Challenging Racism in the Workplace is vital to UNISON’s work, whether it involves bargaining and negotiating for members; growing our membership; challenging pay freezes, reorganisations and redundancies or organising our member around campaigns that matter most to them.
UNISON’s Black members have many of the same concerns as any other member regarding access to employment, pay, and conditions of service, promotion, and training. However, racist discrimination deepens the impact of labour marker exploitation on Black workers. It is racism that prevents them from having equal access to good quality jobs and pay. Race discrimination manifests itself in the workplace most obviously through bullying and harassment as well as the over-concentration of Black workers in lower graded jobs in an organisation and over-representation in disciplinaries, grievance and redundancies.
These patterns of discrimination might not be immediately uncovered with appropriate information gathering, analysis and monitoring and that is what UNISON is here to do.
Read our new bargaining leaflet on Challenging Racism in the Workplace.
