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Date

8 July 2021 2:00pm–3:30pm

UNISON network meeting for all Trans members.

Date

20 March 2021

Location

Online

March 20 2021 is UN Anti-Racism Day. This event will be marked with an online national rally with speakers representing the broad alliance of communities and organisations that make up the anti-racist movement. The growth of the Black Lives Matter movement has shone a fresh spotlight on the horrific levels of racism around the world. […]

Date

23 November 2020 12:00pm–1:30pm

Location

Online

The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a dramatic increase in the number of workers that have been working from home. Sometimes as a result of direct instructions from governments / […]

Graeme Ellis and Tansaim Hussain-Gul are co-chairs of UNISON’s national disabled members’ committee. Here, they look at how COVID-19 has disproved myths about home working being unproductive

Date

30 July 2020 6:00pm–7:00pm

Location

Online webinar

This webinar is for UNISON members who self-identify as trans, for members with trans backgrounds and members whose gender identity does not fit into the gender binary. Discussion topics will include reform of the Gender Recognition Act and Black Trans Lives Matter. This event will take place on GoToWebinar – Joining details will only be sent […]

Inequalities emerging through the pandemic are chilling evidence to support UNISON’s demands on workplace rights and decent public services.  We need them now

Show Racism the Red Card launches this year’s schools competition at UNISON Centre

What should be a celebration with colleagues can too often turn into an ordeal of innuendo, harassment and even assault

UNISON LGBT+ group joins Pride parade in London to celebrate, to show solidarity and to protest against continuing bigotry and intolerance

Introducing a motion for the national LGBT committee, Anu Prashar told delegates that, “when I came out, it seemed as though I only had two […]

Date

12 July 2019 12:30pm–3:00pm

Location

UNISON, UNISON Centre, 130 Euston Road, London NW1 2AY

Annual meeting for all UNISON bisexual members National network meeting for UNISON bisexual members. All bisexual members welcome: free event with lunch provided.  Travel costs met nationally. You don’t have to be out in your branch to attend. Meet other bisexual members, including the bi reps on the national LGBT committee. Find out what’s been […]

Date

26 June 2019 12:00pm–2:30pm

Location

UNISON, UNISON Centre, 130 Euston Road, London NW1 2AY

National meeting for all UNISON LGBT Disabled members National Disabled Members LGBT Caucus Network Days Free event with lunch provided.  Travel costs met nationally. Meet other LGBT disabled members, including your reps on the National Disabled Members Committee. These meetings have been arranged to allow space for members from under-represented groups within disabled members self […]

Women’s conference votes to take measures to ensure more low paid women can participate in the union

Date

14 October 2017 2:00am–2:00am

Hate is a workplace issue that UNISON is determined to address.  We can tackle hate crime by raising awareness, encouraging reporting, supporting our members and negotiating workplace policies which promote zero tolerance and provide support for staff affected.  National hate crime awareness week https://www.nationalhcaw.uk/ is the ideal time to raise this issue.  New UNISON guidance […]

Research by the Papworth Trust reveals that NHS claim swayed disabled voters ‘who didn’t know how many of their protections were form the EU’