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Conference

2016 National Women's Conference

Date

14 October 2015

Decision

Carried

This conference notes That key research published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission in July 2015, Pregnancy and Maternity Related Discrimination and Disadvantage highlighted ongoing problems for pregnant women in the workplace, for example it discovered of the women surveyed: • One in 9 mothers were dismissed or made compulsorily redundant whilst others were […]

Conference

2016 National Women's Conference

Date

14 October 2015

Decision

Carried

Conference further notes that in April 2013 changes to the Legal Aid system came into effect, through the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of […]

Conference

2016 National Women's Conference

Date

14 October 2015

Decision

Carried

A survey by the Rights of Women organisation found that 39% of women who were victims of domestic violence had none of the forms of evidence […]

Conference

2016 National Women's Conference

Date

14 October 2015

Decision

Carried as Amended

UNISON can be proud of the campaigning we have done to highlight and tackle the issue of in work poverty. The Worth It campaign took the message out to our communities and women members. Under the Government’s austerity measures it has been women and their families who have borne the brunt of their policies and […]

Conference

2016 National Women's Conference

Date

14 October 2015

Decision

Carried as Amended

Conference notes with concern that constraints on branch finances are leading to some women not being encouraged or able to participate in women’s self-organised group activities. Conference notes with concern that financial constraints and controls at branch and regional level may be negatively impinging on women’s activism and as a consequence reducing the opportunities to […]

Conference

2016 National Women's Conference

Date

14 October 2015

Decision

Carried as Amended

In the UK approximately 5.5 million working mothers of dependent children pay for child care. With increasing costs of childcare, other household bills and stagnant or reducing salaries, women are finding it harder and harder to stay in work. In the 2015 budget the government announced an increase of free childcare from 15 hours to […]

Conference

2016 National Women's Conference

Date

14 October 2015

Decision

Carried

The British judicial system was based on the bedrock that justice must not only be done, but be seen to be done as well. It should not be a system where justice should be done only to those who are rich enough to afford it. But in the UK the Government‘s austerity measures are adversely […]

Conference

2016 National Women's Conference

Date

14 October 2015

Decision

Carried as Amended

Conference notes that across the UK women remain massively underrepresented in the political and decision making processes that influence our lives, especially working class women. Conference further notes that women currently make up: o 29% of MP’s in the English Parliament o 40% of Welsh Assembly members o 35% of Scottish Parliament members o 19% […]

Conference

2016 National Women's Conference

Date

13 October 2015

Decision

Carried as Amended

Conference notes that Group B Strep is a potentially fatal infection for newborn babies. In fact, it is recorded as the biggest killer of newborns and that it colonises in the vagina of 22% of all women. Because the women are carriers rather than being infected by the bacteria there are no symptoms therefore this […]

Conference

2016 National Women's Conference

Date

13 October 2015

Decision

Carried

UNISON is a union of over 1 million women members. Due to the government’s austerity measures over the last 5 years many of these will have seen their standard of living fall and many will be living in poverty. Researchers show that by moving from a minimum wage to a living wage 4.8 million women […]

Conference

2016 National Women's Conference

Date

13 October 2015

Decision

Carried

From the rise in domestic violence, to increased homelessness, benefit sanctions which have driven people with long term conditions into desperation and disabled women labelled as scroungers and vulnerable on the streets and in their homes – Austerity is a killing machine. Job losses and increased poverty leads to violent reactions that impact women and […]

Conference

2016 National Women's Conference

Date

13 October 2015

Decision

Carried as Amended

Flexible working is a way for women workers to change their working hours to suit their needs. For example having the flexibility to change their start […]

Conference

2016 National Women's Conference

Date

13 October 2015

Decision

Carried

Conference notes with growing concern the funding crisis within services that support women who have experienced rape and sexual violence. In August 2015 it was reported that nationally none of the 46 Rape crisis organisations in England and Wales had secure funding beyond March 2016 despite a 50% increase in the number of survivors receiving […]

Conference

2016 National Women's Conference

Date

7 October 2015

Decision

Carried

Conference recognises that the move by many employers to limiting the use of flexible working arrangements and/ or the introduction of long shifts disproportionately affects women, yet the equality act gives us limited support in tackling these issues, and equality impact assessments are often tick box exercises rather than an effective measure of the issues. […]

Conference

2016 National Women's Conference

Date

2 October 2015

Decision

Carried

Changes to benefits will force more women and children in Black communities into poverty. Women from Black […]