This year, 14 May is ODP Day. What’s an ODP? It’s an operating department practitioner – and it might be the best career you’ve never heard of, as two UNISON members explain
UNISON people
The chairs of UNISON’s young and retired members’ committees share their thoughts about the different challenges and motivations facing their members
Having survived a disastrous period of part-privatisation, UNISON members in the Probation Service are still undervalued and underpaid. Lee Middlemass is one of them
UNISON meets two of the thousands of Filipino nurses dedicated to the NHS
UNISON has discovered cases of care home employers trapping overseas nurses in exploitative workplaces and charging them thousands of pounds if they try to leave
Some of UNISON’s lowest-paid women members are representing the needs of fellow workers from different levels of the union’s leadership
A year to the day, UNISON meets the NHS matron who administered the world’s first COVID-19 vaccination
UNISON’s in-house legal team has had a busy year, whether securing millions of pounds in personal injury claims, protecting pensions or defending strikers from intimidation
UNISON member Maggie Fordham is a support worker in her local UNISON branch. Here, she writes about some of the remarkable school caretakers she’s met in her job.
UNISON meets with some of our trans members to mark Transgender Awareness Week