President stresses UNISON’s myth-busting role

“I didn’t actually join the union when I started with the council: I was only a temp and I was told that I couldn’t join.”
UNISON president Josie Bird was explaining to the union’s women’s conference the sort of myths that we still have to break – because what she had been told all those years ago was wrong.
It “took me probably a lot longer to become a permanent member of staff – and I was paid on a lower grade – because I wasn’t