UNISON’s national Black Members conference was held in Edinburgh from 20 – 22 January 2023
UNISON has 185,000 Black members, most of whom work in health and local government services, with significant numbers working in social care and schools. Many deliver frontline services, and many are low paid.
In UNISON, ‘Black’ – with a capital B – is used to indicate people with a shared history. ‘Black’ is used in a broad political sense to describe people in the UK who have suffered from colonialism and enslavement in the past and continue to experience racism and diminished opportunities today.
Hasmukh Mistry attended this year’s conference on behalf of East Midlands Gas (Southern) Branch. You can read his report below.
National Black Members Conference 2023 report