- Conference
- 2015 National Black Members' Conference
- Date
- 10 September 2014
- Decision
- Carried
Conference notes that it has been over 50 years since the Bristol bus boycott in 1963. Paul Stephenson was the spokesman for the group who wished to highlight the colour bar for Black workers to be employed as conductors and drivers on Bristol buses.
This boycott was credited in leading to the Race Relations Act being passed in 1965.
Conference calls on the National Black Members’ Committee:
1)To highlight in all appropriate publications, including Black Action, the influence on trade union history by Black activists;
2)To consider an event for Black History month covering the role Black activists have played in trade union history.