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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Mr Kippest was referring to the union’s report ‘15 minutes of shame’ which revealed carers were being allowed no more […]
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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 office of a garment […]
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A recent Oxfam report has stated that by 2016 the top 1% of society would possess more than 50% of the world’s wealth. And the latest annual […]
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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 […]
Motion on the UNISON National
site.
- Conference
- 2015 National Women's Conference
- Date
- 13 October 2014
- Decision
- Carried
Recent research found that spiraling rental costs and stagnant wage growth mean 1.6million households are forced to spend more than half their disposable […]
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
Indeed, statistics confirm that in Redcar and Cleveland, women aged 45+ make up 25% of the population, suggesting there is an even larger […]
Motion on the UNISON National
site.
- Conference
- 2015 National Delegate Conference
- Date
- 1 January 2015
- Decision
- Carried
Conference notes that the European Union (EU) is currently negotiating three free trade agreements including the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The others are the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with Canada (CETA) and the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA). These agreements threaten public services by harmonising regulatory standards, forcing through market liberalisation and […]
Motion on the UNISON National
site.
- Conference
- 2015 National Delegate Conference
- Date
- 23 February 2015
- Decision
- Carried as Amended
The proliferation of short hour contracts, false-self employment and the continuing exploitation of agency workers underlines the workings of a deeply unjust labour […]
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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