I am the Personnel Officer for a large Scottish charity and we recognise Unison officially. However, the union doesn't appear to be much interested in the voluntary sector from what I've seen in the last two years. It has been unable to organise shop stewards for over a year and has failed to attend our Joint Negotiating Committee for over two years. The voluntary sector is usually positive in its attitude towards unions and we have offered our facilities for Unison reps to come and talk to our staff but it has yet to take up this offer. When a member of staff recently phoned its Edinburgh branch to talk about joining, it referred her back to me! We are now ...  Read the complete review