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We have over 4,000 members in Plymouth in UNISON, with Branch Officers, Stewards and Health & Safety Reps located throughout the city you have a strong local Branch support network ready to help you wherever and whenever you need us.
Members in Plymouth in UNISON are people working in the public services, or for private contractors providing public services. They include staff working full or part time in local authorities, the NHS, colleges and schools and the voluntary sector. Employers include: Plymouth City Council, Livewell Southwest, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust and City College Plymouth. We negotiate on behalf of our members for better pay and conditions, help individuals in trouble and campaign for a safer, fairer society.
UNISON is one of Britain’s biggest union, representing more than 1.3 million members across the UK’s public services.
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All the latest news from your Branch and beyondCare for Sirona Carers
https://southwest.unison.org.uk/campaigns/care-for-carers-sirona-banes/ The South West TUC is supporting care workers at Sirona Care who have been told by management to accept a thirty minute ‘unpaid break’ into most shifts. Care workers would then either lose half an...
read moreUNISON briefing on a Government consultation – “strengthening pension trustees’ investment duties
Please find attached a UNISON briefing on a very important development. Pension funds pay very little if any attention to the views of scheme members on how their money is invested and how their property rights, such as voting shares at company AGMs, are managed....
read moreHelp with School Uniform Costs from “There for You”
SUG 2018 Final Poster (1) Application Form with Survey SUG 2018 Final (1) QandA Final SUG 2018...
read moreLocal Government Service Group Conference
This years Local Government Conference was unusually harmonious with all motions passed overwhelmingly. The key campaigning issue for the year will be around local government funding, and this will go hand in hand with specific campaigns to to raise to profile of what...
read moreSeaside summer holiday offer with Croyde Bay
UNISON is offering HALF PRICE holidays to members in the last week of the school holidays. UNISON and UNISON Croyde Bay have teamed up to bring you this fantastic UNISON member exclusive summer break. A family of four can stay in the hotel with breakfast between...
read moreDave Jolly’s Pensioner’s Parliament Blog
Day 1. Assembled with loads of other retirees and marched to the winter gardens with the Branch Banner. Pictures of the event with me holding the Branch Banner were loaded on the Facebook pages. On our return to the Winter Gardens, Parliament opened by the Mayor of...
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