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…
Making the case for compulsory sex and relationships education
Today sees the launch of a new campaign for Sex and Relationships Education (SRE), set up by the End Violence Against Women coalition and the Everyday Sexism project, and supported by the TUC. The SREnow campaign calls for SRE to be made compulsory in …Read more…
‘Our service saves lives’
Counsellors, support workers and staff at a charity that helps victims of sexual abuse and rape in Northern Ireland are organising with Unite to keep the vital service open, as the impact of…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…
Unite Policy Conference 2016 – Wednesday’s business
I’ve already posted videos of Jeremy Corbyn’s speech and Sharon Graham’s presentation on the Unite Industrial Strategy – Work, Voice, Pay.
The liveliest debate of the day was around the aftermath of the EU referendum and what UNITE’s position on freed…Read more…
Help campaign against FGM and child marriage
Donate now to the UNISON-supported fundraising campaign to support West African activists working to end FGM and child marriage: donate by 18 July and your gift will be doubled
The article Help…Read more…
UNISON women join protest against pension inquality
Union members join WASPI lobby of Parliament over pension age increases
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‘Refugee lives do matter’
National delegate conference agrees to continue working to combat myths around migration
The article ‘Refugee lives do matter’ first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
EU referendum campaign: hearing from women at last
Over the last week, a new group of voters has risen to some sort of prominence in the EU referendum campaign, despite previously being pretty much ignored in the coverage of the increasingly febrile…Read more…
Let women be heard
Women’s voices are being drowned out of the EU referendum debate and must be heard, senior Labour women have said. The call, made on the same day as the TUC published a report highlighting the…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…
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…
Wakefield invited to join commission on women and local government
Head of local government will ask women across the union to contribute ideas on what should be discussed
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Pregnancy bias: Unite call secures study
A government study that exposes the disgraceful pregnancy and maternity discrimination experienced by three out of four working mothers has finally been released, following pressure from Unite….Read more…
390,000 women a year are discriminated against in pregnancy yet only 1% take tribunal claim
Today the EHRC published its long awaited report and recommendations on pregnancy discrimination. This follows on from last year’s interim report which found that 54,000 women per year are forced out of their jobs due to pregnancy discrimination. The final report leads with the astounding headline…Read more…
Select committee holds government to account over gender pay gap
Just last week, the Chancellor proudly announced in the Budget that the government was winning on the gender pay gap. He said (pretty much cutting and pasting from previous speeches): “Inequality is down; and the gender pay gap has never been smaller.” But today we are told by the Women and…Read more…
For males only?
A cross-party committee of MPs released a damning report today (March 22) into the government’s inadequate response to a yawning 20 per cent gender pay gap that’s showed no signs of abating over the…Read more…
Gender pay gap persists
The gender pay gap in the UK remains stubbornly high – despite so many advances in equalities over the last half century, women still only earn 80p for every £1 a man earns. Even more galling…Read more…
The inequality challenge
First written in 1980, this book now covers the period from the 1830s to 2010. Sarah Burton reveals that at the advent of industrialisation much of the workforce, particularly in…Read more…
The young mother penalty
Women who have children at a younger age suffer a significant pay penalty throughout their careers compared to older mothers, a new TUC analysis published today (March 8) has revealed. The TUC…Read more…