Black members equality

A bargaining leaflet for reps and branch officers explaining why it’s vital to close the ethnicity pay gap and outlining what branches can do to help make pay fairer.

A bargaining leaflet for reps and branch officers explaining why it’s vital to challenge racist bullying and harassment in the workplace and how branches can help create a more open and inclusive workplace that treats all with dignity and respect.

A bargaining leaflet for reps and branch officers explaining why it’s vital to challenge racism in redundancy procedures and how branches can help make the process fairer.

A bargaining leaflet for reps and branches focusing on challenging racism in recruitment and selection procedures and making the process fairer for Black workers.

A bargaining leaflet for reps and branch officers outlining why challenging racism is such a crucial part of branch activity, and how it can be tackled.

The race discrimination claims protocol is a simple tool for dealing with cases. Here are ten good reasons why it’s very important that it’s used to support Black members, and for consistency and transparency across the union.

Research shows that Black workers are much more likely to be subject to disciplinary procedures than their white colleagues, as well as facing more harsh penalties. This leaflet looks at how branches and reps can help make sure procedures are used more fairly.

TUC research continues to highlight how Black workers feel marginalised, denied promotions and development opportunities, or particularly face unfair criticism in the workplace. This leaflet looks at how branches and reps can help make sure managers’ use of performance management is fair and non-discriminatory.

Research continues to show that Black workers are more likely to be in severely insecure work than white workers, with Black women twice as likely to be on zero hours contracts than white men. This leaflet highlights key areas for negotiation for reps and branches to tackle this widespread problem disproportionately affecting Black members.

This toolkit helps branches and activists understand what the ethnicity pay gap is and what can be done to level up pay between Black and white employees. PDF download only.

Celebrating 2023 Year of Black Workers in pictures. A5 booklet.

Black Members annual report 2023-24

The Year of Black Workers Toolkit has been designed for activists to help generate ideas about campaigning and bargaining goals in UNISON’s Year of Black Workers and also sets out practical steps to turn ideas into action.

2023 Year of Black Workers. Establishing legacy to generate change. A4 leaflet.

Race Discrimination Protocol

Newsletter aimed at black UNISON members and prospective UNISON members. Covers workplace and cultural issues that particularly affect black people.

A leaflet outlining UNISON’s commitment to achieving equality in our workplaces, in our union and across society.

This guidance shows you how to tackle racism in the workplace through bargaining and negotiating; challenging pay freezes, reorganisations and redundancies and organising members around campaigns that matter most to them.

These handy small leaflets define what being Black means to UNISON.
Min order 20, max order 50.

An A4 guide for branches on how to deal with harassment and bullying at work. It includes a model ‘dignity at work’ policy.

Research report using survey results looking at the employment of Black workers in local government

Booklet for branch activists and members explaining UNISON’s policy on self organisation, including guidelines on branch and regional support and resources.

UNISON’s equalities agenda: how UNISON works to build equality into everything we do