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About Us
Welcome to the website of the Cornwall Health Community (CHC) Branch of UNISON.
We're the largest trade union representing, campaigning and negotiating for workers across the Cornwall community in a wide range of roles from administration to housekeepers, nurses to porters, scientists to cleaners and many more.
Our Members
UNISON members are people working in the public services, for private contractors providing public services and the essential utilities. They include frontline staff and managers working full or part time in local authorities, the NHS, the police service, colleges and schools, the electricity, gas and water industries,transport and the voluntary sector.
Our Stewards
We have a team of accredited local representatives made up of workers across both trusts and private employers. Are you interested in helping your colleagues at work? Contact Us for more information.
Our Campaign
UNISON campaigns and lobbies on key issues affecting our members and the public at large. We’re working to protect and improve public services, win equal pay and employment rights for everyone, improve safety in the workplace and end discrimination and harassment at work.
If you're in a union, you're never alone.
We live in unsettling times. The NHS and Private employers are under immense pressure to deliver on a budget that has been cut since 2010, that means more pressure on staff, there has never been a more important time to ensure that your concerns are heard and by joining a union you are being part of that collective voice.
Why Join?
Each of our 1450+ members has their own reasons for joining UNISON.
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every one receives our help and support.
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The Team
We have a team of accredited local representatives made up of workers across the branch.
Are you interested in helping your colleagues at work? Contact us for more information.
Sara Penter
- Branch Secretary
- Branch H&S Officer
- Accredited Steward
Alison Clark
- Branch Chair
- Membership Officer
- Accredited Steward
Kirsty Bawden
- Branch Treasurer
- Disabilities Officer
- Communications Officer
- Accredited Steward
Andrew Gordon
- Education Co-Ordinator
- Accredited Steward
Anna Friend
- Equalities Officer
- Accredited Steward
Gabriel Ezeh
- Black Members Officer
- Environmental Officer
- Accredited Steward
Jenny Hoffman
- Equalities Officer
- Accredited Steward
Mark Milton
- Retired Members Officer
Priscilla Long
- Womens Officer
- Welfare Officer
- Accredited Steward
Stephen Barrett
- Accredited Steward
Victoria Thomas
- Accredited Steward
Karen Holloway
- Steward
- In Training
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UNISON Cornwall Health Community
UNISON Branch Office, 1st Floor Bellingham House, Bodmin Hospital, Bodmin, Cornwall, PL31 2QT