Delegates discuss ways to increase engagement and encourage new activists to come forward
organising

Eastern convenor Darren Barber and vice president Margaret McKee honoured at annual congress
Raising the union’s profile is “like joining a gym: you don’t buy your ticket and then sit around waiting to get fit”

UNISON encourages members to mark Black History Month every year and to organise and recruit around it.

Unpaid, risking trouble at work and not always thanked – why do UNISON’s 40,000 activists do it?

Let’s work together to make this new hospital a success,” general secretary Dave Prentis said as he opened a new UNISON shop in Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital