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The importance of championing women workers across the union movement

Community — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:37:06 +0000

In a guest blog, Chair of the Community Third Sector Committee, Chelsie Riley discusses the importance of women in leadership roles across the trade union movement. People often ask me why I’m a Union Rep, on top of all my other commitments: my volunteering as a Leader with the Girl Guides, my job as a Social Impact Consultant at Business in the Community, living my life, and managing my health…

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IWD 2025: Time to Accelerate Action

Jennifer Dean — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 11:06:42 +0000

Over recent years, legislation has been passed or amended to ensure that women have fully recognised rights in the workplace and life in general. This is now firmly fixed in statute. The time has come for positive steps to be taken to act on that legislation. It is no longer enough to talk about rights for women. What are needed now are the Actions which will show that these rights are not just…

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Engaging with management around the menopause

Jacqueline Thomas — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 22:27:49 +0000

How do we ensure that management adhere to and take into consideration how they treat their employees who suffer from menopausal symptoms? Simple – we educate and engage with management and employers to ensure fairness is delivered for anyone suffering the long-term effects of the menopause. While representing a member in my branch who had been unwell on several occasions, she was diagnosed with…

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Women united on International Women’s Day!

Jennifer Dean — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 08:00:50 +0000

Women are at their very best when they come together, united in a common cause. Women with a cause are fierce, unstoppable and unapologetic. And they get the job done! Women in trade unions make a real difference in our workplaces, and out in our communities, standing up against injustice and fighting for the rights and freedom of women everywhere. When women from trade unions around the UK…

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Janet Sarsfield is awarded the Equality & Diversity Award

Janet Sarsfield — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 08:13:11 +0000

Being a Community Representative is close to my heart – I’ve always loved helping people and hate injustice, bullying and a lack of knowledge in my workplace. Unfortunately, a lot of people aren’t aware of their legal rights at work, and I see it as my responsibility to ensure that they aren’t taken advantage of. Whether that is sharing good working practices, representing my colleagues…

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Take action to save legislation tackling sexual harassment

Jennifer Dean — Tue, 02 May 2023 10:41:35 +0000

Community has been campaigning for reforms to vital sexual harassment law for many years, and in 2021, the Government promised to introduce a preventative duty and reintroduce third party liability in response to a consultation from the Government Equalities Office. Community was delighted when The Worker Protection Bill introduced by Wera Hobhouse, and supported by our campaigning work…

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Community calls on Equalities Minister to protect pay gaps reporting

Community — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 16:13:43 +0000

Community has written to the Minister for Women and Equalities, the Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MP, calling on her to reverse Liz Truss’s decision to water down regulations on gender pay gap reporting. On the 4th October, then Prime Minister Liz Truss MP stated that her government would exempt organisations with fewer than 500 employees from gender pay gap reporting. Under current legislation…

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World Menopause Day

Maya Ilany — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 16:01:33 +0000

Today is World Menopause Day. In Community, we believe that menopause is not a niche issue or a personal issue – it’s a trade union issue. That’s why yesterday, dozens of our members from across workplaces and industries joined a training session delivered by the brilliant team of Henpicked. We look forward to support those who attended the session in organising their colleagues to secure…

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Community welcomes new menopause and the workplace report

Community — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 08:47:46 +0000

Community welcomes the new menopause and the workplace report published 28th July. Community has been making the case for years that menopause is not a women’s issue, but a workplace issue, and we are pleased to see the Women and Equalities Committee taking the same position in its report. The committee’s report, which Community supported, rightly recognises that due to lack of support and…

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The menopause revolution #StandingTogether22

Tracy Barlow — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 15:33:39 +0000

As delivered to Community’s Biennial Delegate Conference in Belfast on June 1st 2022. Conference, Tracy Barlow, speaking on the NEC’s support for Composite motion F on the menopause revolution. Conference, women experiencing the menopause are amongst the fastest growing cohort in the workplace. There are currently 3.5 million women going through the menopause in the U.K. workforce.

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