Gordon McKay opens union’s national delegate conference in Liverpool highlighting victories and the benefits of being in UNISON
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UNISON’s new president Gordon McKay talks about his ambitions for his year in office

Ayrshire mental health nurse Gordon Mckay knew he had to act when he saw a colleague reduced to tears by a manager in the 1990s – now he’s the union president

UNISON’s National Executive Council (NEC) has elected Gordon McKay, a mental health nurse from Kilbirnie, Ayrshire, as president at the union’s annual national conference in Brighton. Gordon started working for the NHS in 1987 and joined UNISON’s predecessor, NUPE, on the same day. Gordon, who has been part of the presidential team for a year, […]

UNISON president opens union’s national delegate conference in Brighton

UNISON president and hospital catering assistant Margaret McKee gives rousing speech to women’s conference
UNISON’s national executive council has elected Margaret McKee, a catering assistant from Belfast, as president at the union’s annual national conference in Brighton. Margaret has been a catering assistant at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast for 38 years. She has been an activist for most of that time as well as joint chair of […]

Now is its time of need: the NHS needs us and we cannot be found wanting, vice-president Carol Sewell tells demonstration

‘We should make Eric proud by continuing on in the union – let’s make and keep this the best union’

