Scotland at UNISON Women’s Conference 2020

UNISON Women's ConferenceConference reports from Women’s Conference 13-15 February 2020 in Bournemouth, from a Scotland perspective and where Scotland delegates are particularly involved, will be posted here. For other reports see the UK pages.

Scotland at Women's Conference

Empowering and inspiring women – UNISON Women’s Conference

#uwomen20 Kate Ramsden gives an overview of Women’s Conference 2020 and also hears from two first time Scottish delegates, Alice ...
Ann Forsyth

Inspiring women inspiring women

#uwomen20 Women’s conference unanimously backed a call from Scotland to take a lead in telling women’s stories in order to ...
Standing Orders Committee photo

Keeping conference right – the role of the National Women’s Standing Orders Committee

Scotland’s representative on the National Women’s Standing Orders Committee (SOC) Dianne O’Donnell, shares her experience in this busy role. This ...
Lyn Marie O’Hara and Kay McKerrell

Gender pay gap about opportunity as much as pay

#uwomen20 In the 50th anniversary year of the Equal Pay Act, delegates to UNISON’s Women’s Conference slammed the continuing pay gap ...
Elizabeth Rankin

Raising awareness of symptoms of heart attacks in women

With the shocking news from British Heart Foundation research that 50% of women are more likely to receive the wrong ...
Alice

Raising awareness of the devastating impact of domestic abuse

#uwomen2020 In a moving debate, conference heard many harrowing, personal experiences of surviving domestic abuse, as delegates pledged to raise ...
Kath Stirling and Lyn Marie O’Hara

Winning equal pay – building members’ confidence

The stirring chords of “Bread and Roses” opened the #Uwomen2020 Fringe Meeting on Equal Pay as our Scottish UNISON colleagues ...
Josie Bird

President: ‘Our power comes from our activists’

UNISON President Josie Bird addressed #uwomen20 She highlighted the importance of recruiting workers in temporary and insecure posts “who arguably ...
Christina McAnea

McAnea: ‘I see strong brave fierce women who won’t give up the fight’

#uwomen20 Assistant general secretary (bargaining) Christina McAnea, addressed conference and said that she was so proud to be in a ...
Dave Prentis

Women are at the heart of this union

#Uwomen20 General Secretary Dave Prentis told UNISON Women’s Conference that women are at the heart of this union. He praised ...
Pat Rowland

Workplace support for mothers with sick or premature babies

In an emotional grouped debate, Women’s conference #Uwomen20 heard of the trauma faced by women who have experienced miscarriage or ...
Kate Ramsden

Women at the heart of social care

#Uwomen20 UNISON Women’s Conference condemned the underfunding, over many years, of social care. Delegates backed a range of measures to ...
Katrina Murray

Scrap universal credit and end women living on the cliff edge

In the first debate of Women’s Conference 2020, speaker after speaker condemned changes to the benefits system and its devastating ...
Angela Rayner

Angela Rayner ‘rebel with a cause’

#uwomen20 Angela Rayner, gave an inspiring speech to UNISON Women’s Conference. She told delegates that she would not have got ...