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Conference

2002 National Lesbian & Gay Conference

Date

31 July 2002

Decision

Carried as Amended

Conference instructs the National Lesbian and Gay Committee (NLGC) to carry out the actions set out in the recommendations of the report ‘Organising for Our Future’ as follows: 1.to introduce a written constitution for the NLGC, from existing and agreed policies and procedures; 2.to increase the flow of information to activists by introducing more regular […]

An ambulance worker who lost the job he loved as a result of a serious back injury, has today accepted an offer of £140,000 compensation from the Greater Manchester Ambulance Service. Mr Norman Thurrell (58) was supported by his union, UNISON, after he was badly injured in August 1999 as a result of faulty ambulance equipment

UNISON, the UK

Conference

2005 Retired Members' Conference

Date

15 June 2005

Decision

Carried as Amended

Conference is aware that as members become older it becomes increasingly difficult and in some cases impossible to obtain suitable travel insurance especially on an annual policy basis, at a reasonable price. Our own UIA no longer offers an annual policy to those over 65 years and will only offer individual trips at highly inflated […]

Conference

2006 Health Care Service Group Conference

Date

21 December 2005

Decision

Carried as Amended

This Conference affirms that violence and aggression toward NHS staff is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated. Recent statistics show that the level of violence is worryingly high. All too familiar are the shocking reports we hear from nurses, paramedics and other health workers that they have been assaulted, punched, kicked, spat at and […]

Shocking statistics showing 1 in every 22 NHS staff has been assaulted are the

Conference

2007 National Women's Conference

Date

25 October 2006

Decision

Carried as Amended

The plight of many women held against their will and used as sex slaves came to the public’s attention during the World Cup in Germany, however this is only the tip of the iceberg. In Britain there are estimated to be at least 5,000 women who may be working as prostitutes after being trafficked to […]

Conference

2007 Health Care Service Group Conference

Date

20 December 2006

Decision

Carried

Conference notes with alarm the savage reductions in staffing levels of donor collection staff and the closure of processing centres. The reduction of staff in teams has meant consistent understaffing, leading to stress, extended working days with the resultant damage to personal and family life. Whilst UNISON recognises the fall in demand for blood, it […]

The £340m spent by local councils across the East Midlands on agency staff and private consultants is just the Òtip of the icebergÓ says UNISON, the UKÕs largest public sector union today (9 July). The shocking figures, revealed by a freedom of information request, highlight the amount of money spent locally by individual councils in the region since April 2005

Conference

2009 National Delegate Conference

Date

29 May 2009

Decision

Carried

Conference reiterates its belief that only when a sovereign, independent, democratic, contiguous and viable Palestine state is created, living side by side with a secure Israel will there be chance for peace and stability in the Middle East. Conference strongly believes that justice for the Palestinian people is essential to any solution to the existing […]

Injured bin man receives compensation

UNISON holds employers to account for workplace injuries

Conference

2011 Water, Environment & Transport Service Group

Date

4 February 2011

Decision

Carried

This 2011 Water, Environment and Transport Conference is concerned at the actions of Cambridge Water who have closed their final salary pension scheme to existing members as well as new entrants. We see this as a very disturbing development and call upon the Service Group Executive to try to ensure this is not the tip […]

Decent back up and IT system a necesity, not a luxury

The Bill paves the way for the privatisation of the NHS