Mental health at work: end the silence, end the stigma! International Women's Day 2025
On this 8th of March, International Women's Day, we continue to advance with our campaign on ,occupational health and safety with a gender perspective.
Mental health is a fundamental right of all workers, yet stress, inequality, and harassment contribute to a growing mental health crisis at work that impacts women greatly.
Unions play a crucial role in defending women workers' well-being by:
- Demanding preventive measures and support in collective agreements.
- Training workers and supervisors to recognize and manage psychosocial risks
- Fighting the stigma associated with mental health disorders in the workplace
UNI’s Equal Opportunities Department is launching a new mental health at work practical guide for trade unions to start the discussion on what unions can do to support the mental well-being of women workers.
Join our campaign!
Women workers' well-being depends on a real commitment to mental health. Demanding safe and healthy workplaces is a union priority.
Mental health is a fundamental right that must be protected!
IWD2025 #womenOHS
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The 3 'M's on Occupational Health & Safety
International women´s day 2024
Biologically natural experiences such as menstruation, maternity and menopause (the three M’s) are taboo subjects in the world of work, and can limit the career development of working women, pregnant women, and anyone with a uterus.
On this International Women's Day 2024, we are publishing the first guide of a series aimed at elevating menstruation, maternity and menopause as occupational health and safety issues.
This first guide breaks the silence that often shrouds menstrual health at work and focuses on how trade unions can spearhead measures to support menstruating workers, including negotiating policies for menstrual leave, ensuring access to sanitary products, enhancing workplace facilities for privacy and fighting the stigma associated with menstruation.
Menstruation is a trade union issue too!
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International Women’s Day 2023
In June 2022, the 110th International Labour Conference recognized health and safety as one of the Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work; yet when we develop policies and measures to protect workers, we, many times, work on a one-size-fits-all solution, not considering that segregation, gender roles and our own biological differences can increase the vulnerability of women workers in certain types of work.
For International Women’s Day, we are launching our practical guide for delegates as a way of starting the conversation in our affiliated trade unions.
This 8th of March we want to make the invisible, visible. Share our material, posters and social media posts to start the conversation.
Let’s rise together for women, let’s rise together for health and safety at work!
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Supporting Women’s Health at Work
Internationa women’s day 2022
Women and men may be exposed to different physical and psychological risks at the workplace and for OHS policies to be effective, they have to be based on more accurate information about the relationship between health and gender roles. It is only by making visible these differences that we can create and improve prevention strategies to protect our workers so this 8th of March we want to focus on the importance of including a gender perspective in OHS.
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