UNISON
UNISON is a UK trade union that represents public service workers, including those in local government, the NHS and health care, education support, police, probation and justice services, and the community, voluntary, energy and utilities sectors. It negotiates with employers over pay and working conditions and campaigns for public services.www.unison.org.uk
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Oct 7, 2026
Ndukwe OnuohaHOST
I, I'd, I'd also like you to chip in, um, uh, your, your, your activ- uh, your activities with the union, 'cause I know you're, you're one of the few, uh, Black, uh, people, uh, men or women who, who, who I know who sits at, uh, at, uh, on a national space in, in a trade union.
Ndukwe OnuohaHOST
And, uh, y- your, your union, Unison, 'cause, you know, w- um, um, we're not, we're not in the same union, but your union, Unison, has been very vocal about, uh, especially the, um, Shabana Mahmood's, um, 10-year rule, uh, or, or proposal on ILR.
Ndukwe OnuohaHOST
And in fact, uh, man, I don't know where you were that day, but I was going back to my Airbnb at conference, and I saw Unison members.
Ndukwe OnuohaHOST
I first heard them.
Ndukwe OnuohaHOST
They were singing-
Joseph OgundemurenGUEST
Yeah
Ndukwe OnuohaHOST
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Ndukwe OnuohaHOST
Unison and why people in our community should be part of a trade union.
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ELFT workers prepare for strikes against cuts, Bayard told Hammer.
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According to a recent investigation by the Unison Public Service Union, over 21,600 jobs are at risk across the NHS as the government seeks to cut £1.1 billion from frontline services.
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The job cull comes at a time when there is an urgent need to radically expand the NHS to meet population need.
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7.3 million cases remain on NHS waiting lists for physical health conditions and a further 1.7 million for mental health conditions.
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At TUC Congress 13th to 16th September, unions agreed to fight back against the interpretation now current of the April 2025 Supreme Court judgment which excludes trans people from facilities and activities such as union women's conferences for their gender.
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But it's not clear that union leaders are in any mood to carry out the policy.
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The situation is particularly difficult in the wake of the certification officer ruling in Flaherty v. Unison, the big public service union.
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Unison members... unison member stephen flaherty had brought a complaint that unison had breached rules when it let ellie wopple a trans woman run for a woman's seat in its national executive council elections in may twenty twenty five Walpole did not win.
Connor TomlinsonHOST
But they name other members of their coalition.
Connor TomlinsonHOST
So the National Education Union, Stand Up to Racism, Friends of the Earth, Unison, the Trade Union Congress, Unite the Union, and many more.
Connor TomlinsonHOST
And in other images, they've also shown the Fire Brigades Union, the University and College Union, UCU, responsible for the university strikes that robbed us of our tuition fees, Unite, RMT, ASLEF.
Connor TomlinsonHOST
It's basically anyone who drives the trains, the tubes, the trams, the buses, teachers in schools, fire brigades.
Alan FinlaysonHOST
Also Labour MPs who've come from that.
Jeremy GilbertHOST
Well, even today, this show is officially a big fan of Andrea Egan, leader of Unison, but also I think Dave Ward, leader of the Communication Workers Union, and Eddie Dempsey, leader of the RMT.
Jeremy GilbertHOST
They're all very, very intelligent people.
Jeremy GilbertHOST
explicators of of politics society and culture to people you know and that hasn't come through a kind of formal route of academic training i'm sure they've they've had some and actually something i was thinking about earlier in the first hour thinking to mention well i've had this sort of fantasy for years and i keep talking to people about it and i keep promising i'll get back to people who told me they're interested in the idea And it's for a YouTube channel that would be called something like Old Union Guys.
Ed BallsHOST
You did
George OsborneHOST
... leader of, uh, Unison, who-
Ed BallsHOST
Margaret Thatcher appointed Gavin Laird to the court of the Bank of England when she was Prime Minister.
Ed BallsHOST
Um, he was, um, the, uh, electricians', um, kind of-