UNITE THE UNION Employee Reviews

The staff I worked with were incredibly kind, my tasks were always clear, this was a fun and memorable experience and helped me gain confidence with talking to members of the public. I immediately felt included in staff meetings.

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Insights into UNITE THE UNION

Based on 6 survey responses

What people like

Energising work tasks
Fair pay for job
Ability to meet personal goals

Job satisfaction every day

MEMBERSHIP AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATOR (Former Employee) - Dagenham, Greater London - 4 May 2021

Every day was interesting. You never knew whst you would be dealing with over the phone. It was heart breaking sometimes. So having a strong character is an advantage.

Pros

Job satisfaction

Cons

Testing at times

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Don't practice what they preach...

PREFER NOT TO SAY (Former Employee) - PREFER NOT TO SAY - 31 March 2021

1 rule from them, 1 rule for everyone else. Bullying culture especially Management, your needs are ignored, unlikely to be promoted. High stress levels. Put up and shut up as the benefits are so good. Members can be very rude/difficult/lying through their teeth. Often they think they are the greatest thing since sliced bread and you should be in awe of them...

Pros

Benefits

Cons

No support

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Worst Establishment I have ever worked for

Regional Learning Organiser (Former Employee) - Plymouth, Devon - 29 July 2020

The money is great but the whole management ethos is very much a blame culture. Often set up to fail and thrown under the bus to protect themselves. If you email asking for help and they don't like the questions they simply ignore you

Pros

Salary is excellent

Cons

Your job is never secure

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Fun Workplace

Hotel Receptionist (Former Employee) - Esher, Surrey - 31 December 2019

I learnt good customer service and I loved meeting new people. I got on well with the management and my work colleagues we were like a family. It did have it's very busy periods as well as having some quiet periods.

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Good Experience

Trade Union Administration Intern (Former Employee) - Birmingham - 8 May 2019

Great experience. Very useful. Team great. Staff great. Made me feel welcome. Doing great work. Fantastic. Glad to have helped. Administration was good.

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Terrible union

Terrible union (Former Employee) - West Bromwich, West Midlands - 18 February 2019

Can’t believe working at this company sorry not a company an organisation has such great reviews how is that as the real life reviews you should read is on sites such as trustapilot ;it’s a terrible union look at the reviews I should know I was another one of there sufferers who I’ll advised me throughout my working life it’s plainly obvious it rakes in the cash but does little for you will end up like labour. Split up

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Job Statisfaction

Union Offical (Former Employee) - London - 10 January 2019

I have to negotiate pay on behalf of members. the job is stressful but can be satisfying. Good employer, good salary and a new company car every 4 years. I work with in a industry that I started employment as a driver which is passenger transport. In house education which although no formal certificates has given me a good grounding and education.

Pros

job staisfaction

Cons

24 hour serviceing

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Different

MSA/PA to Coordinating Regional Officer (Former Employee) - London - 25 May 2018

Working to help those in need of support is a good feeling. Knowing that what I am doing can make a difference to someone and improve their work life for the better.

Pros

New knowledge every day.

Cons

Phone ringing.

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great

Administrator (Former Employee) - Londonderry, County Londonderry - 20 March 2018

It was a great place to work lots of good times and super bonuses really regret having to leave as the salary was really good as well but I would always go back

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Intensely busy

Secretary/Membership Services Administrator (Former Employee) - Coventry City Centre, West Midlands - 1 August 2017

Every day there were new challenges to embrace. I learned Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook skills through "in house" training. Certain areas of Management could have been better. Service provider to membership. Lack of inter-departmental co-operation. Making a difference to members with workplace issues when resolution could be made on their behalf by the organisation.

Pros

Good salary

Cons

No prospects for promotion

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Friendly and fun, although casual

Unpaid admin (Former Employee) - Holborn - 3 July 2017

unpaid voluntary work for a political campaign. Learnt a variety of skills e.g errands, website design, social media. Friendly people, nice location.

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Loose management structure, limited career options

Regional Officer (Former Employee) - London, Greater London - 11 May 2017

Unite recruits officers from its membership only. There is no day-to-day management (which suits motivated employees). Career routes are limited. Training is not geared towards individual development. The benefits package is excellent

Pros

No day-to-day management

Cons

No day-to-day management

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Unforgettable

Community Activist (Current Employee) - United Kingdom - 15 February 2017

Unite is amazing and by far the best union ever. I joined at 16 and have since been a Community Activist. Fighting out on the streets and helping to create campaigns.

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Good enviroment

Kitchen Assistant (Current Employee) - Esher, Surrey - 26 December 2016

Hotel Unite the Union with location in Esher is the best place for conference and meeting. They have nice range of food and services is on high standard.

Pros

Free meal

Cons

Good hours

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Senior Siebel consultant, Team lead, Busines Analyst

Siebel Business Analyst (Former Employee) - London - 6 June 2016

I led the Siebel BAU team here and also provided Business Analysis and Data Analysis skills. I led 4-5 rollouts and led a large scale data migration and data quality exercise. I worked with the labour party prior to a general election to help identify customers likely to vote for the labour party. I foudn these customers in in our CRM database with SQL and BI skills. This helped lead to a successful marketing campaign.

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Unite the union

Branch Secretary (Former Employee) - Portbury, ENG - 6 January 2016

Working for unite was a eye opener first as a shop floor rep then as a disability rep then as a f.O.C always at meetings with management I did learn a lot from it but at the end of the day the union could not save our jobs.

Pros

Working to help employees

Cons

Could not save our jobs

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Interesting area to work in.

Membership & Services Administrator (Former Employee) - London Angel - 28 January 2015

Very different to other companies I have worked for but an extremely interesting areas to work in with opportunities to learn more about employment law.

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Enjoyed and thrived upon the pressure of dealing with demanding individuals and situations.

Regional Industrial Organiser (Former Employee) - Edinburgh, SCT - 13 September 2013

Normal day started around 7am and ended 7pm with some work at home preparing for next day. Mostly my work took place out of office. only the administration was conducted in Edinburgh. Learned how to cope with stressful situations and to manage available time. I had a manegerial role in dealing with three secretaries and a member of the cleaning staff. My immediate manager was in Glasgow. Co-workers were doing a similar job to my own. Hardest part of the job was accepting that I could not always achieve what I set out to do due to external influences. Most enjoyable was when everything came together and the effort put in was justified.

Pros

Travelling and meeting people.

Cons

Travelling in the city traffic.

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Employment summary

Learning Organiser (Former Employee) - West Midlands - 27 April 2012

I have now left this employer, but my role involved extensive travel to companies and places of work meeting company representatives and union reps brokering learning ad reskilling, setting up programmes for learning, supporting people through redundancies, sourcing funding, organising information events, working with colleges, government bodies other trade unions and generally outsourcing support.Giving IAG and Coaching and Mentoring supportWorking with local communities and assessing their different social and cultural needs