Women’s Conference, Bournemouth, 14th – 16th February 2019 Julie Beasley – A Visitor’s Perspective As last year, this was an interesting and lively conference, covering a wide range of topics too numerous to mention in a short report. What follows here are some highlights for me, and possibly some ideas or campaigns for branch committee to highlight to members. Conference…
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Voluntary Severance
As a trade union, assisting people to leave their jobs is not, ideally, what we’d be doing, but we aim to provide help and assistance to all our members, whatever the circumstances. If you are going through the process, here is a rough guide to it and what we can do to help you. If you’ve indicated that you…
Higher Education Conference 2019
UNISON’s annual conference of higher education branches and members took place in Nottingham in January. Our branch was represented by Dan Simmonds and Sian Williams as delegates, with Alan Dilley there as a visitor and Sarah Pickett and Ivan Bonsell attending as regional reps. The conference is the decision making body for the union, as far as Higher Education is…
Higher Education Conference 2019
Our branch sent delegates and visitors to this year’s higher education conference in Nottingham last week. You can read UNISON’s official version of what was discussed on the national website here: Conference sets ambitious pay policy for 2019 and here ‘You do fabulous work; you deserve decent pay’ but for a more complete and honest assessment of what was discussed,…
January 2019 newsletter
Hi all, a belated Happy New Year to all our members, and if you’re reading this and you’re not a member then please have a long hard think about joining. Our first newsletter of 2019 has been available for a while, but if you’ve not seen it yet you can find it by following the newsletter link (top-right menu.)
UNISON GUIDE ON RESPONDING TO THE CONSULTATION ON REFORM OF THE GENDER RECOGNITION ACT
UNISON GUIDE ON RESPONDING TO THE CONSULTATION ON REFORM OF THE GENDER RECOGNITION ACT Introduction The Gender Recognition Act 2004 (GRA) governs how trans people can have their identity legally recognised. This was groundbreaking in its time, but it is now seriously out of date and needs reform. The Government is holding a public consultation on reform of the…
Brighton Legal Walk
The law team from the Brighton Business School has again taken part in the Brighton Legal Walk, which raises money for vital local legal advice charities. Access to legal advice has been savaged over recent years, while need just keeps on rising. Beneficiaries of the walk include Brighton Housing Trust, which has helped protect thousands of households from homelessness over the…
Disappointing result for carers
Some of you may be aware that for the past 2 years the Disability and Carers staff network group have put in a great deal of work towards creating a policy to help support staff with caring responsibilities. The policy put forward by the network group was put together after consultation with the university Equality and Diversity department and staff in…
Work-related stress? Come along to our lunchtime meeting this week
We’re pleased to announce that we have arranged for Bob Woods, from Workstress, the national work -stress network, to speak to UNISON members. Bob will talk about how and why people feel stressed and what we as trade-unionists can do about it. He’ll be here on Thursday 19th April, Room 117, Mithras House from 12pm to 2pm. All UNISON members are…
Inspirational Leadership?
Many people will be aware that the Vice Chancellor has been shortlisted for the Guardian’s Higher Education Inspiring Leader Award, due to be announced on 24th April. Whilst we recognise that there has been change and a new direction of leadership since Debra’s arrival a few years ago, we think you’d struggle to find many workers or students at the University…