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Strike placard & badge making!
Join us to help make placards and badges for our upcoming strike action! All materials provided. đwhere? Unison office, 1D priory road, BS8 1TX đ when? 12-2pm Weds 28th Jan and Weds 4th Feb Drop in on your lunch break for as little or long as you like!
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January 2026 newsletter
Dear comrades, Happy new year! We hope January is being kind to you so far. Weâre back with a bumper new yearâs newsletter â including strike updates, AGM info and upcoming events to look forward to. đŁ Strike update As most in the branch are aware, we got a resounding mandate in the strike ballot
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2026 AGM
đ Key Details đ€ 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 yearâs keynote workshop, âUNISON 101 â understanding and getting active in your unionâ. All members
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A Win for Higher Education & The Left – Our new Gen Sec
đ 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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Message from Your Environmental Officer – Year of Green Activity đ±
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 havenât had much chance to focus on that which really gets my fires burning (from sustainable sources, obviously), Green issues! 2026 is Unisonâs âYear of
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Dispatches from Brighton
đŁ 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 unionâs democratic processes
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Dispatches from York
đŁ 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 (womenâs 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. đ workshops Our delegation made sure to cover the
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We did it! â
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. â đ€ 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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We’re backing Andrea Egan for general secretary
â UNISONâs general secretary for the next five years will be decided by its members. The ballot will run from 28 Oct-25 Nov. This vote will be via post, which will include the candidate manifestos. At our most recent branch committee meeting, we voted unanimously to back Andrea Egan for General Secretary as she: đ
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September 2025 Newsletter: Upcoming strike ballot, Branch social, General Secretary nomination, and more
Dear comrades, We hope youâre having a great welcome week (and if youâre feeling overworked and underpaid, nowâs the time to get energized to fight for a better pay rise â join our pay action group, more info below!) Take a well-deserved break and catch up on our latest news, including strike ballot updates,