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 […]
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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, […]
The public protests in the wake of George Floyd’s murder challenged corporations and institutions to address the glaring racial disparities in their organisation and in society
The Lawrence Review endorses UNISON’s view that decades of discrimination have left Black communities over-exposed and under-protected from COVID-19
“Mandatory, robust risk assessments need to be in place. They should be policed by the Health and Safety Executive and rogue employers named and shamed. “The stakes are too high for employers to get […]
But the COVID-19 pandemic means this Ramadan will look very different for UNISON’s Muslim members, especially key workers. Just over three per cent of the 1.4 million NHS […]
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.
Dean reportedly punched the abuser, with a policeman then telling the latter he’d got what he deserved. No action was taken against the player […]
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 […]
Conference hears that the post-Brexit world, where the ‘other’ is increasingly seen as a problem, is making the situation worse for Black workers
Nominations are open now for UNISON’s Nelson Mandela Award 2018
Figures show Black workers to be under-represented in higher education workforce
Employers, unions and other stakeholders sign memorandum of understanding