local government

One story is an anecdote – the stories of millions of workers become statistics

Chris Tansley (centre) receiving an award from Christina McAnea and East Midlands regional secretary Chris Jenkinson

‘I could see what we were trying to create’

Former UNISON president Chris Tansley looks back on over four decades of service – first to Nalgo and then to UNISON

Carola Towle and Jackie Lewis discussing campaigning for LGBT+ rights and equality

Get loud, get proud

This is UNISON’s Year of LGBT+ Workers. Amanda Kendal joined two legends of the fight for equality, Carola Towle and Jackie Lewis, to find out why now is a good time

Hand of a woman putting a folded piece of paper in a ballot box

How to … vote and get the vote out

With 2024 being a big year for elections, UNISON policy officer David Arnold explores how to vote – including new ID requirements – and how to encourage others to vote too