👉🏿 🎟️ Get your ticket today for 11 Feb TUC & Stand Up To Racism trade union conference: bit.ly/TUconf2024
🙋🏾♀️🙋🏽♂️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏼♀️🙋🏿♂️Pass the model motion
🔥In 2024 the anti racist movement is going to be critical, and the role of trade unions at its heart is vital.
✍🏾 Register now for the Fighting for Anti Racist Workplaces trade union conference hosted by Stand Up To Racism and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) taking place Sunday 11 February at the National Education Union HQ, Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, London, WC1H 9BB.
📢 Speakers include so far:
🔥Daniel Kebede, NEU general secretary
🔥Fran Heathcote, PCS general secretary elect
🔥Shavanah Taj, Wales TUC general secretary
🔥Kudsia Batool, TUC Head of Equalities
🔥Riz Hussein, TUC Race Equality Officer
🔥Weyman Bennet & Sabby Dhalu Stand Up To Racism co convenors
🔥 & more
The Sunak government is attempting to use racism and scapegoating to divide and rule our side amidst the ongoing cost of living crisis.
The scapegoating of refugees and migrant workers is all about finding someone to blame for their disastrous policies.
If they succeed in winning the arguments it will immensely weaken our ability to resist attacks on trade union members and the workplaces and communities they defend.
Unity is our strength, racism is all about dividing us in the workplace and weakening our collective response to the cost of living crisis. Tory rhetoric has emboldened a new far right in Britain.
This is a very real threat as we are seeing growing success for racist and fascist groups across Europe.
While the far right uses racism to win an audience it also wants to attack organised workers and any kind of democracy.
In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement we have seen the development of a new generation of black and anti-racist activists in the trade unions.
This is a positive development that will strengthen the whole movement.
So how do we maintain our unity in the face of government rhetoric and far right mobilisations?
How do we make our workplaces a fortress against division and promote a positive anti-racist agenda?
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REQUESTS TO UNIONS:
- Can you advertise the trade union conference on your union’s website?
- Can you circulate details of the trade union conference to your members as part of your mass circulation emails?
- Can you send your press and social media organisers to a meeting we will facilitate in the coming weeks (details to follow) to plan press and social media strategies to maximise the turn out on 16 & 17 March?
- Can you encourage branches, regions and executives to pass the model motion and send delegations?