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UNISON - Britain's biggest trade union, with members in the public services and the essential utilities. Information on the activities of the union, as well as resources of interest to members.
East Sussex UNISON - News and information on international and local issues and campaigns against privatisation.
UNISON Scotland online - Scottish region of UNISON, with regional news, training, health and safety and legal information.
Southern Derbyshire Health UNISON - Includes basic details and newsletter.
Edinburgh UNISON - Representing 10,000 members working for the City of Edinburgh Council, voluntary and related sectors. Includes newsletter and policy database.
Fife UNISON - Fife local government UNISON branch, with newsletter and campaign updates.
Suffolk HealthCare UNISON - Newsletter with branch details and online support form.
Manchester UNISON - Represents Manchester City Council and associated voluntary sector workers, with newsletter and branch contacts.
Scottish Hydro Electric UNISON - Branch details, officers, meetings, stewards and health & safety reps plus health and safety advice for members at Scottish and Southern Energy.
Bradford Local Government Branch of UNISON - For UNISON members of Bradford Metropolitan District Council, with an active retired members group, news bulletins and campaign updates.
Nottinghamshire UNISON - Nottinghamshire Local Government UNISON. Branch structure, officers and reps plus links to UNISON supported campaigns.
Lancashire UNISON - Newsletter and contact details for Lancashire region.
West Dunbartonshire UNISON - Representing members in West Dunbartonshire Council. Includes news, events and contact details.
UNISON East Midlands Region - Details of how to join, regionally specific information and education section.
Public Servant Lifestyle - E-magazine dedicated to the lifestyle interests of British public sector workers. Sections on food and drink, other general interests, as well as financial and legal.
Cambridge County UNISON - Newsletter and contact details for UNISON members in Cambridgeshire County Council.
UNISON Health and Safety Department - Information about becoming a health and safety rep together with general advice.
De Montfort University UNISON Branch - Information about branch structure, stewards and officers.
Leicestershire County UNISON - Information about membership benefits, how to join and local news for Leicestershire County Council local government.
Kensington and Chelsea UNISON - News, membership details, member benefits and contacts for Kensington and Chelsea local government branch.
Yorkshire & Humberside UNISON - Regional news and contact details for local branches.
Aberdeen City UNISON - Represents local government, higher education, police and voluntary sector workers in Aberdeen. Includes policy database, local news and campaigns.
Bournewood Health Service UNISON - Representing North Surrey primary care trust and Woking primary care trust, with branch details and news.
Nottingham Trent University UNISON - Branch details and campaigns with information on employment rights and health and safety.
Oxford Brookes University UNISON - Branch news and contact details with discussion board.
Oxfordshire Health Services UNISON - Includes branch news, welfare and campaign updates.
Southampton District UNISON - Representing Southampton City Council workers, with branch details, health and safety information and local news.
Dukeries UNISON - Covers Sherwood Forest NHS Trust, Newark and Sherwood Primary Care Trust, Mansfield Primary Care Trust , Ashfield Primary Care Trust and North Nottinghamshire Health Authority. Includes branch details and newsletter.
Stirling Council UNISON - Local government branch for Stirling Council, with branch news and contact details.
Corporation of London UNISON - Local government branch news and contact details with retired members news.
Dudley Primary Care Branch UNISON - Represents Dudley South Primary Care Trust and Dudley, Beacon and Castle Primary Care Trust. Branch details, newsletters and campaigns.
Hull and East Riding Community Health UNISON - Basic branch contact details and stewards list.
Wirral Local Government UNISON - Represents members in Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, with branch news and contact details.
Severn Health Branch UNISON - Represents members in primary care trusts and the partnership NHS mental health and learning disabilities trust.
Islington UNISON - Local government branch for London Borough of Islington, with branch news, campaigns and contacts.
North West Region UNISON - Regional news, training and events listing.
East Lothian Council UNISON - Local government branch details and newsletters with personnel policies.
Aston University UNISON - Contact details for Aston University branch.
UNISON United Left - Socialist grouping within UNISON. Includes membership details and NEC election candidates.
UNISON Eastern Region - Regional news, stewards' training, branch contacts, events, campaigns, health and safety and welfare information.
Trafford Metropolitan UNISON - Represents members in Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council and other local public services.
North Lincolnshire UNISON - Represents staff working for North Lincolnshire Council, John Leggott and North Lindsey Colleges, Bottesford and Brigg Town Councils and Humberside Airport.
UNISON Open College - Distance learning college offering open distance and flexible learning courses for trade unionists and members.
City Of Plymouth UNISON - Represents workers in Plymouth local government and other public services, with news, contacts and advice on rights and manual handling.
King's College London UNISON - Includes news, campaigns, events and membership benefits.
