Barbecue fires enthusiasm for Overseas Nurses

by Hamid Rasheed

UNISONScotland's successful Overseas Nurses Network goes from strength to strength. Over the summer 60 overseas healthcare workers from as far afield as Aberdeen and Edinburgh came to Glasgow to take part in the Network's Barbecue, held at the union's resource centre at Fitzroy Place.

Sofi Taylor (UNISON NEC) said, "This was so successful we have had a number of requests to run it annually. "In addition to the social side of the event, we were able to set up a number of forum groups to add to research that is being done by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

"We were also pleased to welcome the newest addition to our trade union family. Six week-old Leo, the child of one of our Overseas Nurses and her Scottish partner was the star of the show."

The Overseas Nurses Network in Scotland now has a mailing list of around 600 and has been going for nearly three years. It was the first network of its type in UNISON.

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