Get Me Home Safely
No one should leave work in fear
The Get Me Home Safely campaign started out protecting hospitality workers. It’s now a global campaign, supporting Unite members in every sector of the economy, from civil aviation to logistics and passenger transport.
If you work unsocial hours and worry about your journey home, please join us.
Our goal is simple: we want everyone working together to keep workers, especially women, safe on their commute to and from work. That means safer and more reliable transport, paid or subsidised transport home after late shifts, free and safer car parks.
Different workplaces need different solutions.
Employers, councils, government, transport operators, all have a role to play.
It’s unfortune, but everyone that I know that works in hospitality has some kind of horror story.
Molly Unite activist and hospitality worker
What can you do?
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Raise awareness
Talk to your mates. Put up a poster and use the campaign resources to get the message out. See below.
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Launch a campaign in your workplace
Talk to your Unite branch, reps and colleagues. Scroll down to download the campaign guidance and the campaign resources. Get in touch for top tips on how to run an effective campaign.
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Contact us
Email: getmehomesafely@unitetheunion.org. We'll send you a toolkit, link you up with activists and guide you through negotiating safe transport home policies with your employer.
Take the survey
Campaign resources
Download the campaign resources. To order a supply for your workplace, please email: getmehomesafely@unitetheunion.org
Support our 6 demands
Together, we can make change happen
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Safe and free transport home
We want councils to make free transport home a licensing condition for hospitality venues applying for premises licenses for alcohol, entertainment and late-night refreshment. This amendment promotes the fundamental licensing objectives set out in the Licensing Act 2023. The government can also change the law to make this a condition.
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Extend employers’ duty of care to the daily commute
Every worker has a right to get home safely from work. We want employers to embed safe transport home policies for all staff and to carry out risk assessments of their journey’s to and from work, considering hazards and take steps to mitigate those risks. And where possible, to pay for taxis home for workers working past 11pm.
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Better buses and public transport – safe, reliable, more frequent
The decline in bus services outside London is shocking. Almost a fifth of rural bus routes have disappeared in the past five years. We need municipal ownership of our buses to tackle the chronic shortage of night and off-peak services and to improve services overall.
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Zero tolerance to sexual harassment and gender-based violence on public transport
We support calls for bus and transport operators to introduce mandatory training on gender-based violence to equip workers with practical guidance on how to prevent and report sexual harassment and assault on public transport. We also want stronger laws and tougher action to tackle sexual harassment and sexual assault on public transport, including working CCTV.
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National minimum standards for taxi and private hire
An end cross border hiring to improve safety for women using private hire vehicles and taxis.
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Tax legislation updated
No one should be penalised for doing the decent thing and providing regular taxis home