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

Photo of Rachel Reeves holding the red budget box

The budget

UNISON’s policy team analyses what it means for members and public services

A still image from the film, showing people walking through a train station, sped up. It reads: "The Employment Rights Bill will transform life at work.

The Employment Rights Bill: a better life at work

What is it? How will it change members’ working lives? How did we get here? And what happens next? An introduction to the ERB

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

A graphic showing a brick wall with 'Firm Foundations: A UNISON series on the housing crisis" written on the bricks

Firm Foundations – housing: a basic human right

In the first of a series on the UK housing crisis, Simon Jackson explores the many issues involved, what the government intends to do about them, and what UNISON is doing

A better life at work: a life-changing charter for working women 

In our new series focused on the government’s Employment Rights Bill, UNISON’s legal team considers the many benefits in the proposed legislation for the union’s one million women members 

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

Photograph of a senior couple, sitting in front of a radiator, the woman holding gas bill

‘Heat or eat’: a retired member looks ahead to a tough winter

UNISON predicts that a ‘significant number’ of its 167,000 retired members are going to struggle as a result of the government changes to the winter fuel allowance

The game changer

UNISON policy officer Guy Collis on what a fair pay agreement – as touted in the government’s New Deal For Working People – would mean for the care sector

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