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

Jon Cruddas

Book review – A Century of Labour

The ‘origin story’ of the party makes clear it has always been made up of many different strands – a ‘broad church’

A photo of James O'Brien

Book review – How They Broke Britain

James O’Brien takes aim at the ‘bad actors’ who damaged this country. By Amanda Kendal