USDAW – Supporting Parents and Carers Spotlight Day

Each year we hold a campaign day called Supporting Parents and Carers Spotlight Day. It’s an important opportunity for the Union to highlight the concerns of members who are caring for someone or bringing up children, raise awareness of workplace rights and campaign for change.

This year, on Wednesday 28 June, Usdaw is organising a campaign day focusing on the problems low-paid working parents have finding affordable and flexible childcare. The campaign day this year has the theme ‘Overstretched’ that reflects both the pressures working parents in Usdaw are under and the fact that the UK’s childcare system is in crisis.

Every year hundreds of reps get involved on Spotlight Day. If you would like to support Spotlight Day this year, you can do as much or as little as you like. You could set up a campaign stand in the canteen, a staff area or on the shop floor. Usdaw will send you everything you need to help you have a successful campaign.

You could:

• Give out leaflets to members explaining how Usdaw can help them.
• Put a poster on your workplace noticeboard.
• Talk to members about the Union’s campaign.
• Ask members to take the survey.

To find out more about the campaign visit www.usdaw.org.uk/spc. If you’re new to campaigning read our briefing and if you’d like to order materials you can do this online.