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Being a UNISON member gives you a huge range of benefits:

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Unrivalled protection and representation at work

Help with pay and conditions of service

Health and safety guidance and support

Confidential welfare services for you and your dependents in difficult times

Excellent legal services including free help with work problems and legal support for members and their families

Pensions advice

A special hotline, UNISON direct, for help and advice on workplace issues

Online employment and workplace advice

Education and training advice and courses, leading to vocational and professional qualifications

Cash benefits for accidents and injuries at work

A colour magazine sent to your home four times a year, a monthly magazine for our stewards and activists and a full range of publicity

Special deals on everything from computers, tax returns, holidays, mortgages, car breakdown services, insurance and credit cards

Our own holiday centre for members and families at the Devon seaside

Here’s four good reasons why UNISON is right for you:

No one works harder UNISON won millions in injury settlement payouts for its members last year, has fought many high-profile equal pay claims around the country, and is a major influence on government policy such as the minimum wage, healthcare, policing and pensions.

Women represented UNISON's membership is two-thirds women - so we make sure their voices are heard throughout the union. At every level of the union, women are elected in fair proportion to their membership.

A voice for everyone UNISON makes sure everyone has a say in how the union is run, from branch member to general secretary. Our unique structure ensures top-quality help and advice is available at the local, regional and national level.

Bigger and better UNISON is not only the country's biggest public services trade union, it's one of the fastest growing too. Last year UNISON recruited 155,000 new members, a staggering 425 a day. This is another step along the road to building an organising union of two million members.

Hafal (meaning 'equal') is the principal organisation in Wales working with individuals affected by serious mental illness. We are managed by the people we support - people with serious mental illness and their families.

Providing support across all 22 counties of Wales, Hafal is dedicated to empowering people with serious mental illness and their families to:

achieve a better quality of life
fulfil their ambitions for recovery
fight discrimination
enjoy equal access to health and social care, housing, income, education, and employment.

Speaking about Hafal’s working partnership with UNISON, Chief Executive Bill Walden-Jones said:

“Hafal's Trustees, staff, and UNISON are committed to providing a high quality service to people with serious mental illness and their carers; we believe that this can best be achieved through the commitment of motivated and well-supported staff working in partnership with Hafal’s Members, Trustees and clients.

“In practice, Hafal and UNISON work together in a very positive way to ensure that we have an engaged and valued staff team who can provide the very best service to our clients.

“Hafal is committed to supporting staff by welcoming them as stakeholders in the charity, involving them fully in decisions about their conditions and about wider issues concerning the charity, and providing salaries and conditions which reflect the quality of services provided. “And we welcome UNISON's support both in representing the interests of staff and enabling them to play a full part in the operation of the charity, and to operate as a therapeutic team with shared values and a commitment to promoting the recovery of people with a mental illness.”