Search Results for “ttip” Motions

Declining Bus Services and Impact on Pensioners

Conference: 2023 National Retired Members Conference
Date: 9 June 2023
Decision: Carried

This conference deplores the continuing decline in local bus services throughout the UK. Not only have services been substantially cut but those services that have been retained are often unreliable, unpredictable and infrequent. Buses are an essential part of the local, regional and national economies, playing a vital role in the transport system, especially for […]

Motion on the UNISON National site.

2023 National Retired Members Conference

ACCESSIBLE ORGANISING FOR LGBT+ MEMBERS

Conference: 2022 National LGBT+ Conference
Date: 22 September 2022
Decision: Carried

Conference notes that UNISON national LGBT+ committee has produced resources to support the recruitment of LGBT+ members and development of LGBT+ activists. These include ‘Putting politics back into Pride – a UNISON practical guide to recruiting and organising’, ‘Digital organising for LGBT+ equality guide’ and bargaining factsheets to support negotiations with employers for our LGBT+ […]

Motion on the UNISON National site.

2022 National LGBT+ Conference

Global Vaccine Inequality

Conference: 2022 National Delegate Conference
Date: 22 February 2022
Decision: Carried

Conference expresses its deep concern at the ongoing inequity in access to Covid-19 vaccines globally. In addition to the strong moral imperative, failure to ensure high vaccine coverage in all countries puts everyone at risk from new, potentially vaccine resistant variants of the virus. Conference notes that sixty nine of the world’s poorest and most […]

Motion on the UNISON National site.

2022 National Delegate Conference

Climate change and higher education

Conference: 2020 Higher Education Service Group Conference
Date: 26 September 2019
Decision: Carried

UNISON HE conference notes: 1)The Earth’s temperature has already risen by 1.1 degree above pre-industrial levels and that the amount of sheet ice lost annually from the Antarctic has increased six-fold between 1979-2017. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report last autumn warned that we only have 12 years to keep global warming to […]

Motion on the UNISON National site.

2020 Higher Education Service Group Conference

Combatting the far right on campus Motion 2020

Conference: 2020 Higher Education Service Group Conference
Date: 23 September 2019
Decision: Carried

Conference Notes: 1)The far-right are attempting to take their message of racism, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism onto university and college campuses. 2)The far-right group ‘Generation Identity’ have appeared on over 20 campuses, holding stunts and meetings. 3)Turning Point UK, a group with links to the alt-right in the US, have attempted to set up student societies […]

Motion on the UNISON National site.

2020 Higher Education Service Group Conference

Austerity and Public Safety

Conference: 2019 National Delegate Conference
Date: 18 February 2019
Decision: Carried as Amended

Conference believes that a decade of Tory austerity has starved our communities of essential services, eroded the resilience of the public sector and removed vital safety nets. It has also made communities less safe and left vulnerable people without the help they need. Public services are a lifeline for the most disadvantaged communities and it […]

Motion on the UNISON National site.

2019 National Delegate Conference

Organising for LGBT Equality in the Community Sector

Conference: 2018 Community Service Group Conference
Date: 10 November 2017
Decision: Carried as Amended

Conference notes that UNISON carried out its second equality survey in summer 2017 and received just 743 responses (6.79%) from members stating that they worked in the community sector which is disappointing considering we are the fastest growing sector with over 60,000 members. Of all respondents, 6% identified as lesbian, gay or bisexual and 0.4% […]

Motion on the UNISON National site.

Stop Porn Culture

Conference: 2018 National Women's Conference
Date: 12 September 2017
Decision: Carried

The pornography industry has pushed its way into our lives, distorting our conceptions of sex and sexuality. Pornography offers people a vision of sexuality rooted in men’s domination of women and women’s acceptance of their own degradation. Pornography is not simply the sexist, naked Playboy photos from earlier times. Those pin-up-type centrefolds look tame when […]

Motion on the UNISON National site.

2018 National Women's Conference

46. Organ Donation

Conference
Date: June 16, 2017
Decision

Conference notes medical science has pioneered relentlessly for many years, to extend and improve human life, Organ, and tissue donation is no exception. However what is the exception is the lack of publicity given to organ and tissue donation, there is literally thousands of people waiting for a donation, for: kidney, heart, liver, lungs, also […]