Black members

Recent documents

No entry for the BNP

Campaign leaflet: stock number 2662
Link to a PDF document on this siteNo entry for the BNP

The BNP can seriously damage your public services

Campaign leaflet: stock number 2663
Link to a PDF document on this siteThe BNP can seriously damage your public services

BNP out

Campaign poster: No entry for the BNP
Link to a PDF document on this siteBNP out

For information on bargaining for equality:
* Equalities zone
  • Play a key role in winning equality in the workplace
  • Actively challenge racism wherever it is found
  • Are at the forefront of UNISON's organising work
  • Enjoy UNISON's support at local, regional and national level

As black members in UNISON we work together to win positive change in the workplace. The more of us that are actively involved the stronger we become. The stronger we are the more positive change we can achieve.

What we are doing now

2008 National Black Members' Conference Record of Decisions

Record of decisions from the 2008 National Black Members' Conference held on 11 - 13 January in Glasgow.
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National Black Members' Committee Anual Report 2007/08

(21/12/07) UNISON National Black Memvers' Committee Annual Report 2007/08
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Latin America 2007 Conference

(16/11/07) SERTUC in partnership with Cuba Solidarity Campaign and Venezuela Information Centre is organising the Latin America 2007 Conference

Women and the Fight Against Slavery in the Caribbean

(16/11/07) Haringey council is organising an evening lecture and discussion to commemorate the Bicentenary of the British Parliamentary Act to Abolish the Transatlantic Slave Trade on Tuesday, 27 November

Ethnic minority representation at work

(8/11/07) Introducing a new 3-year research project from the Working Lives Research Institute.

Black Action: October 2007

Inside this issue: Black History Month; Notting Hill Carnival 2007; Rule Changes Unfair to Migrant Carers; Service Delivery and Membership Care; Get ACtive - Stop the BNP and much more. :
Link to a PDF document on this siteB5860.pdf

Operation Black Vote - Do you want to become a magistrate?

(14/09/07) Operation Black Vote in partnership with the Ministry of Justice is pleased to relaunch the award-winning Magistrates Shadowing Scheme.

Nelson Mandela Statue Unveiled in Parliament Square

(31/08/07) On Wednesday 29 August, Nelson Mandela and his wife Graca Machel saw a nine foot (2.74m) bronze statue of himself unveiled in Parliament Square, in honour of his struggle and that of many others against apartheid.

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CONTACT DETAILS
• For urgent help and advice at work to go Help at Work.
• Your regional black members contact can put you in touch with other black members and activists.
• UNISON's national race equalities officer is Pav Akhtar.
UNISON Black members
1 Mabledon Place
London WC1H 9AJ
Email: blackmembers@unison.co.uk
National news

Stop the BNP sowing its seeds of hate

(07/04/08) Vote to keep the British National Party out, says UNISON

No place for racists

(20/03/08) UNISON is taking action to keep the BNP out of England and Wales

Southern African unions discuss AIDS

(11/02/08) UNISON hosts delegation discussing public-sector response to heath crisis

Lest we forget

(14/01/08) UNISON’s black members debate lasting legacy of slave trade
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