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UNISON activists Veronica Price-Job and Peter Daley look at how the COVID-19 pandemic has been affecting Black disabled workers

Date

18 August 2020 2:00pm–3:00pm

Location

Online event

We’d like to invite all new and recently elected Black Members Officers to a training and networking session designed to introduce you to your new role. The aims of these sessions are;  To find out more about what is involved in your new role To make individual action plans for the rest of 2020 dependent […]

Tell us about your experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic – and join the prize draw for shopping vouchers

Date

22 July 2020 2:30pm–3:30pm

Location

Online event

We will be discussing the Black Lives Matter movement, the Public Health England report, organising and campaigning for equality in the workplace and wider community. This online event is free to […]

UNISON are also asking for assurances that Cllr Halsall’s remarks do not represent Council policy, but merely his own […]

The uncomfortable conversation that needs to be had

June is Pride Month: a celebration that commemorates the 1969 Stonewall Riots, when members of New York’s LGBT+ community fought back against homophobic policing. This historically significant event sparked the international LGBT+ rights movement that has achieved so much over the last 50 years. Whilst large gatherings are not possible at present, Pride should still […]

Acting regional secretary Tim Roberts turns to the Black Lives Matter movement in his latest blog

Words and promises won’t cut it any longer

We have today joined all those condemning the murder by police of innocent George Floyd in Minnesota.

UNISON head of equality Gloria Mills looks at the union’s role. UNISON head of equality Gloria Mills provides some […]

The murder of George Floyd and the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black communities has focused attention on inequality and racism. UNISON head of equality Gloria Mills looks at the union’s role

Rosita Ellis, Chair of the regional Black members group, on why racism, discrimination and the marginalisation of minority groups will always be a trade union issue

Earlier reports from the Office for National Statistics and the Institute for Fiscal Studies had already highlighted the impact of […]

Gloria Mills, UNISON equalities national secretary, on why the report into the impact of COVID-19 on Black people is a “major disappointment”