Unpaid, risking trouble at work and not always thanked – why do UNISON’s 40,000 activists do it?
Unpaid, risking trouble at work and not always thanked – why do UNISON’s 40,000 activists do it?
The same report highlights that whilst men make up 46% of the total university workforce, men make up over 70% of those staff paid over £57,032. UNISON’s General Secretary Dave […]
A team of women filmmakers have brought the story of the suffragette movement to the big screen, with a very special woman among the extras
More than 1,400 women will benefit after settlement worth millions reached on claims
Today is the point at which the average woman working full-time starts working for free
‘Work with us, in partnership with employers rather than as adversaries, to close the gender pay gap’
And here are four brief examples from the archive. The match girls strike for better work conditions In 1888, the workforce at the Bryant & May match factory in London faced […]
Cuts to local councils have meant fewer domestic violence workers, fewer refuges and fewer options for women to protect themselves and their families. This increasingly desperate situation makes trying […]
‘Trade unions are a force for good and a force for equality in our society’, Labour leader tells conference
Women with children face a wider gender pay gap, says a new report from the Institute of Fiscal Studies
The women – mostly care workers, cooks and administrators – are angry that seven years on from the council’s acceptance it had […]
Today, Reading council – the only local authority in England and Wales to have never settled an equal pay claim – will face 60 women in court, challenging them to cough up the £1.5 million they missed out on by being paid less than their male colleagues for years
‘Higher education workers deserve fair pay’ conference declares as it sets out plans to build joint pay claim with fellow unions
Suffragettes will lead Scottish demonstration in continuing struggle over grading system and equal pay
Around 8,000 school staff, nursery workers, care workers, caterers and cleaners – the majority of them UNISON members – will walk out on 23 and 24 October in the largest equal pay strike since the Equal Pay Act was passed