A representative movement. The_TUC's new chief nowak_paul outlines his plan for trade unions to tackle racism at work. TUC22
: “You’re absolutely right, anti-racism is part of our DNA, and it is a long-standing commitment. It’s right for us to challenge ourselves to make sure we’re living up to that commitment.
“So this year, at the Congress, the Anti Racism Taskforce will be reporting. It’s been a challenging initiative and an ambitious one. I’m hopeful that we have a document that really sets out what more the government needs to do, what more employers need to do, and what more unions themselves need to do to be genuine anti racist organisations, and to, to meet the concerns and the issues that matter to our black members.
“We take them up at the bargaining table, we hold employers to account, we prosecute those cases of racial discrimination. Another key element is about making sure we’ve got more Black reps and activists because people would have more confidence if they thought that the union movement looked and sounded like them, and people who’ve had the same experiences that they’ve had. We’ve still got a massive job to do in terms of making sure our representative base is genuinely representative.
: “It will continue in spirit and in practice because we’re committed to is setting up an implementation group, which will monitor what we do after the Taskforce. We’ve got an anti racist manifesto that we’re asking unions to sign up to, which sets out a number of pledges based on the sort of key workstreams of the taskforce and that implementation group, which Patrick [Roach] will be closely involved; in Gloria Mills from the Race Relations Committee, they will be holding us to account.
“And we’ll be reporting back on a regular basis to the General Council and to Congress next year, as well. Quite often we talk about what are the big public policy changes that we need to see and that’s all important but frankly we can’t wait for a change of government. We have to do what we can do right now in workplaces.
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