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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UNISON salutes team that kept up abortion access in lockdown
Union-sponsored annual nursing team award goes to nurses who helped ensure women had access to abortion services during COVID-19
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Who will remember them?
On sea beds
of the Aegean.
Of the Mediterranean.
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‘Rights and fights that can and must be won’
It’s night time in Wroclaw, south west Poland. It’s dark. The streets are filled with people in face masks holding placards and chanting ‘I think, I feel, I decide’. Police vans and officers – some…Read more…
Celebrate!
Celebrate the first day of this year’s Black History Month and watch our short video below.
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Blog: Ten years of the Equality Act and still fighting
UNISON disabled and LGBT+ activist Louise Ashworth looks back at 10 years of the Equality Act
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“Truly shocking”
Unite has today (August 27) revealed evidence of potential widespread jobs discrimination among British Airways cabin crew based at London Gatwick.
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How the govt fails to take women seriously
A joint statement earlier this week (August 5) by the TUC, Centenary Action Group, the Fawcett Society, Women’s Aid and trade unions representing parliamentary staff (Unite, Prospect, PCS and FDA)…Read more…
Childcare crisis
Nearly half of working mothers recently made redundant say lack of childcare provision played a role in their sacking, a shocking new survey has revealed. The massive economic toll the coronavirus…Read more…
‘Every death is a tragedy’
“Independent, credible studies such as ones by the University College London and the University of Oxford and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have revealed how one of the tragedies of…Read more…
Blog: Let’s have an informed discussion about working from home
Graeme Ellis and Tansaim Hussain-Gul are co-chairs of UNISON’s national disabled members’ committee. Here, they look at how COVID-19 has disproved myths about home working being unproductive
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