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Cutting the relative value of the state pension is a false economy and likely to increase welfare support

With more than a million women members, UNISON is always loud and proud for women’s rights at work. Here are just a couple of our recent wins

Working parents – particularly mothers – are in an impossible situation this lockdown. UNISON is calling for paid parental leave to support them

The results from UNISON’s annual equalities survey are in, and after 8,825 responses including from Black, disabled, women and LGBT+ members, one of the most contentious topics is working from home

Commenting on Labour’s proposals to improve the workplace for women, UNISON assistant general secretary Christina McAnea said today (Thursday): “Balancing work with caring for children or elderly parents and running a home can be a struggle for many women. “Good employers know that paying women fairly, offering them generous maternity leave and pay packages, along with flexible […]

Equal pay victory ‘would be an inspiration to millions of other women fighting for better pay’.

Around 8,000 school staff, nursery workers, care workers, caterers and cleaners – the majority of them UNISON members – will walk out on 23 and 24 October in the largest equal pay strike since the Equal Pay Act was passed

Suffragettes will lead Scottish demonstration in continuing struggle over grading system and equal pay

UNISON’s women’s conference voted against the UK government’s decision to limit child tax credit to the first two children, and the so called ‘rape clause’

Last year nearly 5,000 UNISON members took part in our equality survey. Take part this year and you might win a holiday.

Women’s conference shows full support for WASPI campaign for pension equality

Employers, unions and other stakeholders sign memorandum of understanding

Donate now to the UNISON-supported fundraising campaign to support West African activists working to end FGM and child marriage: donate by 18 July and your gift will be doubled

Union members join WASPI lobby of Parliament over pension age increases

Head of local government will ask women across the union to contribute ideas on what should be discussed