- Conference
- 2011 National Black Members' Conference
- Date
- 9 August 2010
- Decision
- Carried
This Conference notes with concern the under representation in UNISON structures and the seeming lack of involvement of South Asian women in UNISON. As part of UNISON’s approach to equality and its own equality scheme it is essential that this issue is addressed. Therefore Conference instructs the National Black Members Committee (NBMC) to;
1.Carry out a UNISON wide mapping exercise to identify the numbers of UNISON South Asian women members; the demographics, the types of jobs they are employed to do and geography of these members; how many of those are activists within UNISON; what role they hold in UNISON; and any other useful mapping information as appropriate.
2.Use the information from this mapping exercise to set SMART UNISON targets on South Asian women recruitment and retention.
3.Survey existing UNISON South Asian women members to ascertain the barriers to them becoming active in UNISON and what they consider UNISON could do to overcome these.
4.Once the results of the survey is known the NBMC is further instructed to carry out additional, appropriate work to overcome the barriers to UNISON South Asian women members activism and to encourage future involvement of this group by developing courses that empower these women to become involved and active, utilising external partner agencies as required.
5.Identify individual UNISON South Asian women members who can champion and lead on this work, for example as part of the UNISON Leadership Programme.
6.Report back to UNISON Black Members Conference 2012 on this work and what has been achieved.