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If Windrush had never docked, we wouldn’t be celebrating 75 years of our treasured NHS this year, because many of that generation went to work in the health service

About the Ethnicity Pay Gap Campaign The Ethnicity Pay Gap (EPG) cost Black workers over £3.2 billion in lost wages in 2018 (Resolution Foundation). This gap is getting wider. The Ethnicity Pay varies across regions and sectors. In London the gap is over 23.8 per cent.  The impact of this loss of pay pushes Black […]

Challenging Racism in the Workplace is vital to UNISON’s work, whether it involves bargaining and negotiating for members; growing our membership; challenging pay freezes, reorganisations and redundancies or organising our member around campaigns that matter most to them. UNISON’s Black members have many of the same concerns as any other member regarding access to employment, […]

UNISON continues to play a leading role in highlighting the discrimination faced by Black workers and we support action to hold employers and the government to account in addressing institutional […]

In 2015, the National Black Members’ Conference established the Nelson Mandela Award, to be presented each year to a member who has ‘gone above and beyond’ for Black people – within the union and in the wider society. Amongst our Black membership we recognise that there is an abundance of talent and that many people […]

The Lawrence Review endorses UNISON’s view that decades of discrimination have left Black communities over-exposed and under-protected from COVID-19

The stakes are too high for employers to get this wrong

As the first week of Ramadan fasting comes to a close, UNISON has been working across regions to ensure Muslims members are supported during this important month

Gordon McKay uses speech to damn a government working to ‘undermine and punish working people’

Speaking at UNISON’s annual Black Members Conference today (Friday) in Llandudno, general secretary Dave Prentis said: “Last the NHS celebrated its 70th anniversary, yet the descendants of those that came from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean to help build it are still facing barriers.

UNISON marks the 25-year fight against racism in football

That was the rallying call to delegates at UNISON’s Black members’ conference from president Margaret McKee, speaking in […]

We used the results to brief our service groups and self-organised groups on key equality issues for their bargaining and organising […]

And she cited the current case of Haringey care workers and the 2015 case of Camden traffic wardens as examples. Rena Wood for the service group […]

Nominations are open now for UNISON’s Nelson Mandela Award 2018