How we can be stronger, together

UNISON is running a major recruitment campaign and going for growth. After years of austerity and job losses, now is the time to grow together. We are keen for the union to represent the tens of thousands of workers who are not yet members and have no defence against the attacks on their jobs, wages and conditions. In many workplaces, 50% or less of the people working there are members of UNISON. In an ideal world, we should be 100% unionised. And we will do everything in our power to help our activists achieve that. “We need to strengthen the union,” says general secretary Dave Prentis. “We need to make sure that the activists are supported and we need to make sure that our members and potential members know that UNISON is there for them.” The more members we have, the more UNISON can campaign to protect public services and the workers who provide them, to stop discrimination, to fight for equality of opportunity and for better pay and conditions of service. Organised workplaces give members a stronger sense of confidence and ability to change things, together with much higher chances of winning recognition where it doesn’t exist. UNISON has kept our membership roughly stable despite 700,000 public service jobs being axed since the start of austerity. And that’s because of all the hard work that our union – and especially our activists – have done during that period. However, there are still large pockets of people who have never joined a union – and w...
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