Resources For Young Members – Oxfordshire County UNISON Branch

This is a useful document giving information on legislation that deals with equality with a particular slant on Employment Law areas. It contains guidance on negotiation and formulation of an Equality & Diversity Policy in your workplace.

Public Sector Equality Duty Factsheet – The general equality duty means that public sector employers must give “due regard” to the need to:

Stop unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation
Promote equality of opportunity between people who share a protected characteristic and those who do not.
Foster good relations between people who share a protected characteristic and those who do not.

Funding for our Future: a new learning grant scheme for UNISON South East low paid women members and activists 1 February, 2019
UNISON is a union of women, over 1 million of them working across the public and private sectors delivering quality public services. Our women members are in all professions, catering assistants, nurses, midday supervisors, librarians, cleaners, social workers and cooks amongst a wide variety of jobs. A large proportion of our women members are low […]
Surrey UNISON protest closure of children’s centres 23 January, 2019
On 22nd January Surrey UNISON, alongside parents, supporters, workers and campaigners will be lobbying Surrey County Council on their proposals to close 37 children’s centres across Surrey. There are currently 58 centres helping families with children aged 0-5 years. The council’s recent proposals state that children’s centres should give more help to the children that […]
ULR Emma Nand talks about making positive changes for her colleagues in the workplace 11 January, 2019
How long have you been a member of UNISON? I joined as soon as I started work, aged 17, so about 15 years ago. I first started my working career in the NHS as a nursery nurse at the Southampton General Hospital, and then four years ago I transferred my membership over when I […]