Press Release on 21st June 1999 from
59 Stoke Newington Church Street, London N16 0AR
tel: 0171 249 7318 | fax: 0171 923 9599 | email:
LIWC@dial.pipex.com
re: Launch of Trade Union Survey on 15th July 1999
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The London Irish Women's Centre is holding the Public Launch of a new report entitled Suirbhe na gCeardchumann (Trade Union Survey) on Thursday, July 15th at 4.00pm at the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) Elliot House, 10/12 Allington Street, Victoria, London, SW1E 5EH.
The report is about trade unions and ethnic monitoring. It is based upon the findings of a survey of TUC affiliated unions carried out by the LIWC in October 1998. It looks at the progress unions are making with ethnic monitoring and the position of Irish people within individual trade unions ethnic monitoring programmes. The report considers Irish people's experiences of disadvantage and discrimination at work and in other key areas. It calls for a more comprehensive system of ethnic monitoring to be applied by all unions and makes several recommendations to the trade union movement and the Irish community.
Speakers at this Launch include Bob Purkiss, CRE Commissioner and Chair of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) Race Equality Committee; Mary Jo McAllister, Chair of National Association of Probation Officers (NAPO); Aoife Donoghue, UNISON Shop steward and Equality Officer; Kamiljeet Jandu, Policy Officer TUC; Angie Birtill, Housing and Employment Rights Worker LIWC.
Copies of Suirbhe na gCeardchumann will be available at the Launch. There will also be refreshments and an opportunity to discuss the issues raised in the report.
There is disabled access to the CRE building. Anyone who requires a sign language interpreter is asked to contact the LIWC on 0171 249 7318 by 29/06/99.
For further information contact:
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