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Dear comrades, Happy new year! We hope January is being kind to you so far. We’re back with a bumper new year’s newsletter – including strike updates, AGM info and upcoming events to look forward to.  📣 Strike update  As most in the branch are aware, we got a resounding mandate in the strike ballot

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👀 Key Details 🤔 What is the AGM?  The Annual General Meeting or AGM is your opportunity to elect your branch activists and agree policy, priorities, and finances for 2026. You can also ask questions, meet like-minded colleagues, and learn more about union activities in this year’s keynote workshop, ‘UNISON 101 – understanding and getting active in your union’.  All members

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🙌 Unison’s new general secretary is socialist social worker Andrea Egan Andrea’s win is a win for us; our branch committee is confident this marks a huge step forward in our fight as a Higher Education UNISON branch. She’s keen for UNISON’s different sectors to not have to fight over the union’s resources, and most

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2026 is UNISON’s Year of Green Activity – Our Environmental Officer Lucie ROse has more: Good tidings comrades!   What with all the business around securing a strike over our pitiful pay offer (huzzah!), I haven’t had much chance to focus on that which really gets my fires burning (from sustainable sources, obviously), Green issues! 2026 is Unison’s ‘Year of

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📣 UNISON young members’ Conference 2025 In November, our International officer Eleni headed to Brighton for UNISON’s National Young Members’ Conference. Here’s how she got on: I attended the YM Conference in Brighton as first-time delegate. It was my first UNISON conference, and it gave me a real insight into how the union’s democratic processes

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📣 UNISON HE & FE Conference 2025 In November, committee members Alex K (co-branch sec), the other Alex (co-comms officer), Elle (branch chair), Mia (co-comms officer), and Verity (women’s officer) travelled to York for UNISON’s Higher Education (HE) and Further Education (FE) seminar.   There were two days of workshops, collaboration and talks, including a lot of discussion about the current pay ballot.  📝 workshops Our delegation made sure to cover the

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The results are in! Over 60% of us returned our pay ballot, and of those that did, 92.6% voted YES for strike action relating to this year’s pay offer. ✊  🤔 What does this mean?  Because we hit the 50% turnout threshold, and because more than 50% of returned ballots were “yes” votes, our branch

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