Get more members involved at branch/constituency level.

Encourage regions to promote awareness/training for women in UNISON regarding breast cancer. Conference urges every single woman delegate to go back to their branch, or to their region, to ask that their branch, or region consider affiliation to the UKBCC, and to consider how to take breast cancer campaigning forward locally and regionally.

Campaign for all colleges to honour the national agreements on pay and conditions;

Campaign for greater UNISON representation on the Learning and Skills Councils both regionally and nationally and provide relevant training for activists to apply for position on the local Learning and Skills Councils.

Campaign which focuses on:
1) restoring the rights of already privatised members;

2) protecting the rights of those facing privatisation, particularly from Private Public Partnerships (PPPs) and Private Finance Initiative;

3) preventing further privatisation; and reversing privatisations that have already occurred, and;

4) challenging Government and the public sector to restore and protect the rights of the most disadvantaged groups and communities in our society whose access to services is adversely affected.

The campaign should be synchronised in partnership between the national centre, regions, branches and workplaces. It should include:

a) the allocation of resources to organise, raise awareness and secure the involvement of UNISON members;

b) the production of high quality research similar to the work already undertaken on PFI;

c) working together with the Affiliated Political Fund and the General Political Fund to expose the gap between the actions of the Labour Government and the wishes of the majority of Labour Party members and levy payers;

d) co-ordinated strategic negotiations with employers/government departments employing the most successful strategies arising from our anti-CCT/market testing campaigns;

e) high profile publicity campaigns involving our members and the general public;

f) the use of strategic legal action employing domestic and international equality and human rights tools;

g) the use of strategic and lawful industrial action focused defending jobs, pay and conditions of service and on challenging inequality and discrimination;

a) negotiate with employers to ensure that part-time workers receive all allowances and arrangements applicable to full-time contracts for hours worked over their contracted hours;

b) identify ways to ensure that all workers' sick and holiday pay and pension contributions and amount received reflect all hours worked;

c) use all available avenues to pursue a legal change to meet the above aspirations for all workers by the Government.

Conference therefore urges branches, working with regions, to:

a) give greater priority and more resources to improving local organisation and building an organising culture;

b) launch local campaigns to recruit more stewards, including from among those members traditionally under-represented as stewards such as women, part-time workers, black members and young members and encourage and ensure that action is taken to enable disabled members to play an active role as stewards;

c) review their ways of working to ensure that they enable and encourage these members to take up the role of stewards;

d) campaign with the National Executive Council for improved paid release arrangements from their employers; and

e) review the allocation of paid release to stewards as part of branch development and organisation plans.

Conference further urges branches to support and participate in organising our future campaign to build greater commitment to the organising agenda, encourage the sharing of good practice on organising and to develop a common approach to the organising challenge

Continue to support the National Union of Students in their campaign to defeat differential/tuition fees, stop the introduction of top up fees and to win back a decent grant.

Conference calls on Branches to:

i) Consult their black members' groups on an agenda for improving race equality in their workplaces or call meetings of black members to discuss the implications of the Act if a branch groups does not exist;
ii) Discuss the implications of the legislation with the wider membership, as the RRA is not just a black members' issue;
iii) Ensure that they have a copy of their public authority's race equality scheme and challenge their authority if they have not produced one;
iv) Ensure that proper consultation and union involvement takes place on any programme of action arising out of their authority's race equality scheme

We call on branches, regions and the National Executive Council to:

a) celebrate diversity by supporting multicultural carnivals and respect festivals;

b) challenge myths and prejudice about asylum seekers and migrants;

c) champion victims of discrimination in the workplace and beyond;

d) seek alliances with other unions, faith groups, community groups and good employers to stand firm against fascism.