We are holding three pension advice sessions at Derby Homes, London Road Depot. You will be able to find out the options available to you if you are considering retiring, and how to make the most of your pension that will benefit your own circumstances. We are providing these sessions in conjunction with Derby County Council and The Prudential.
These sessions will be held at
10.30am
1.30pm
3.30pm
in the Large Training Room.
For more information please contact Julie Walker below…
Reported by -Becky Everett – Derby City Branch Delegate
Over a women’s lifetime sanitary products cost more than £5000 with women spending around £13 every month. Many women face period poverty having to choose between feeding a family and sanitary products, particularly those ladies whose family rely on food banks.
Conference welcomed that:
Additional Information by the charity Rosa
A) Labour reduced VAT on sanitary products from 17.5% to 5%Zero VAT rating will be introduced in 2018
B) In August 2017 Tesco became the first UK supermarket to effectively remove VAT by cutting the price of many women’s sanitary products.
C) A members bill in the Scottish Parliaments brought by MSP Monica Lennon could see a system of universal free access to sanitary items for women and girls in low income households began in 2017.
D) Labour intends to end poverty if it gets into power by handing our free sanitary products in schools, food banks and homeless shelters.
Women’s conference 2018 asks the National women’s Committee to:
1) Continue to campaign to end all poverty affecting women and girls, especially period poverty.
2) To publicise the work of organisations supporting women facing period poverty.
3) To encourage branches and women’s groups to donate to charities collecting sanitary products for women facing period poverty.
4) Work with Labour Link to support campaigns in Scotland and the wider UK to period poverty.
At conference we heard that women. Women of today are going without sanitary products to feed children. Women are using cut up towels instead of sanitary products and having to wash and reuse them. Please don’t think that this isn’t happening, it will be affecting a woman near you!
This motion was carried.
Take a moment to watch the following videos and articles which highlight the issues of Period Poverty.
Over the past few months members have asked how our members can become a workplace steward, slow you can find out the roles of responsibilities that can give you an insight into what you would be carrying out.
If you would like to become a stewards and represent your workplace please don’t hesitate to contact us below and we can answer any questions you may have. we do provide training to give you the tools to become an effective steward and increase your knowledge and understanding.
Elected workplace stewards
Workplace stewards are the heart of our trade union. UNISON’s stewards are the reason we win campaigns that result in better lives for our members and all working people. Stewards help to organise your colleagues into an effective, strong and welcoming membership. They:
Are the first point of contact for members in a workplace
Talk to members about the union
Talk to staff about their issues
Offer advice on issues at work
Represent members in cases (including at disciplinary and grievance hearings).
Campaign for better working conditions
Recruit and organise new members
Encourage more members to get active in UNISON
Raise your members’ issues with the branch.
Stewards in workplaces where UNISON is recognised by the employer have rights to time off for training and to carry out their work.
Stewards have a right to be involved in how their branch is run and are the most important link between the members and the union.
UNISON aims to have at least one steward in each workplace and department, more in larger departments and where members work shifts.
Stewards are elected each year by the group of members that they represent and the post is open to job share.
