- Conference
- 2007 National Black Members' Conference
- Date
- 20 September 2006
- Decision
- Carried
The motion titled “PROGRESS OF BLACK MEMBERS’ ISSUES IN UNISON”
Submitted by the National Black Members’ Conference held January 2006 to UNISON National Delegate Conference 20 – 23 June 2006 was not reached at National Delegate Conference June 2006.
Birmingham Branch Black Members Self Organised Group calls on the National Black Members Conference 2007 to resubmit the same motion (set out below) to the UNISON National Delegate Conference 2007.
“PROGRESS OF BLACK MEMBERS’ ISSUES IN UNISON
Black members remain increasingly concerned that certain repeat issues brought to National Black Members’ Conference for the National Black Members’ Committee (NBMC) and National Executive Council to action on our behalf remain unactioned. Members need only look at the range of repeat motions brought to Black Members’ Conference to see that Black members do not feel that certain issues are being addressed.
Conference therefore calls upon the National Executive Council to:
1)Work with the NBMC to compile an audit of motions carried and outcomes achieved for all previous National Black Members’ and National Delegate Conferences to 2005, focusing on the following areas:
a)employment rights;
b)representation services/legal advice;
c)racism in UNISON;
d)paid Black officers;
e)fair representation and proportionality;
f)NCAF/National Complainant Aid Campaign
2)Work with the NBMC to prepare a report with action priorities to address outstanding motion resolution actions in order to respond to concerns that certain Black members’ issues are not being taken seriously in UNISON.”