Unison
About Unison
UNISON is one of the UK's largest trade unions, serving more than 1.3 million members.
We represent full-time and part-time staff who provide public services, although they may be employed in both the public and private sectors. Our members work in local government, health care, colleges and schools, the police service and the voluntary sector as well as in transport, the electricity, gas and water industries.
Find out more about the benefits of being a member
We support our members by helping them to improve their working conditions in a number of ways.
- We help and advise individual members who are facing difficulties at work.
- We help our members to group together to campaign for improved working conditions.
- We represent our members in negotiation with employers.
- We make sure our members get equal treatment and fair pay.
- We offer a wide range of benefits to our members, from free legal and welfare advice to offering big savings on services such as home insurance.
There’s never been a more important time to be in a union. General secretary Dave Prentis talks about the issues facing working people and why they should join UNISON.
UNISON Personal Assistants Support Network
Are you a Personal Assistant?
Personal Assistants provide care and support to enable people to lead quality and independent lives.
Personal Assistants (PAs) provide support and care for people who have social care needs. But who supports the PA's?
UNISON is the union for Personal Assistants, and this web site is here to make sure PA's have a place to come to find out about their rights and share experiences.
Unison wants to do more for Personal Assistants. We have set up an ONLINE network so that Personal Assistants can share experience, mentor and support each other.
The idea is to grow a "community" of Personal Assistants that will work with Unison to deliver access to training and development, promote excellent care practise,help lift the employment status of the profession and ultimately secure better outcomes for Individuals.
Unison is the Union for all social care staff. We are concerned about the pay and working conditions of Personal Assistants. There are no national guidelines or mandatory training. If Local Authorities set the Direct Payments too low this penalises both the Personal Assistant and the Individual Employer.
It is difficult to suddenly become an employer and we want to support Individual Employers as well as the Personal Assistants on educating around employment issues.
Join our community
UNISON want to establish a network so PA's can share experiences, mentor and support each other. You can join the community for free by filling out the simple form enclosed.
Contact Us
If you have a query about your membership or a problem at work go to our help page which contains a number of useful links and online forms that members can fill in to change their membership details or make general enquiries.
For regional offices visit our regions page.
UNISON
UNISON Centre
130 Euston Road
London
NW1 2AY
Call UNISONdirect on 0800 0 857 857 (freephone textphone 0800 0 967 968). Lines are open 6am-midnight Monday-Friday and 9am-4pm Saturday.
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Upcoming events
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Future Events
If you would like further details about the 55+ and Retirement Roadshows or would like to take part in any of these exhibitions, please contact info@retirementroadshow.co.uk
or
Victoria.milsom@thenationalcareline.org
Testimonials from visitors of previous shows
Kidderminster 12-6-16 at The Town Hall.
Just a few lines to thank you for the wonderful hospitality shown to me on Saturday. I enjoyed myself immensely and I was good to chat with the exhibitors at the Roadshow. My sincere thanks and gratitude to everyone involved. Councillor Mary Rayner, Mayor of Kidderminster
The Guildhall, Worcester 25-3-2017
"I thoroughly enjoyed walking around and talking to so many people at the event. It was so informative and I saw so many people doing good for others who were less fortunate than themselves. This kind of activity is so important for any civilized society so a very big "thank you" to you for organizing it all." Mr A
Mr and Mrs M said, " wonderful show, packed with information".
Mrs J said," I am so glad that I went in, there was something for everyone. I will definitely be going again next year".
The Guildhall, Worcester 9-3-2019
Take a look at the video of our latest show. We were very busy from start to finish.
It was a great day and enjoyed by all. Click this link and take a look.
You could also view what went on when we last visited Kidderminster
watch the Retirement Roadshow video
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