UNISON president Wendy Nichols opens women’s conference in Brighton with call to action
The article ‘We have always overcome obstacles in our way’ first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
UNITE constitutional timetable 2016
Each year there is a schedule of meetings, intended to ensure key meetings don’t clash with each other. For 2016 the schedule is as follows:
Regional Industrial Sector Committees; Area Activists Committees; Regional Equalities & Regional Labour Pa…Read more…
♡ UNISON: because we fight for equal pay
‘Work with us, in partnership with employers rather than as adversaries, to close the gender pay gap’
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UNISON bursaries for activists
Activists can apply for substantial financial help for trade union and labour studies and women’s studies courses
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Honouring Ellen
Unite helped organise a unique domestic violence commemorative event on Sunday November 29 and will now assist with establishing a website that will honour domestic violence victims and provide…Read more…
Trade unions campaign to eliminate violence against women
Today (25 November) is the United Nation’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and the start of the #16DaysofActivism (to 10 December’s Human Rights Day) of Activism against Gender-Based Violence. According to the World Health Organisation, 1 in 3 women around the world…Read more…
Campaigning to end violence against women and girls
25 November is UN day to eliminate violence against woman and girls
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Campaigning to end violence against women and girls
25 November is UN day to eliminate violence against woman and girls
The article Campaigning to end violence against women and girls first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
The 50-year pay gap
The UK is now on track to close the pay gap with men. A girl born this week will see equal pay between men and women in her lifetime. Good news indeed – although she’ll have to wait till the time she…Read more…
UNISON wins equal pay settlement for Fife women
More than 1,400 women will benefit after settlement worth millions reached on claims
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Gloria Mills elected as ETUC women’s committee president
Union congratulates senior equalities officer on new role in European trade unionism
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Suffragettes in the spotlight
A team of women filmmakers have brought the story of the suffragette movement to the big screen, with a very special woman among the extras
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‘UNISON has always stood up for women’
UNISON president rebuts claims that the union is dominated by men
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Women in UNISON
When national newspapers (Gender And Unity In The Labour Movement – Guardian 17 Sept) are used to urge that its time for ‘a woman’ to lead UNISON perhaps its time to look at where women are in the…Read more…
End gender pensions gap
Ceri Wright, a Unite delegate from the finance sector, spoke today (September 16) on the gender pension gap. According to a report from Prudential, women can expect an average retirement…Read more…
Campaign for pregnant workers
Unite assistant general secretary Diana Holland today (Tuesday, September 15) moved a motion at the TUC in support of pregnant women facing discrimination at work. “When I first became a union…Read more…
The fight for 5050 and fair politics for everyone
As the arguments over women’s representation in public and political life are rehearsed again during the parliamentary scrutiny of the Scotland Bill, it may be appropriate to reflect on the wider…Read more…
UNISON Champion – June Poole RIP
I was shocked to hear the sad news that UNISON stalwart, June Poole, has passed away after a short illness. We were supposed to meet yesterday at the UNISON centre in London for a Board meeting of the Welfare Trustees.This meeting was cancelled out of …Read more…
Checking for discrimination in selection
There are many situations, from recruitment to promotion to redundancies, where employers make selections between people. You often hear people talking about the importance of doing “Equality Impact Assessments” and checking for discrimination, but I’v…Read more…
Cambodia’s minimum wage: employers plead poverty despite global brand pledges to pay
Cambodia is one of the main sources of textiles for Europe and North America, and it’s on the front line of the campaign for a living wage in global supply chains. So the forthcoming review of…Read more…