Health and safety – Community Trade Union

Having a conversation about union recognition with your employer

Jack Wholey — Fri, 16 May 2025 13:19:02 +0000

Talking about anything union with your employer can be a daunting prospect, especially when it comes to recognition — but it doesn’t have to be. As a modern trade union, Community embraces working with GOOD employers, and we welcome any and all employers to speak with us and our members about the benefits of recognition. In fact, union recognition is quite common across every sector of the UK…

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What is union recognition and why is it important?

Jack Wholey — Wed, 07 May 2025 12:08:01 +0000

While Community achieves wins for our members in various ways, through individual support, policy changes and campaigns, one thing is vital in helping us win for our members – union recognition. Through recognition, we can achieve much more collectively for our members, and make a large impact in the workplaces we represent. In this blog, we’ll explore what union recognition actually is…

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World Mental Health Day – Dawn Walk

Community — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 14:01:44 +0000

Community official Paul Thomas will be taking part in a Dawn Walk in support of the Samaritans as part of World Mental Health Day – 10th October. Paul, who is a Regional Secretary in our AA Section and a Health and Safety, Equality and Union Learning Rep, said: Every ten seconds, Samaritans answer a call for help. The charity is here, day or night, for anyone who’s struggling to cope…

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Community and TREC set up Community Hub

Community — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 11:36:59 +0000

Community Union and The Race and Equality Centre (TREC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a working partnership. Both organisations will now work together to improve access to employment and further study opportunities, with a focus raising awareness of Health & Safety in the workplace and improved confidence in the practical use of English. TREC is an organisation based in…

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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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Community helps visually-impaired people in Glasgow

Community — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 09:00:36 +0000

Community Scotland is supporting a campaign to help visually-impaired people in Glasgow. The Listen campaign is raising awareness about how plans to encourage people in Glasgow to walk and cycle more have made parts of the city dangerous and inaccessible for visually-impaired people. The new street layout has seen the expansion of footpaths and cycle lanes, but changes to kerb design have made…

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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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Marking World Mental Health Day

Lisa Francis — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 15:02:42 +0000

Yesterday, as part of World Mental Health Day, we held an event streamed across all Tata Steel UK’s sites dedicated to those who are Tata’s Mental Health First Aiders. The event, organised in conjunction with Tata, showed the value we place in every person who has come forward for such an important role. We had guest speakers from our retirement branch, as well as some of our reps and regional…

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Delivering Mental Health First Aid training in Wales

Community — Mon, 23 May 2022 12:25:29 +0000

We need to work harder as a country to create a society in which everyone’s mental health can flourish and where everyone has security at work whatever difficulties they may face. Community has long been invested in supporting our reps, to make sure they have the knowledge and skills to support our members suffering with mental ill health and create better workplaces. Over the past three years…

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Our mental health open day

Lisa Francis — Sun, 22 May 2022 17:27:34 +0000

To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, a mental health open day was held at the Tata Port Talbot site. I was privileged to be part of the organising group for the event showing a joint partnership and investment in something that affects so many people and workers. The day had many local charities such as Age Cymru, Maggies, Mental Health Foundation present, talking about the services that they…

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