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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.

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UNISON Local Government Service Group Conference 2023 – Afternoon Final Session – Day 2

We now return to conference and we hear a speech from Mehmet Bozgeyik, Co-President , The confederation of Public Employees’ Trade Unions (KESK), Turkey you can find out more about this Confederation below on their international Twitter account.

https://twitter.com/kesk_int?s=20

we now move on to the motion discussions of Social Care and the first is Motion 40 – Care Workers – this motion was carried

To view the motions you can read them in the below document…

We now discuss Motion 42 Council Provided Care – this motion was carried as amended 42.1

motion 43 – Caring for our Carers – this motion was carried

Motion 41 – Adult Social Care – this motion was carried

LGBT+ Bargaining Guide was raised at this point, you can find this here..

You can also find other bargaining guides here..

We now move onto the discussions of the motions around Recruitment and Organising, the first is Motion 38 – Improving Facility time for Local Government activists – This motion was carried

Motion 39 – Empowering our reps in the fight against outsourcing – this motion was carried – this motion was carried

Now the order of business has been completed we now move to the moving of motions that were previously prioritised but not moved yet.

Motion 24 – Building trans equality in local government – this motion was carried

please talk to you branch if you would like to take part in Trans Ally Training, you can also find this useful Trans Ally Guide…

Also mentioned is that today marks the Anniversary of shootings of the shootings in pulse Nightclub in Orlando.

Motion 27 – Fighting cuts to local services and protecting disabled workers jobs – this motion was carried

The 12 motions not moved at this conference will be passed back to the Local Government Service Group Executive to be moved and report its decisions in due course.

This concludes the Local Government Service Group Conference for this year, we hope you found these blog updates useful and we will return tomorrow with more updates from this years National Delegate Conference (NDC) 2023.