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UNISON National Delegate Conference 2023 – Afternoon Session – Day 2

We return to the conference with Composite D – Industrial Action Ballots – there was an in-depth and lenghty debate with those speaking for and against this Composite Motion – following a request for the question to be put to move business along this motion was voted on and lost.

You can read the composite motion in the document below…

The rest of the motions can be read in the following document…

Motion 79 – Taking Effective Action within the Straitjacket of Anti-Laws – this motion was carried

Motion 8 – Harassment – Its Not Part of the Job – this motion was carried as amended 8.1

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Motion 57 – Make 2024 the Year of the LGBT+ – this motion was carried

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As part of Pride Month please see below key points in history for you to read…

This concludes this afternoons session and we will return for more interesting speeches, rule amendment debates and motions.

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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.

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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.