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Equalities News

Moray International Women’s Day event – CANCELLED

February 4, 2021 Editor

Unfortunately this event has had to be CANCELLED. Hopefull Christina will speak at another event in the near furture. Aberdeenshire

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Standing together for women’s equality

March 11, 2020 Editor

Branch delegates to the Aberdeen Trades Union Council, Kate Ramsden, Morag Lawrence and Steve Gray all attended a very successful

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Cornerstone LCAST Survey 2019 Updated

October 11, 2019 Editor

Updated 9 October: See on the graphic for a copy of our LCAST Survey results for the three years 2017,

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UNISON response to Cornerstone’s ACAS statement

March 28, 2019 Editor

Dear Members, Please find below an email to ACAS detailing UNISON’s response to Cornerstone’s Position Statement to them. This email

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Cornerstone: Pay, recognition update from stewards

March 27, 2019 Editor

Dear Member As you may be aware the Cornerstone Stewards Committee met today to discuss re-establishing recognition with Cornerstone and

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UNISON Applies for Statutory Recognition in Cornerstone

March 6, 2019 Editor

Dear Member Please see our graphic for details. Thank you so much to all of our members who have stood

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UNISON members vote to accept pay offer for council workers

February 1, 2019 Editor

UNISON today informed COSLA that our members have overwhelmingly voted to accept the pay offer for local government workers. The

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Cornerstone – Inducement Newsletter – IMPORTANT ACTIONS!

January 18, 2019 Editor

Cornerstone – Inducement Newsletter Dear Members IMPORTANT ACTIONS! UNISON has today posted a newsletter, UNISON caseform, and 2 union busting

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UNISON response to Cornerstone chief executive’s email

October 17, 2018 Editor

As promised last week, we have now prepared a full response to chief executive Edel Harris’s email. For ease of

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Pay protection clarity needed for team leaders & service managers

October 4, 2018 Editor

As you will remember, Cornerstone’s original vision of LCAST teams was that Team Leaders and Service Managers would have the

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  • Women’s History Month

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  • International Women’s Day

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    08/03/2020

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    Kathleen, Morag and Ann at Woodhill House

    The branch recognised International Women’s Day this year with a series of visits to workplaces in South Aberdeenshire as well as holding a stall in Woodhill House.

    International Women’s Day is 8th March every year. However the branch celebrated it on the 6th and 9th March.

    Branch equalities officer, Kathleen Kennedy said, “International Women’s Day began in 1913 – it aims to work worldwide to eliminate discrimination against women.

    “UNISON’s membership is three quarters women hence we thought it was only right to celebrate.”

    Kathleen, along with Morag Lawrence Pension Champion chose to go to an area which they hadn’t really visited before – Banchory/Aboyne. Unfortunately, local steward, Jackie Roy wasn’t able to go along on the day.

    Kathleen and Morag visited Banchory Social Work office, where the staff were really welcoming and appreciative that they had made the effort to come out and invited them back. Unfortunately plans to return to Banchory area around the end of March have had to be postponed due to the Cornavirus pandemic. However, it is still on the agenda

    Aboyne Academy were also very welcoming. They had organised for Morag and Kathleen coming, with a room set aside and some members were already looking for them when they arrived.

    Kathleen, Morag Lawrence and Ann McEvoy (UNISON Local Organiser) also held a stall in Woodhill House where Kathleen had been based for 25 years and where all three had worked at some point up until recently.

    Kathleen explained, “The idea behind the stall was to celebrate International Women’s Day and give out cup cakes to members and freebies and answer any queries. Also to try and encourage non members to join the union and receive any freebies as well.”

    She added, “We had also hoped from there to start conversations on how we can both support our women members and help them support each other as this could over time develop into a ‘self organised group’.”

    Kathleen went on, “Although this time we were visiting to celebrate International Women’s Day we are keen to visit all locations where we have members to meet and get to know our members and hear their issues if they have any, as well as recruiting more members.”

    If you would like a visit once the lockdown is over, or have any equalities issues or queries, please let Kathleen know at kathleenunison@gmail.com.

    Kathleen added, “We are all too aware how wide the Aberdeenshire and North East Voluntary Sector is so although our stewards would like to visit all establishments regularly, we aren’t physical able.

    “If one thing that is good come out of the Cornavirus panademic it is a lot of us have used more technology so if we can’t get always get you physically we maybe can virtually!

    “We really do want to hear from you. Maybe you have an idea that would be good for  the Branch or a campaign. We will look into everything and no matter where you are in the Branch you are important and we are all equal.”

     

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