2) The efforts of UNISON to champion equal pay for its women members winning a series of landmark cases and forcing employers to introduce […]
Conference recognises that the debate on fiscal and legislative devolution is fast moving across the UK and […]
Recent research found that spiraling rental costs and stagnant wage growth mean 1.6million households are forced to spend more than half their disposable […]
Conference, Black women suffer disproportionately from fibroids and are three to five times more likely to […]
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 […]
Older women may experience more barriers to disclosure than younger women, and may therefore be more reluctant to report violence. These barriers include; 1) […]
The others are the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with Canada (CETA) and the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA). These agreements […]
The proliferation of short hour contracts, false-self employment and the continuing exploitation of agency workers underlines the workings of a deeply unjust labour […]
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 […]
They are very often expected to hold down many additional roles, - including parenting, caring, and household responsibilities. This Conference further believes that young women are especially […]
There has been a roll-back on equality and human rights throughout the UK despite decades of anti-discrimination legislation, statutory duties to promote equality of opportunity, domestic legislation on human rights and the UK’s obligations under a wide range of EU and UN equality and human rights instruments. The persistent attack on public services has further […]
Few HR and OH departments are well informed about this disease; attendance management and health and safety policies are often not […]
While we have seen this government attack welfare benefits, there are still many woman workers above the threshold for in work benefits who are struggling. They are unable to access initiatives […]
Rule D 1.7.2 delete “ Deputy General Secretaries”
Conference notes that 2015 is the next opportunity for women to make their vote account in removing the malicious condem government from power. Conference notes that the turn out in the Scottish independence vote demonstrates that voter apathy can be overcome, and it is therefore essential that we campaign now to ensure that women vote […]
