- Conference
- 2022 National Delegate Conference
- Date
- 21 February 2022
- Decision
- Carried
Next year, in 2023, UNISON will celebrate 30 years as a trade union.
At its creation, UNISON became a union with the majority of its members being women and from the start put rules in place to ensure proportionality.
Delegates to UNISON conferences and committees across all its structures ensure that two-thirds of those nominated to participate are women, with seats reserved for low paid women.
However, now as the UK’s largest union, the proportion of women members has grown to approximately 75% and it is possibly higher, numbering around one million in total.
As UNISON approaches its landmark birthday in 2023, it is the time to review what progress has been made to ensure women are represented in proportion to their strength in the union.
Conference calls on the National Executive Council to:
1)Produce a statistical report:
a)Showing the numbers of men and women holding branch officer posts as defined in Rule G 4.1.1;
b)Showing the numbers of men and women holding the role of steward and also indicate how many are low paid;
c)With the results to be broken down by Service Group and also by Region;
d)To be published by September this year and distributed to all Branches and Regions for discussion across the union.
2)Produce a detailed report to be submitted to National Delegate Conference 2023 with an action plan and recommendations to improve the number of women participating at all levels in UNISON.