UNISON and unions’ wider role

UNISON works with both employers and employees to ensure that public service workers receive a fair deal. A big advantage for any worker represented by UNISON is that, like many other unions, it takes part in ‘collective bargaining’. This means that when negotiating with a management group the union represents the whole workforce. This gives workers far greater negotiating strength. Single Union Agreements help to strengthen this negotiating role. A Single Union Agreement is when all the workers in a particular business, or even a…