Central Bristol health UNISON - Represents workers in Bristol and Avon health services. Includes contact details and membership benefits.
Salford City UNISON - Represents workers in Salford City Council and other local public services.
University of York UNISON - Local branch rules and contact details.
Sheffield Hallam University UNISON - Local branch contacts, news and information on health and safety.
Royal Hull Hospitals UNISON - Local contacts, branch meetings and newsletter.
UNISON Somerset County Branch - Branch diary, campaigns, social information and contacts for the Somerset branch representing some 4,000 workers in the county council and related employers.
Sussex Ambulance UNISON - Local UNISON branch for negotiating on pay and terms and conditions for the staff and paramedics of Sussex Ambulance Service.
UNISON South Glasgow Hospitals Branch - Home pages of the UNISON South Glasgow Hospitals Branch and its award winning newsletter 'Southside UNISON'.
Devon County Branch of UNISON - Represents County Council staff in Devon (except teachers).
Wigan UNISON - Wigan local government branch of UNISON, with information on membership benefits and branch contacts.
London UNISON - London Region Unison news, contact details and campaigns.
UNISON South West Region - Regional information on campaigns, workplace rights and coming events.
UNISON Cymru Wales Region - News, events and campaign details for UNISON members in Wales.
Scottish Electricity UNISON - News, campaigns and event listings for UNISON members in Scottish Electricity.
Northumbria Healthcare UNISON - UNISON branch for members working for Northumbria Healthcare Trust, North Tyneside Primary Healthcare Trust, voluntary agencies and nursing homes.
Moray UNISON - Local branch representing members employed within Moray's public, community and voluntary sector, with branch newsletters and briefings.
SEPA UNISON - News, services and health and safety information for UNISON members in the Scottish Environment Protection Agency.
Scottish Water UNISON - Local news, campaign updates and contact information for UNISON members in Scottish Water.
Argyll and Bute UNISON - News, campaigns, services and contact information for UNISON members in Argyll and Bute Council.
Dumfries and Galloway UNISON - Local branch information, contacts and membership services for Dumfries and Galloway Council workers.
South Glasgow Hospitals UNISON - Local union contacts and news for workers in South Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust.
South Lanarkshire UNISON - Local news and contact information for workers in South Lanarkshire local government and further education.
Capability Scotland UNISON - News, contacts and services for employees of Capability Scotland.
South Tyneside Health UNISON - Local union branch of South Tyneside District Hospital, South Shields.
University of Southampton UNISON - Local branch news, contacts and information.
University of Glasgow UNISON - News, events, contacts and information for workers in University of Glasgow.
University of Strathclyde UNISON - Local branch news, events and contacts for workers in University of Strathclyde.
University College London UNISON - Includes members in London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the Royal Veterinary College. Branch details, campaigns and news.
Aberdeen Universities UNISON Branch - Representing staff employed at the University of Aberdeen and the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland. Includes local news, campaigns, contact details and document library.
UNISON Nottinghamshire Healthcare - UNISON Nottinghamshire Healthcare Branch including Nottingham, Rampton, Arnold Lodge, Wathwood, Mansfield and Bassetlaw. Includes branch details and bulletins.
Unison Power Branch - The branch of Unison in the East Midlands for employees of Powergen, East Midlands Electricity and Siemens Metering. Can also include ex-TXU and EME employees.
University of Wolverhampton UNISON - News and branch contacts for UNISON members at University of Wolverhampton.
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. -- Lord Dewar Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. -- Kenny Ausubel Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) UNISON "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin UNISON I could prove God statistically. -- George Gallup Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th UNISON Silence is argument carried out by other means. - ErnestoCheGuevara "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) I married beneath me. All women do. -- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed UNISON If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly. -- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. -- Margaret Fairless Barber A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. -- Irwin Corey UNISON "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) UNISON The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Tear open packet, unfold and use. -- Directions on moist towelette package UNISON Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. -- Carol Burnett Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable. -- Fred Astaire UNISON "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Silence is argument carried out by other means. - ErnestoCheGuevara A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -- Robert Frost "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) UNISON "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) UNISON He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ign I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. -- Socrates "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." UNISON In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. -- Robert Frost There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) UNISON Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. -- Sigmund Freud Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. -- Fred Allen UNISON Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 UNISON MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -- Lauren Bacall "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Never eat more than you can lift. -- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show UNISON Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. -- Dolly Parton Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway UNISON When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Sacha Guitry Honor lies in honest toil. -- Grover Cleveland Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy UNISON It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) UNISON Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. -- Howard Aiken Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. -- Garry Trudeau "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good UNISON In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. -- Robert Frost All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. -- Anonymous A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiapirelli UNISON Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -- Anon The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) UNISON Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t UNISON
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