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A new survey will help your union to understand the problem and guide work on it

“I’ve also had customers hurl racist abuse at me and others have refused to be served by me.”

A paramedic recalls her experience of violence at work

UNISON conference hears stories of violence and aggression including teaching assistants having to wear stab vests

Two new organisations sign up to UNISON’s charter

Conference hears that energy members should not have to face aggression and abuse at work

UNISON lays down plans to protect service and workers after hearing of members burned out and facing threats and violence

Staff and students have suffered serious injuries as a result of offensive weapons being brought into colleges, according to a UNISON survey published today (Tuesday). Machetes, hammers, metal bars and even a gun are among the items either recovered or that have been used in pupil-on-pupil assaults, gang attacks or in violent incidents against staff, […]

City council becomes first to make union’s charter a key part of its commissioning process

UNISON has written to every elected councillor in the UK asking them to make the union’s End Violence at Work Charter a central part of their commissioning process

Violence at work involves any incident in which an employee is abused, threatened or assaulted (either physically or verbally) in circumstances relating to their work.

June saw a number of highlights for the union and our members glisten in the early summer sunshine

MPs join UNISON members and employers at parliamentary launch of union’s Violence at Work charter

Date

11 June 2018 3:00pm–4:30pm

Location

Macmillan Room, Portcullis House, Westminster

This event is a parliamentary reception to celebrate the impact of UNISON’s Violence at Work Charter, our union’s campaign to end violence against staff in the community sector Our members in the charity, community and housing association sectors are greatly concerned by the exposure of staff to violence and aggression in the course of their […]

Community service group committed to using the charter to help end the belief that violence and aggression is ‘part of the job’