UNISON Equalities Training Seminar 2026 – Open to all Water Industry, Environment, Transport Sector and Energy members
Equality in workplaces and wider society is fundamental to UNISON Energy and WET branches, and runs through everything that reps and activists do across these Service Groups, as it does across the whole union. This annual seminar seeks to engage members interested in expanding their engagement with this work.
About the seminar
This seminar is open to all members in UNISON branches across the water industry, environment agencies, the transport sector and the energy sector, which includes all members in the WET or Energy Service Groups, who are interested in learning more and sharing ideas on promoting equality and diversity in their workplaces and in wider society as part of their trade union work.
The programme will include presentations, guest speakers, member-led workshops, group activities and network opportunities centred around a variety of areas of equalities work.
Key information
Dates: Friday 17th July (from 5pm) to Sunday 19th July (lunchtime close)
Location: Glasgow
Seminar venue and accommodation: Courtyard Hotel by Marriott, Glasgow
Registering seminar delegates
Branches are invited to seek expressions of interest from their members on attending this training seminar, and are free to use the information on this page to assist with this.
Members in WET and Energy branches who are themselves interested in attending this seminar should contact their Branch Secretaries.
All registrations of members to attend this seminar must be made via the OCS system.
How to register
Delegate registration is handled via the UNISON OCS system. Branch Secretaries, Branch Chairs or Branch Administrators should register all attendees via the ‘2026 WET & Energy Equalities Seminar’ event in the ‘Conferences’ section of their OCS site.
Registration fees
Registration costs to branches are as follows. These rates cover two nights’ accommodation, breakfasts, lunches and refreshments across the weekend, evening meals on the Friday and Saturday evenings, and all seminar materials.
- Early Bird rate: £400 – applies to registrations made by 31 May.
- Standard rate: £420 – applies to registrations made by 3 July.
- Young Member rate: £380 – applies to all Young Member registrations made before 3 July.
The final deadline for all registrations is Friday 3 July. Spaces on this event are limited.
Further details on registrations, including OCS instructions, can be found here:
Seminar programme
A provisional programme for this seminar will be posted on this page as soon as it is available. It is expected that the programme will include sessions that cover the following (updated regularly):
- Employment Right Act – Exploring the new workplace equality employment rights and and enhanced rights for trade union equality reps coming into force in 2026-27.
- Young Workers – Organising young members in UNISON, and exploring key bargaining and campaigning priorities.
- Focus on the Populist Right – Workshops from Hope Not Hate and others on exploring the rise of the populist far-right, and effective ways of countering this.
Contact for further details
If there are any queries or questions on any aspect of this event that are not addressed elsewhere on this page, please click here to email the organisers directly.
