More than two thirds of mums with young children would return to work if flexible hours were an option, a new survey has found. The survey of 1,600 mothers also revealed that more than a third…Read more…
Light up the Ladies’ Bridge
The forgotten history of the women who built London’s Waterloo Bridge will be celebrated next week in a three-day event that honours their efforts and hopes to inspire and educate the young…Read more…
Stop the cuts
Swingeing cuts to the funding to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), which will decimate services to some of the most disadvantaged in the UK, has prompted two trade unions to ballot…Read more…
Match words with action
Despite rights for pregnant women being enshrined in law, a shocking number of new and expecting mothers experience workplace discrimination, including being illegally sacked – and the problem is…Read more…
Career success?
Wealthy white male graduates are still more likely to have gained entry to the professional classes more than three years after leaving university, even when grades and other factors are taken into…Read more…
NHS: Room at the top?
Race discrimination is alive and kicking in Britain’s workplaces two new reports have found, with black, Asian and ethnic minority (BAEM) workers suffering underemployment across the economy as well…Read more…
Sexual harassment: Not banter, not funny
Nearly two in three young women, and predominantly those in zero hours’ contracts or agency work, are sexually harassed at work, a TUC survey has revealed. The TUC’s research, in partnership…Read more…
Unite: May ‘must re-double efforts’
If you happen to be a black or Asian ethnic minority (BAEM) person in the UK today, you’ll inhabit a vastly different world than the rest of the population – you’re much more likely to be jobless, to…Read more…
Have your say on Personal Independence Payments
The Department for Work and Pensions is undertaking a review of Personal Independence Payments (PIP). If you have applied for PIP in the past, you can fill in their questionnaire here to submit your…Read more…
Mind the ever widening gap
After spending decades of their working lives earning less than men, women also now face a yawning and growing income gap in retirement, a new study has shown. Women retiring this year expect…Read more…
Devastating impact
A campaign to stop lethal cuts to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has been launched by Unite and the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS). Last autumn the Tories…Read more…
Hero Seacole honoured at last
Following a 12 year campaign, a statue of Jamaican-born nurse Mary Seacole – the first memorial statue of a named black woman in the UK – was unveiled yesterday (June 30) on the grounds of St. Thomas…Read more…
Dads care too
My first Father’s Day was a painful one, during which I received a card and a sudden bash to the head. My daughter, Ava, then 11 months old, immediately took notice of the card when her mum handed it…Read more…
Where racism fears to tread
One evening more than 20 years ago, Newcastle United goalkeeper Shaka Hislop was putting petrol in his car at a local garage, when four teenage boys across the street began shouting racist abuse at…Read more…
Are we making a difference for equality in your workplace?
Can you spare five minutes to help UNISON win equality in the workplace?
The article Are we making a difference for equality in your workplace? first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Cuts threaten equalities
Unite has warned against further budget cuts and redundancies at the crisis hit Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), in a letter to MP Maria Miller. The EHRC, set up as in independent…Read more…
No pain, no gain?
The shocking sexism of the last century dramatized in the popular television show Mad Men may not be such a thing of the past after all. Just ask receptionist Nicola Thorp, who last week was…Read more…
Cameron’s ‘bare cupboard’
The annual Queen’s Speech should ostensibly lay out the government’s forthcoming legislative agenda, but today’s Speech – dominated by meaningless rhetoric and peppered with a shameless rehashing of…Read more…
Get ready for International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia
IDAHOBIT offers a great opportunity for campaigning in the workplace, so let us know what you have planned
The article Get ready for International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia…Read more…
Pushed out for being pregnant
Two years ago at Sports Direct’s infamous warehouse in Derbyshire, where working conditions have been described as ‘Victorian’ a woman gave birth in a toilet at work. That this is something that…Read more…