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Unpaid, risking trouble at work and not always thanked – why do UNISON’s 40,000 activists do it?

Unison has condemned the latest workforce statistics published by Universities UK that show that women make up 54% of the total higher education workforce, but despite this 63% of those paid below £17678 are women. This equates to over 20,000 female support staff working at UK universities. The same report highlights that whilst men make […]

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’

During Heart UNISON week it’s worth remembering that while taking strike action is never easy, the results can make a huge difference to people’s lives

Women are being hit hardest by government cuts and by changes that restrict access to justice, Dave Prentis tells women’s conference

‘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

Reading council – the only local authority in England and Wales never to settle an equal pay claim – will today (Monday) be challenged in court by more than 60 women owed over £1.5m because they were paid less than their male colleagues for years, says their union UNISON. The women – mostly care workers, […]

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