The following comment piece is adapted from an opening speech at this year’s TUC Women’s Conference last week delivered by Unite EC member Susan Matthews, who also chaired the…Read more…
‘What a fantastic way to celebrate’
Unite celebrated International Women’s Day on Sunday (March 8) as it honoured women’s contributions to society and made renewed calls for women’s rights and empowerment in and out of the workplace….Read more…
What women want
On International Women’s Day today (March 8), Unite’s women members speak out on what they want in the workplace: And Unite’s national women’s committee also has…Read more…
#IWD live from Scotland
Unite Scotland today held an event on International Women’s Day (March 8) to encourage women to try welding as a vocation at the West College Scotland. The event was held in Clydebank, which…Read more…
Period dignity win
Unite has welcomed the announcements by Manchester Metropolitan Mayor Andy Burnham and Liverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram that their organisations will sign up to the union’s period dignity…Read more…
‘Beacon of light’
On International Women’s day Unite has expressed solidarity with the women of Rojava in Northern Syria, who are living under the threat of constant danger and invasion. Rojava is a bastion of…Read more…
It’s #Time4Equality
#Time4Equality is an initiative launched by the Irish Executive Committee at the start of 2019 – and it does exactly what it says on the tin. Regional women’s officer Taryn Trainor takes up…Read more…
Thabitha speaks out
In the week ahead of International Women’s Day, Unite hosted Thabitha Khumalo, an opposition MP from Zimbabwe who has come to highlight the scale of human rights abuses in Zimbabwe, with…Read more…
Blog: When UNISON wins, women win – today, and every day
Today is International Women’s Day, when across the world we celebrate the achievements of women and call for greater equality. As not only the UK’s biggest union for women, but the largest…Read more…
‘Great hope for the future’
Many spaces in public and social life – from politics to business to spectator sport and more – aren’t exactly the most welcoming of women, mainly because they are still dominated and led by men….Read more…
‘We can’t watch from the sidelines’
To mark International Women’s Day today (March 8), Unite’s South East region is ramping up the union’s Period Dignity campaign in the area to highlight the issue of access to sanitary products, which…Read more…
‘Lessons still to be learned’
Bakira Hasečić – like many of the tens of thousands of women and children survivors who were brutally raped, abused and tortured during the Bosnian War – could never go home again. After the…Read more…
‘We don’t know how to use our power’
Thabitha Khumalo, an MP in Zimbabwe for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party, of which she is a founding member, has been fighting for human rights and social justice since she…Read more…
Women need their union
Today is International Women’s Day (IWD), a day where we celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. But Unite believes that this tear IWD marks a call to action for…Read more…
Let’s celebrate!
On International Women’s Day today (March 8), Unite is marking the day to celebrate women and their achievements – but just as importantly to highlight the many injustices women in the UK and across…Read more…
The suffragette spirit
A member of the world’s most famous feminist family, Helen Pankhurst talks about feminism, her hopes for her children, and what men can do to help the movement
The article The suffragette spirit…Read more…
Blog: Child Marriage is Child Labour
This International Women’s Day it is important that we stand up for equality in every workplace; for decent work and freedom from violence and harassment for women everywhere. Child marriage is child…Read more…
‘Determination for change’
Unite Community activists in Durham are highlighting the disproportionate effect of Tory cuts on women during International Women’s Day today (March 8). Unite Community Durham branch activists…Read more…
A Brexit for women
Women’s voices are missing from the Brexit debate, missing from the table and it’s time that changed. This was the message from Unite’s London and Eastern region Women and Brexit event held in the…Read more…
Women rising up
A collective platform of women and women’s organisations in the UK launched this week to raise awareness of and campaign against the Turkish invasion of Afrin, an area of Northern Syria. The…Read more…