Welsh Women in UNISON: April 2012

Welcome to Women in Unison - the blog for women to post their thoughts, feelings and experiences surrounding the cuts in public sector spending.

Women are being hit the hardest by the austerity measures being imposed by the UK Government, which is seeing the rollback of the welfare state. Women rely upon public services more than men and they also make up the majority of the workforce in the public sector, so it is clear that women will be disproportionately affected by decimation of public services.

Did you know...
Women make up 65% of the public sector workforce, so job cuts will hit women the hardest.

Women will pay for 72% of the changes in taxes, benefits and tax credits set out in the budget.

95% of women's organisation face funding cuts/funding crisis in the next year.

Cuts to carers allowance will disproportionately affect women: 58% of carers and 74% of current carers allowance clamaints are women.

73% of remaining positions in the public sector that are subject to a pay freeze are held by women.

What can you do?
Tell us your thoughts, feelings and experiences on this blog.
Talk to your friends, family, colleagues about these issues and how they affect you.
Write to your Welsh AM & MP.
Join UNISON.

For women, trade union membership is as relevant as ever. UNISON has almost one million women members - more than two thirds of our union. Regrettably, women have still not reached a position of workplace equality – women still earn a lot less than men and face sex discrimination and harassment at work. We also know that UNISON women members are under increasing pressure to juggle work and home commitments. Almost half of women work part-time and this is largely because so many have caring responsibilities outside of the workplace.

Gender equality is a fight worth fighting and UNISON will never give up.

Monday, 30 April 2012

Not only are women more likely to face job cuts or cuts to terms and conditions, we are the ones who will lose out from cuts to public services such as libraries, leisure centres, early years care, health care, and to top it all, we're generally the one's who take on the unpaid carer role, be it children, parents, grandparents
There is an alternative to spending cuts, so why aren't we taking these into account? http://falseeconomy.org.uk/

Want your voice heard? Interested in Equality for Women? Want to become involved in Women's Equality in Wales?
Join now! Visit: http://www.wenwales.org/

Thursday, 12 April 2012

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