About Us

Who's Who - Ray Short

Ray Short heads the organising of our Local Government membership. There are 112,000 members in 46 branches. The branches are based on the 46 separate local authorities in the North West. Their conditions of service are based on a National Joint Agreement with the local authority employer’s organisation, but they are then subject to further detailed negotiations at local level. Each Authority has a member of the full time staff assigned to it     
and they take their direction from Ray and other Regional Management Team (RMT) colleagues.

Ray also supports the lay members from these branches to run the democratic process which decides policy for UNISON Regionally and Nationally.

CONTACT DETAILS
• To find out more about membership benefits contact our helpline, UNISONdirect on 0845 355 0845. Lines are open 6am-midnight Mon to Fri and 9am-4pm Sat.