UNISON Scotland at SNP Conference

UNISON Scotland attends all conferences of the main political parties in Scotland so we were in Perth last week for the Scottish National Party Conference.

We had a UNISON stall and hosted a fringe meeting with speakers from UNISON Scotland at other events. Our fringe event on 'How should we Revitalise our Public Services?' had UNISON's Dave Watson as the main speaker with Shona Robison MSP, the SNP Shadow Health Minister.

Sofi Taylor (UNISON NEC) represented us in the Oxfam 'Public not Private? How to End Global Poverty' event with John McAllion (Oxfam in Scotland), Pete Wishart MSP and Linda Fabiani MSP.

Dave Watson also represented UNISON in a fringe event on 'The Scottish Energy Challenge: 2011 and beyond', hosted by Airtricity Developments (UK) Ltd. This included Richard Lochhead MSP, Shadow Environment Minister, and Brian Wilson (former Energy Minister).

Dave highlighted UNISON Scotland's pamphlet 'Scotland's Energy - Scotland's Future' with a focus on renewable energy.

We were also represented at a fringe meeting on 'EU Competition Rules and Public Services' by Kenny MacLaren (Information Development Officer) who spoke alongside Councillor Kevin Stewart and Ian Hudghton MEP.

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