National Delegate Conference 2025
Friday 20 June
Thank you
A huge thank you to everyone who’s made this year’s National Delegate Conference a success, and who’ve made sure our region has been right at the thick of it. We’ve been well represented across different sectors as well as geographically, and it’s fantastic to see so many members getting involved.
Now, who’s looking ahead to 2026?!
Celebrating our strength
Have a watch of the video here from conference. We’re stronger together, in UNISON.
Celebrating our strength: UNISON national delegate conference 2025 #uNDC25 pic.twitter.com/Omx5O6TpwK
— UNISON – UK’s largest union (@unisontheunion) June 20, 2025
Winner winner!
Congratulations to Gareth from UNISON Sheffield Teaching Hospitals branch who’s won a voucher for Croyde Bay!
Leeds Leeds Leeds
UNISON Mid Yorkshire health branch secretary Adrian addressed conference yesterday… in a Leeds United top, legend!
(Can you tell admin is a Leeds fan?)
North Lincolnshire in the house
UNISON North Lincolnshire are having a great time in Liverpool!
Day four – let’s go!
All of a sudden it’s the final day of conference!
Let’s kick today off by looking back at some news coming out of conference yesterday…
Investment in public buildings can’t come soon enough
‘Investment in public buildings can’t come soon enough’
UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea on the government commitment to invest £9bn a year to fix crumbling schools, hospitals and prisons, https://t.co/pA49zwHE9e pic.twitter.com/9xW8o4DVGP
— UNISON – UK’s largest union (@unisontheunion) June 19, 2025
Thursday 19 June
Day three – over and out
How is it the end of day three already?! We’ll be back in the morning for the final day of conference – see you then!
Another branch getting involved
UNISON West Yorkshire Police having a great time in Liverpool!
Getting stuck in
Great to see UNISON Sheffield Community Health embracing conference, and even meeting one of our international guests!
View from the floor
UNISON North Yorkshire are right in the thick of it!
Read all about it…
Don’t forget you can keep up to date with all the news coming out of conference in one place!
Click here for conference news
Team Yorkshire and Humberside!
What a fab photo of our regional delegates at conference!
Another guest speaker!
Today conference will welcome Shaher Saed, the general secretary of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions.
Good morning Liverpool and UNISON members ️
This morning we welcome Shaher Saed, general secretary of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions to talk to our national delegate conference #uNDC25 pic.twitter.com/VrAzCARKCZ
— UNISON – UK’s largest union (@unisontheunion) June 19, 2025
Here we are again…
Welcome again to day three in Liverpool!
Wednesday 18 June
Day two – done!
Just like that, we’ve finished another day at conference? Same again tomorrow? See you in the morning…
International guest!
The president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees – Lee Saunders – addresses conference!
What a fantastic inspiring speech from @LeeSaunders, President of @AFSCME!
It was an honour to hear about his unions fight to save jobs and services, and how we can learn from each other. #uNDC25 pic.twitter.com/RqlOyohYim
— Christina McAnea (@cmcanea) June 18, 2025
Christina McAnea vows to keep Labour honest
UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea tells conference: “I’m not here to tell them they’re doing a good job – I’m here to tell them to do their job better.”
Christina’s speech
You can now catch up with Christina McAnea’s speech to conference!
What a view!
Pete from UNISON Mid Yorkshire Health might just have the best seat in the house for Christina’s speech!
It was all going so well…
Unfortunately Christina McAnea’s speech won’t be streamed due to technical difficulties – but once it’s published online, you’ll be able to watch it back here.
Apologies, due to technical difficulties with our livestream we can’t bring you the general secretary’s speech live.
But we will be putting Christina’s speech up on our Youtube as soon as we can after she speaks. https://t.co/B6KafjJpq8
— UNISON – UK’s largest union (@unisontheunion) June 18, 2025
Emotional, passionate and heartfelt
An excellent summary from UNISON Barnsley as conference hears about the realities faced by migrant workers.
News update!
Another story coming out of conference: “Welfare reforms risk forcing disabled people out of work”.
Yorkshire speaker!
Pam Sian, part of our RCO and branch secretary of UNISON West Yorkshire Combined Authority & Transport, addresses conference. Go on Pam!
Delegate check
Smiling faces from Yorkshire & Humberside delegates for day two!
Christina’s speech…
Our general secretary Christina McAnea will be addressing conference this afternoon, and it’ll be streamed live!
Christina’s speech: live stream
Day two, let’s go!
Good morning on day two of UNISON’s National Delegate Conference! We’re kicking things off today with some pictures of delegates taking part in last night’s There For You quiz. Hopefully not too many sore heads today…
Tuesday 17 June
See you tomorrow
We’re closing off the blog for day one of NDC here. Enjoy your evening, and we’ll be back tomorrow!
This week’s guests
UNISON is hosting trade union guests from across the world at this year’s NDC!
This year at #undc25 we’re joined by colleagues from @AFSCME @kesk_int @PSLINKunion @NacionalAnthoc @kmpdu – it’s always a pleasure to meet with and hear from our partner unions from across the globe ✊ pic.twitter.com/UDDFPYawH6
— Christina McAnea (@cmcanea) June 17, 2025
Back to it
Photos in the sunshine are over now, it’s back to the important stuff – and a talk on the Far Right.
Delegate photo shoot…
If you’ve been following this blog, it probably won’t surprise you that Kerri from UNISON Rotherham is behind this – we love seeing our regional delegates together enjoying conference and enjoying the sunshine!
What a view!
UNISON Barnsley are here and might have the best view going!
Time for another selfie…
Kerri and Martin from UNISON Rotherham looking fab!
We’re on the telly!
Remember the news story we mentioned earlier about 999 ambulance call handlers?
UNISON’s deputy head of health Alan Lofthouse has been discussing it on Talk TV.
‘They are highly-trained individuals and yet their pay is only just above the minimum wage’
Deputy head of health Alan Lofthouse on @TalkTV discussing a new UNISON report showing up to 80% turnover in 999 call handler posts.https://t.co/qw76bRLWUF pic.twitter.com/lM35yLyaGB
— UNISON – UK’s largest union (@unisontheunion) June 17, 2025
Everybody look busy…
The bosses are here!
Karen (regional secretary) [left] with John, Wendy and Pam from the RCO. Don’t they all look fab?! (always worth a bit of flattery in case they’re reading this…)
Selfie klaxon again!
UNISON Sheffield Hallam University are here!
General secretary update
Christina McAnea is excited for the week ahead!
And we’re off … UNISON national Delegate Conference @undc2925 starts in Liverpool . Best wishes to all delegates – have a great week . And really looking forward to hearing from our international guests @unisontheunion pic.twitter.com/x1YvrHHQgI
— Christina McAnea (@cmcanea) June 17, 2025
Here we go!
Delegates are in the room and we’re about ready to go!
Selfie klaxon!
First one of NDC, captured by UNISON Rotherham branch secretary Kerri – some *may* say they’re bored queuing…
Busy busy!
Our reliable sources (delegates) have sent through some evidence of the queue building for NDC kickoff…
News!
The first news article coming out of NDC has landed, and it’s a depressing one (sorry!). Ambulance 999 call handlers are quitting due to burnout and pressure, according to new UNISON research.
Checking in!
Gold star to UNISON North Yorkshire who were *very* quick off the mark! Here are some of the branch delegates who attended UNISON’s local government conference and will be staying in Liverpool for NDC.
Here we go then…
Welcome along to Day One of UNISON’s 2025 National Delegate Conference!
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