South West

Unite members at First Somerset and Avon in Weston-super-Mare are being encouraged to take a lunch time stroll along the seafront thanks to a new partnership organised by Unite the union.

The news of the collapse of holiday company Thomas Cook leaving thousands of holiday makers stranded made the headlines in October, however this also had a massive impact on nearly 10,000 staff in the company who faced redundancy. Many of these staff were represented by Unite the Union – who stepped...

Healthcare assistant (HCA) and UNISON member Helen Russell has just completed the first year of her Open University (OU) BA (Hons) degree in health and social care – with help from a union course.

Bus drivers in Bristol got the chance to be creative with their words thanks to two days of sessions set up by their Unite Learning Coordinator that included a Q & A with award winning crime and Quick Reads author Ann Cleeves.

Unite the union has been working with Sun Chemical MSN in Norton Radstock to deliver IT training and apprenticeships to staff at the global printing inks and coatings supplier production base in Somerset.