1. Explore and promote ways to maximise the participation of young members and low paid workers at conference, within our LGBT structures and ultimately our wider union; 2. Investigate the barriers some members face to attending conference and produce guidance on potential solutions; 3. Seek to improve ways of communicating with members from hard to reach and underrepresented groups; 4. Seek new ways to encourage branches to include more young and low paid members in their delegations. West region LGBT group National LGBT committee position: SUPPORT 12.* IMPROVING FAIR REPRESENTATION AND PROPORTIONALITY AT LGBT CONFERENCE Conference affirms the benefits of attending this lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) conference, including opportunities to discuss current issues, shape the direction of UNISON’s LGBT work, learn more about UNISON and be for the coming year of activism. Conference that UNISON has rules on proportionality and fair representation in UNISON structures. Proportionality is defined as the representation of women and men in fair proportion to the number of female and male members comprising the electorate. Fair representation is the broad balance of representation of members of the electorate taking into account such factors as age and low pay, the balance between full-time and part time workers, manual and non-manual workers, different occupations, skills, race, sexual orientation, disability and gender identity. Conference acknowledges work over many years to improve fair representation and proportionality at LGBT conference. This includes structural steps such as the scheme of branch representation, which requires branch delegations of: 1. More than one delegate to base the delegation on the gender make-up of the branch; 2. More than three delegates to include a low paid woman; 3. More than four delegates to include a young member. It also requires branches to seek to include Black, disabled, part-time and manual LGBT members in delegations.
1. Explore and promote ways to maximise the participation of young members and low paid workers at conference, within our LGBT structures and ultimately our wider union; 2. Investigate the barriers some members face to attending conference and produce guidance on potential solutions; 3. Seek to improve ways of communicating with members from hard to reach and underrepresented groups; 4. Seek new ways to encourage branches to include more young and low paid members in their delegations. West region LGBT group National LGBT committee position: SUPPORT 12.* IMPROVING FAIR REPRESENTATION AND PROPORTIONALITY AT LGBT CONFERENCE Conference affirms the benefits of attending this lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) conference, including opportunities to discuss current issues, shape the direction of UNISON’s LGBT work, learn more about UNISON and be for the coming year of activism. Conference that UNISON has rules on proportionality and fair representation in UNISON structures. Proportionality is defined as the representation of women and men in fair proportion to the number of female and male members comprising the electorate. Fair representation is the broad balance of representation of members of the electorate taking into account such factors as age and low pay, the balance between full-time and part time workers, manual and non-manual workers, different occupations, skills, race, sexual orientation, disability and gender identity. Conference acknowledges work over many years to improve fair representation and proportionality at LGBT conference. This includes structural steps such as the scheme of branch representation, which requires branch delegations of: 1. More than one delegate to base the delegation on the gender make-up of the branch; 2. More than three delegates to include a low paid woman; 3. More than four delegates to include a young member. It also requires branches to seek to include Black, disabled, part-time and manual LGBT members in delegations.