- Conference
- 2025 National Black Members' Conference
- Date
- 7 August 2024
- Decision
- Carried
The TUC Anti-racismTaskforce created a tracker to help unions tackle more effectively all the forms of racism faced by Black activists in their workplaces.
It is essential that UNISON Black activists are proactively supported at Branch and Regional levels to become involved in any organised events to raise awareness about racism in the workplaces.
The TUC Anti-Racism Taskforce also recommended that all unions explore the Black Talent Pools in their unions as a way of developing future Black Activist leaders, we need to assist Branches and Regions to increase the numbers of Black Members in leadership roles as lay activists at local and national levels.
We call on the National Black Members Committee(NBMC) to:
1)To to set targets for UNISON to use the talent pool to support Black activists to become leaders in our union at all levels in line with recommendations of the TUC Anti-Racism Taskforce;
2)To work with Regions to identify how many Black Members are Branch Secretaries, Chairs of Regional Committees and have completed the union’s Leadership training courses.
