- Conference
- 2023 National Black Members’ Conference
- Date
- 29 September 2022
- Decision
- Carried
Conference condemns the continued political and physical attacks on refugees, asylum seekers and others without their status in the UK many of whom are UNISON Black Members.
Conference accepts that many people, even with the right to work, are often in precarious situations due to their immigration status.
Conference notes indefinite immigration detention in the UK has come under increased scrutiny, with urgent calls for a time limit coming recently from the Home Affairs Select Committee, the Joint Committee on Human Rights and HM Inspector of Prisons. The Home Affairs Select Committee “found serious problems with almost every element of the immigration detention system.”
Conference calls on the National Black Members Committee to work on a campaign to deliver a 28- day statutory time limit on immigration detention.
Conference reaffirms the right of all workers to employment which is safe and secure. To this end Conference calls on the National Black Members Committee to support the call made by a number of migrant bodies, anti-racist, poverty eradication groups and others that all undocumented and precarious people residing in the UK should be granted indefinite leave to remain.
Conference also calls on the National Black Members Committee to raise this with the Labour Link National Committee.