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UNISON National Delegate Conference 2023 – Morning Session – Day 2

We start with a welcome back from President Andrea Egan and she announced that £1600 has been raised from the NDC quiz social last night which will go to the There for You Charity,

A minutes silence was then observed for the six year’s anniversary of the Grenfell Tower Tragedy 

We start with the moving of Standing Orders Committee Report 3 – there were reference back requests made and these will be returned at a further update surrounding item 3 regarding emergency motion Transpennine Express: the operator of Last Resort should be the only operator and Columbia in crisis and also item 4. 

We now move onto the discussion of motions and we start with Composite A – Social Care Crisis – The Urgent Need for Reform and Investment – this Motion was carried 

You can read about the Composite Motions here..

you can also read about the rest of the motions here…

Motion 28 – A Vision for a National Care Service – this motion was carried as amended 28.1 

Motion 27 – Radical Change in Social Care in Wales Can Influence the Whole of the UK – this motion was carried as amended 27.1

During this point the Social care bill for Scotland was discussed you. An read this below and to find out how it affects the current services and changes

https://www.parliament.scot/bills-and-laws/bills/national-care-service-scotland-bill/overview

We now watch a short video documenting all of the action and activities branches have been involved in over the past year

We then receive a speech from Christina McAnea UNISON General Secretary, Christina went through issues Local Government Pay Ballot, Strike issues, action wins across the country and the real impact.

Christina drew attention to the following issues during her speech, UNISON National care service roadmap that has just been launched

The Year Of the Black Worker

Disability Employment Charter

NJC Pay Campaign

Christina receives a standing ovation following her speech.

This ends this morning session and will reconvene this afternoon, we hope you found this useful and our further updates.

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UNISON National Delegate Conference 2023 – Afternoon Session – Day 1

 We return to conference with the discussion of Motion 5 – Increasing participation of Lower paid Women in Our Union – this motion was carried

We Now hear a speech from Professor Lynn Sudbury-Riley, Covid Bereaved Families for Justice

You can read more about Professor Lynn Sudbury-Riley below.

following this speech we now move to Motion 13 – A Health and Safety response to a National Crisis of stress and its effects on Public Service Workers, here we can see Becky Everett move the motion

This motion was carried

We now move to Motion 22 – Tackling Health Inequalities and Closing the Life Expectancy Gap – was discussed and carried as ammended 22.1.

Motion 1 Organising to win – Building Workplace Power Through Participation – this motion was carried as amended 1.1.

Motion 4 – Equality is UNISON Business – was carried as amended 4.2.

during this motion reference was made to the Year of the Black Worker 2023, you can find more information below.

We now move to Motion 17 – Defend the Tight to Strike – This was carried as amended

This concludes the business of the first day of National Delegate Conference 2023 we hope you find our updates useful. Please look out for tomorrows updates.

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UNISON National Delegate Conference 2023 – Morning Session – Day 1

Andrea Eagan passed our thoughts to all service personnel and all those affected in Nottingham following the incident in the city centre.

Andrea also gave her report to conference and welcomed all those attending and also all of the special guests.

We then moved to a moment of reflection to remember all those union activists who have sadly passed away over the past year.

we now have the moving of the Standing orders report 1 & 2 which set out the order of business for this years National Delegate Conference these were both carried. there were some issues raised and referenced back which will be reported back in the next report.

This years Annual report is now moved by the NEC (National Executive Council) this was carried, you can read the report below.

We now receive the financial report from the National Finance Committee – this was carried, you can read the report below

Following this we now move to the Presidents Speech from Andrea Egan.

Endeavour are a registered charity offering a wide range of services including front line community based support, group work and counselling for those affected by domestic abuse.

Endeavour is the presidential charity and If you would like to find out more pleas click on the link below…

We then move to the first motion for discussion, Motion 5 – Increasing participation of Lowerpaid Women in Our Union – this motion discussion will be continue to be discussed in this afternoons order of business.