9 – 17 May 2022
Challenging racism in the workplace is absolutely central to UNISON’s work. Racism deepens the impact of labour market exploitation of Black workers. This can be manifested not only through bullying and harassment, but workplace structures and processes which covertly disadvantage Black workers. Appropriate information gathering and monitoring is vital to highlight racism. These tend to highlight situations where Black workers are over-concentrated in lower grade jobs, more likely to be subject to disciplinaries, redundancies, and have to use grievance procedures more often than other workers.
Without a strong organising response to deeply rooted discrimination and ensuring that equality is placed firmly on the bargaining table, many of our members will suffer blighted life chance and opportunities.
This training course and resources offer a range of ideas and checklists for activists to help them incorporate anti racism in their day to day campaigning, organising, recruitment and negotiation work, which in turn will help end the isolation felt by many Black workers and encourage proactive involvement in fighting for a fairer workplace.
What will the course help me to do?
- Raise your awareness of the opportunities equality law provides to identify institutional racism and ensure that the issues are dealt with.
- Improve your knowledge of the tools you can use to engage with your employer on tackling race discrimination.
- Explore how an organising approach can be taken to tackling racism in the workplace.
- Build confidence in negotiating with employers and anticipating. any challenges.
- Develop a realistic action plan to take forward to your branch.
When does the course run?
You will be required to be online for the following four three-hour sessions: You will be expected to be online:-
9 and 10 May – 9.30-12.30
16 and 17 May – 9.30-12.30
The course will be facilitated by Microsoft Teams.
How much does the course cost?
There is a charge of £40. Your branch will fund this cost and they will be invoiced once you have completed the course.