Dad, Grandad 👴🏾, Regional Secretary UNISON Southwest . Firm believer that another world is possible.... All views expressed are entirely my own 🏳️🌈✊🏾
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For #BlackHistoryMonth we asked some of our Black members why they’re in @unisontheunion.
Here’s what Rodney had to say.
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"There is modern slavery happening right now."
Migrant care workers are told to stay silent, accept poor treatment and endure exploitation because they are tied to a single employer.
It's a system that traps workers with abusive employers.
We need a better way. #FairVisasNow
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Today, we remember Stephen Lawrence on what would have been his 52nd birthday 🙏🏾🕊️
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Government plans for a major reorganisation of local authorities have been put on hold.
Now ministers must prioritise a solution to the long-running funding crisis blighting communities across the country, says UNISON buff.ly/CC3qnKY
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The decision to pause local government reorganisation piles more uncertainty on staff.
It's vital the experts who deliver council services have a proper say going forward.
unison.org.uk/press/2026/09/…
ALT This pause prolongs the uncertainty felt by local government employees. Their jobs, futures and the services they deliver are in even greater limbo. Staff should always be at the heart of a reorganisation of this scale. Stronger authorities are only made possible by a skilled, experienced and motivated workforce. Mike Short, UNISON head of local government
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A MUST READ: CARIBBEAN MUSIC IS FOR LIFE, NOT JUST FOR CARNIVAL!
Music industry veteran and Caribbean culture specialist @raypmg pens an op-ed about celebrating the region's impactful music all year round
mixmag.net/feature/caribbean…
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📢 Care workers: your chance to shape the first ever Fair Pay Agreement.
UNISON will lead negotiations in 2027, and we want to hear from you. Complete our short survey and help the fight for better pay, conditions and recognition across social care.
🔗 unsn.uk/CareFPA
ALT Care worker at the door of elderly person showing ID. Help share fair pay in social care.
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Rest in Power, true Black excellence! 🕊️
La mathématicienne Gladys West, dont les travaux ont rendu le GPS possible, est décédée à 95 ans limportant.fr/infos-selectio… #Rediff
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💜 Public service workers show up for us every day. Now we need the government to show up for them.
Hear from Micaela Tracey-Ramos on why ministers must recognise and support the people who keep our public services running.
#WeShowUp unison.org.uk/we-show-up
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"When people talk about the need for Black Excellence I counter with an insistence on Black mediocrity: the right for black people to be as average, flawed, compromised & mistaken as any other group of people. The right, ultimately, to be human." R.I.P. Jason Arday
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Response to the decision made by the Certification Officer in Flaherty v UNISON unison.org.uk/news/2026/08/r…
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🚨 STRIKE BALLOT: Council and school workers
Being worse off is not a pay rise. Your pay has fallen by over 20% in real terms since 2010. It’s not fair. And it’s time to have your say.
🗳 Strike ballot opens 9 July
Vote YES for strike action
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Today is Windrush Day
The Windrush generation helped build our post-war public services—yet many faced injustice, losing jobs, homes, and even deportation
At our Black Members Conference we pledged to continue the fight for justice and against racism
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ALT National Windrush Monument, created by Basil Watson, at Waterloo station
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I was born in Stockport, but raised in UNISON.
Honoured to be invited to address #uNDC26 💚💜
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“As a former care worker, I stood with today’s care workers last week. Because fairness means enforcing the rules not ripping them up”
@AngelaRayner addresses UNISON members at their annual conference #uNDC26
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We won sick pay, pregnancy protections and an end to no-fault evictions because workers and renters organised and demanded them. Now Reform UK's Great Repeal Bill pledges to scrap the Employment Rights Act, the Renters' Rights Act, and even the Equality Act that protects you from discrimination at work.
Scrapping your rights won't lower your bills or raise your pay. It just hands power to bad bosses and rogue landlords.
Workers across the country are putting posters up in their workplaces and telling Parliament: oppose the Great Repeal Bill.
Take 30 seconds and sign the petition now:
megaphone.org.uk/petitions/s…
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Yorkshire and Humberside member Chukwuemeka Aluu (right) was among the @unisontheunion delegation who visited 10 Downing Street on Wednesday to deliver a letter to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, highlighting the devastating impact visa changes will have.
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“You came to this country with a promise, we should fulfil that promise”
@AngelaRayner speaking to hundreds of care workers at the #FairVisasNow rally in Parliament Square yesterday
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You voted against scrapping zero hour contracts.
You voted against banning fire and rehire.
You voted against day one sick pay for workers.
You said the minimum wage was too high for young people.
Reform politicians openly say they don't like trade unions.
You will always put the interests of your offshore crypto billionaire donors ahead of workers.
