This conference believes that the movement of young Black people that started following the death of Michael Brown in Fergusson, Missouri in 2014 has played a revitalising role fighting back against the disproportionately large number of Black people that are killed or injured at the hands of the police forces throughout the US. The march […]
Conference motions
This Conference welcomes the work of the Scottish region young members in developing their ‘Gonnae No Dae That’ (‘Can you not do that?’) campaign to challenge bullying of young workers in the workplace. This Conference believes that Black young workers are likely to suffer disproportionately from bullying and harassment at work. Conference further believes that […]
This Conference notes that, at time of writing, there are around 3,700 Black young members in UNISON membership who have chosen to identify their ethnic origin on the RMS i.e. have identified themselves as either Asian other, Bangladeshi, Black UK, Black African, Black Caribbean, Black other, Chinese, Indian, or Pakistani. This represents approximately 6% of […]