UNISON at 30 – celebrate good times, come on!

Thirty years ago this month, UNISON was born from the merger of three unions: Confederation of Health Service Employees (COHSE), National Union of Public Employees (NUPE) and National and Local Government Officers’ Association (NALGO).
Today UNISON is the biggest trade union in the UK with more than 1.3 million members, over two thirds of whom are women.
Numbers matter because numbers bring power – as we illustrated some years ago in our first TV advert. UNISON was the first trade un