As the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, gets ready to deliver his Budget today, he would do well to remember the 47 per cent. That’s the proportion of women in the UK workforce. With this year’s…Read more…
International Women’s Day: 50-50 by 2030
Today (8 March) is International Women’s Day (#IWD2017) and the UN’s chosen theme for this year focusses on ‘Women in the Changing World of Work: Planet 50-50 by 2030’. This theme chimes well with the values of the TUC and our sister trade unions around the world who will be joining the global…Read more…
And the fight goes on…
It’s been more than a century since International Women’s Day was first proposed, but the pressing need for a day for women to voice their demands in their struggle for equality has hardly…Read more…
Sexual harassment is rife at work
Delegates at UNISON women’s conference show sexual harassment is rife at work, and beyond.
The article Sexual harassment is rife at work first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Women’s conference condemns child marriage
Delegates debate emergency motion that triggers shocking emotional testament and call for ILO action to stop girls vanishing from child labour statistics because they are ‘married’
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Time for pension equality
Women’s conference shows full support for WASPI campaign for pension equality
The article Time for pension equality first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Dave Prentis tells conference ‘we will campaign against Trump’
Dave Prentis announces UNISON’s official support for Stop Trump UK as he speaks at the union’s women’s conference in Brighton
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Agreement on building fire and rescue equality welcomed
Employers, unions and other stakeholders sign memorandum of understanding
The article Agreement on building fire and rescue equality welcomed first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Pregnancy discrimination: Government action is long overdue and misses the point
Today the government published its long overdue response to the Women and Equalities Select Committee report on pregnancy and maternity discrimination. Given that the EHRC estimate that some 54,000 women are forced out of their jobs per year due to pre…Read more…
High heel ‘probe’
After being sent home for not wearing high heels on the first day of her new job at accountancy firm PwC, Nicola Thorp started a petition which in days garnered more than 150,000 signatures, as…Read more…
Like dust we rise
Not since the Vietnam War have so many people across the world taken to the streets to defend progressive values, with women’s marches organised in dozens of cities globally on Saturday (January 21),…Read more…
Women pay for austerity
While almost every group outside those on the top end of the income distribution have suffered immeasurably under nearly a decade of austerity, it is women who are footing the largest bill. …Read more…
Women, crime and inequality
Official statistics show that you’re more likely to be a victim of violent crime or domestic abuse if you are a woman and if you live in a poorer part of the country. A woman living in one of the most deprived parts of the country is nearly four times as likely as a man…
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‘Unity not division’
Last week the right-wing terrorist who murdered Labour MP Jo Cox was given a whole life sentence. White supremacist Thomas Mair stabbed and shot Cox in Birstall, a town in West Yorkshire that…Read more…
‘We should not have to wait’
“It’s been estimated that if we continue on the same path we have been, it’ll take another 170 years before women finally achieve equal pay. We’ve already waited nearly 50 years since the Equal…Read more…
Because you’re a woman…
One of the biggest misconceptions about the gender pay gap – which remains stubbornly high at nearly 14 per cent – is that it’s all a myth. There’s this idea that women earn less because they…Read more…
Unite Executive Council Elections
The union is gearing up for elections to its Executive Council (EC), which is effectively the ruling body of the union between policy and rules conferences.
The Unite web site has a page about the forthcoming elections. This includes a helpful new boo…Read more…
easyJet: Staff breast feeding victory
Expectant mothers and mothers of young children have never had it worse in the workplace – a wide-ranging Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) study published earlier this year found that the…Read more…
‘No-go area’ for women
The higher up the income ladder you are in the UK, the less likely it is that you’re a woman. This was the conclusion of a new report by the London School of Economics out this week (September 26)…Read more…
Wanted: flexible hours
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…