Glasgow delegates agree wide-ranging strategy to turn the tide over low pay
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UNISON’s national delegate conference discusses devolution
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Deirdre Costigan for the LGBT group also warned that if integration of health and social care was done badly it would have a negative impact on LGBT workers and service users […]
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General secretary Dave Prentis will be joined by international guests from Swaziland, Colombia, Israel and Nigeria. We will also be launching an appeal for the […]
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Trade unions continue to have a crucial role in tackling inequality, conference told
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The WET delegates agreed a motion that "opposes, as a matter of principle, the deregulation and privatisation agenda which so clearly lies at its heart." Ruth Davies, chair of the WET service group executive […]
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- Conference
- 2015 National Women's Conference
- Date
- 14 October 2014
- Decision
- Carried
2) The efforts of UNISON to champion equal pay for its women members winning a series of landmark cases and forcing employers to introduce […]
Motion on the UNISON National
site.
- Conference
- 2015 National Delegate Conference
- Date
- 23 February 2015
- Decision
- Carried
Conference recognises that the debate on fiscal and legislative devolution is fast moving across the UK and that public opinion across the United […]
Motion on the UNISON National
site.
- Conference
- 2015 National Women's Conference
- Date
- 13 October 2014
- Decision
- Carried
Conference is deeply concerned at the impact of the rising cost of housing on UNISON members, particularly for those living in private rented accommodation. Recent research found that spiraling rental costs and stagnant wage growth mean 1.6million households are forced to spend more than half their disposable income on housing – and single women, particularly […]
Motion on the UNISON National
site.
- Conference
- 2015 National Women's Conference
- Date
- 8 October 2014
- Decision
- Carried
Conference, fibroids are small benign tumours that grow on the walls of the womb, inside and out, and can range from a single growth to multiple. For most women they give no cause for concern and grow unnoticed. But, for others, the genetic disorder can mean heavy and painful periods and lead to fatigue and […]
Motion on the UNISON National
site.
- Conference
- 2015 National Delegate Conference
- Date
- 23 February 2015
- Decision
- Carried
Conference is concerned that collective bargaining and pay determination agreements have been under sustained Tory-led attacks. They have sought to destroy the very agreements that prevent them and their business friends from imposing poverty pay with no holiday or sick leave entitlements. Threats of regional pay bargaining are just the tip of the iceberg. Local […]
Motion on the UNISON National
site.
- Conference
- 2015 National Women's Conference
- Date
- 14 October 2014
- Decision
- Carried as Amended
b) 400,000 women suffered sexual assault c) 70,000 women were raped d) One incident of domestic violence is reported to the police every minute e) On average, 2 women each week are killed by current or […]
Motion on the UNISON National
site.
- Conference
- 2015 National Delegate Conference
- Date
- 1 January 2015
- Decision
- Carried
The most disadvantaged in society, including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT), women, disabled, Black, young and older people, are the most reliant on public services and are […]
Motion on the UNISON National
site.
- Conference
- 2015 National Delegate Conference
- Date
- 23 February 2015
- Decision
- Carried as Amended
Conference is deeply concerned that job insecurity, in-work poverty and workplace exploitation have become the hallmarks of the so-called economic recovery in the UK. While the growth of zero hours contracts has rightly attracted the public’s attention, they are only the tip of the ice berg. The proliferation of short hour contracts, false-self employment and […]
Motion on the UNISON National
site.
- Conference
- 2015 National Women's Conference
- Date
- 15 October 2014
- Decision
- Carried as Amended
Instead, coercive control explains the range of tactics used by perpetrators to intimidate and control women. In Stark’s own phrase, the concept explains ‘how men entrap women in everyday […]
Motion on the UNISON National
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