A TUC report found that 68% of disabled women workers had been sexually harassed at work
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International motions on women’s rights and Palestine passed at NDC
Delegates heard impassioned speeches on international women’s rights and the importance of resisting apartheid in Palestine
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Care dominates debate at national delegate conference
What’s happening with adult social care in England and the devolved nations, provided a comprehensive debate on day two of national delegate conference
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‘We remain strong and defiant’
Christina McAnea salutes a year of successful striking and campaigning, in a rousing conference speech
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Conference urged to fight for truth and justice in COVID inquiry
Delegates heard from Professor Lyn Sudbury-Riley about her work with COVID Bereaved Families for Justice, as the pandemic public inquiry began
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Supporting lower paid women in UNISON
‘The strength and stability of our union relies on our ability to recruit, support and develop our women activists’
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‘Activists are the lifeblood of our union,’ says Andrea Egan
UNISON president opens the union’s 2023 national delegate conference
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Food Standards Agency workers call for fair pay
Local government conference hears that UNISON needs to build recruitment in the agency
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Care workers take centre stage at local government conference
“Insourcing, insourcing, insourcing is the solution to market failure”, delegates hear
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‘Save local services before it’s too late’ says conference
UNISON research reveals the levels of underfunding in local government
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A message of solidarity from trade unionists in Turkey
Mehmet Bozgeyik, co-president of the confederation of public employees’ trade unions (KESK), gives passionate address to UNISON local government conference
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Mayor of Liverpool opens UNISON’s energy conference
Steve Rotherham spoke to delegates about the efforts being made in his region to decarbonise industry and green the economy
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Christina McAnea introduces new energy report at conference
The general secretary said UNISON is ‘warning once again – about the elitist energy economy this government is creating’
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General secretary urges delegates to ‘get the vote out’
Christina McAnea stresses the importance of making sure the NJC ballot passes the 50% threshold
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Conference calls for national pay bargaining in FE
Every year, hundreds of meetings on pay take place in FE colleges all across the country, which is expensive and time-consuming
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Water, energy and transport conference held in Liverpool
Environment Agency pay was high on the agenda, following the recent dispute and the government’s pay offer
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Labour promises to rebuild local government
Lisa Nandy says Labour has been ‘inspired’ by UNISON’s work on insourcing, bringing services back into local authority control
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A lasting legacy for Black workers
Black workers in local government face multiple forms of discrimination, including bullying, racial harassment and a lack of opportunities for promotion
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Time to fight for a fair pay rise
Local government conference opens in Liverpool with a refusal ‘to be made poorer by this government’
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Support Guaranteed: The roadmap to a national care service
A new report from the Fabian Society was launched at Westminster last week
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