As UNISON conference lays waste to the levelling up agenda, delegates say that the current government is ill-placed to fix problems that it caused in the first place
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UNISON fights to protect rights of workers with long COVID
UNISON says that the Equality Act 2020 is being misrepresented by the Equality and Human Rights Commission
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Introducing the year of disabled workers
Why 2022 is ‘an exciting opportunity to showcase the skills, experience and qualities that disabled people bring to the workplace and to society’
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UNISON welcomes government pledge to end violence at work
ILO convention says no one should be in fear of physical, physiological or sexual violence from just going about their daily work
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LGBT+ conference applauds organising award winners
Presentation caps a busy morning that saw delegates debate a wide range of topics, including the climate crisis
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Shadow equalities minister pledges equalisation of hate crime law
Taiwo Owatemi MP – a UNISON member – addressed UNISON’s LGBT+ conference and thanked members for their work in the pandemic
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Delegates pledge to fight back against rising tide of transphobia
Meeting on Transgender Day of Remembrance, LGBT+ conference backs a raft of motions to fight back against ‘an attack on all of us’
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Our trans members, proud to be in – and out in – UNISON
For Trans Awareness Week this year, let’s meet some UNISON members and find out what makes them proud of their union
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‘Reps are part of our movement’
On the second day of TUC Congress on Monday (September 13), Unite assistant general secretary Diana Holland highlighted the importance of union equality reps and the pressing need for their statutory…Read more…
UniteLive’s stories of the year – TUC president Gail Cartmail in inspirational speech
Every day for the ‘twelve days of Christmas’ this year, UniteLive is running a different story from our top stories of 2021. Today, we look back at TUC president and Unite assistant general secretary…Read more…
Slave trade history ‘must be condemned and never forgotten’
August 23 has been designated by UNESCO as the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. From 1562 when slavery began with the first English slaving expedition…Read more…
UNISON welcomes new law to prevent sexual harassment at work
Government set to introduce mandatory duty on employers to protect staff by introducing explicit protections from third-party harassment
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Time for equality
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey today (May 26) addressed Unite’s first fully online equalities conference. You can watch his full speech in the video below: Film by Martin Scanlon
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‘A cornerstone of our union and our democracy’
From the moment the coronavirus hit our shores, Unite was on the front foot, fighting to protect your safety, your jobs and your pay. We worked day in and day out to secure the Job Retention Scheme…Read more…
George Floyd – never forgotten
George Floyd, whose murder at the hands of police sparked global protests last summer, was killed exactly a year ago today (May 25). Unite’s National Black and Asian Ethnic Minority Committee…Read more…
Blog: George Floyd’s murder, one year on
The public protests in the wake of George Floyd’s murder challenged corporations and institutions to address the glaring racial disparities in their organisation and in society
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Our Streets
With flowers for a vigil and a sombre tone
women gathered to pay their respects.
Why couldn’t she have been left alone?
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Women under ‘massive pressure’
The global coronavirus pandemic has spared no one – even for those who have not had the virus, every single one of us has been touched by the pandemic’s wider social and economic effects. But in a…Read more…
‘This government is actively anti-women’
It couldn’t be clearer. The Tories are completely out of touch with the realities for women of the impact of the pandemic and have failed them at every turn. In fact, we need to recognise that…Read more…
TUC survey reveals 71% of working mothers denied furlough
Working parents – particularly mothers – are in an impossible situation this lockdown. UNISON is calling for paid parental leave to support them
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