Organising to Win in Community

Conference notes the adoption of the national interim Organising Recruitment Strategy Development (ORSD) project recommendations by UNISON and the linked Organising, Recruitment and Retention Plan. These recommendations include securing: Disaggregated membership targets of 1% growth in each regional service group; A 10% increase on 2022 levels of recruitment of stewards, Health & Safety reps and […]

Supporting Organising in Community Hybrid Workplaces

This branch has found that in many community workplaces since the COVID-19 pandemic, many employees now opt for complete homeworking or hybrid working (coming into the office two days a week) if they have the option to do so. Furthermore, many charities have closed their offices, forcing their workers to become homeworkers. Many community employers […]

Women’s Mental Health at Work

Conference notes that the workforce in the community sector especially in the social care sector is overwhelmingly female. The additional pressures on women working in the community sector, especially low paid women have seen almost 3 in 5 of these women experience poor mental health where work is a contributing factor. However, for Black women […]