Unison City of Edinburgh

14/07/2025

⚠️Warm weather advice⚠️

Working in extreme heat can impact workers in many ways, especially those colleagues that are pregnant, menopausal, or those with

26/06/2025

This is an exciting opportunity to join the UNISON Scotland Organising Team. Our public services are under major threat. DescriptionOur members are

22/06/2025

🌈 Great turn out from UNISON City of Edinburgh and Lothian Health Branch at yesterday’s Edinburgh PRIDE parade. Fantastic celebration 🎉

19/06/2025

📢 NDC Motion 14 Sexual Harassment

Fiona Park, UNISON branch officer and first time delegate speaking in support of the motion today.

19/06/2025

🇵🇸 Palestine Solidarity Campaign Fringe meeting today

Guest speaker, Shaher Saed, General Secretary of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions was unable to join us in person because he was not permitted to leave Palestine when the border to Jordan was closed earlier this week.

19/06/2025

📣 NDC Update Thursday 19th June

The full UNISON Cymru delegation to NDC looking great in their uniforms.

Conference agreed to remove the English word Wales (meaning strangers) from the rule book and replaced with Cymru (meaning compatriots)

19/06/2025

🇨🇺 Cuba Solidarity Campaign (CSC) Fringe meeting- NDC Wednesday 18th June

May Day Brigade - UNISON Young Members visited Cuba in the spring to deliver medical aid, sharing their experiences at the CSC Fringe meeting.

https://cuba-solidarity.org.uk/tours/article/2/young-trade-unionistsrsquo-may-day-brigade-2025

18/06/2025

📢 Katrina Baird speaking at UNISON's College Conference Fringe meeting today. You can listen to her full speech here

18/06/2025

🟣🟢 Conference Fringe - UNISON College 'This is us, this is our learning'

Katrina Baird, (pictured below) speaking at UNISON's College Conference Fringe meeting today.

18/06/2025

📣 National Delegate Conference - Wednesday 18th June - International speaker Lee Saunders

Lee Saunders, the first Black American President of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) addressed UNISON's national delegate conference today.

Lee discussed the dangers to workers posed by Donald Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill". The BBB is straight out of Project 2025. The unions in the USA didn't fight hard enough to defeat Trump in 2024. Let this be a warning for us that if we let our guard down, the worst parts (of the BBB) will soon be the reality in UK also.

Fight like hell! Organise like hell! Quoting Dr Martin L King the day before his assassination "...only in the darkness, can you see the stars"

Lee Saunders finished his inspiring speech with a rousing challenge to UNISON

17/06/2025

🟢🟣 Ian Ludlam, LGBT+ officer speaking at yesterday's National Local Government Conference in support of Motion 19 Undoing the Damage: Rebuilding Services for LGBT+ People. The motion was carried unanimously.

17/06/2025

📢 Isabella Ingibina, Black Members officer speaking at yesterday's National Local Government Conference in support of Motion 27 - Advancing Opportunities for Black Workers in Local Government. The motion was carried unanimously