Post #5

Confronting Racism at work
All this fuss about the Met reminds me that I spent a fair bit of time in my office the other day dealing – as I so often do – with racism. The pervasive nature of racism in the workplace means that it is present as an element of many of the circumstances with which union reps have to deal – and it is perceived to be present in many circumstances as well (and the two sets of circumstances overlap but are not coterminous).Our Union rightly devotes great energy to the overt offensive racism of the BNP and I wholeheartedly support all attempts to drive them back into the sewers where they belong.However, for many of our black members it is the everyday experience of institutional racism in the workplace which is the problem the Union needs to confront.And it is tricky.
This is a blog from an average man who has to deal with racism in the work place everyday. This guy is a union rep and has to deal with racial problems day in and day out. The union he works for is supporting the extinction of this racism in their union and do what they can to expel this horrible issue. The man that wrote this blog above agrees whole heartedly with the companies efforts to get rid of racism in the work place.