International Women’s Day activities #BalanceForBetter Friday 8 March 2019 10am-4pm, Coleg y Cymoedd Nantgarw Campus Cardiff CF15 7QY To mark International Women’s Day 2019 (Friday 8 March), Velindre University NHS Trust and UNISON Cymru Wales are hosting in partnership an event looking at women’s history, struggles and successes. This will include: Exhibition of ‘Wall of […]
We speak to Debbie Rowden, one of the newer members of UNISON Eastern women’s committee, for International Women’s Day
On International Women’s Day, UNISON’s National Health and Safety Committee and Women’s Committee will be hosting a webinar on the hazards in women’s work.
“Then Italy invaded Ethiopia and there wasn't much of a ground swell of resistance to it, so she started a newspaper called the New Times and Ethiopia News.” Ethiopia was liberated […]
International Womens Day 2021 – A learning opportunity for Women in UNISON SW
International Women’s Day (8 March) is a global celebration of the economic, political and social achievements of women past and present and this year will be particularly important as it marks 100 years since the day was honoured for the first time. For more info: www.internationalwomensday.com Women’s history has been long overlooked. During the month […]
With the UK having just started its first full year under a Boris Johnson government, one of the dominant themes at conference was continuing austerity – because, aside from the announcement of a rise in the national minimum wage to come in the spring, election campaign promises to end austerity have yet to be realized. […]
International Womens Day 2021 – A learning opportunity for Women in UNISON SW
The ‘fantastic UNISON women’ fighting for fair pay in Glasgow offer an inspiring example for International Women’s Day
And the Greenham Common peace protesters of the 1980s or the care workers taking to the streets to demand equal pay in 2018. Every International Women’s Day, all of us […]
Analysis of a recent UNISON survey* of almost 47,000 female key workers including nurses, teaching assistants and council employees shows many feel on the brink of burn […]
“Then Italy invaded Ethiopia and there wasn't much of a ground swell of resistance to it, so she started a newspaper called the New Times and Ethiopia News.” Ethiopia was liberated […]
But it’s also a day to remember the battles won by women and the struggles still faced by women around the world. One of the most grievous examples of […]
Today is International Women’s Day and female voices from across UNISON in Wales have shared their thoughts in the importance of women to the union.
A “vision of a fair and equal society” is at the heart of the agency. Citing some of the programmes that the […]
