#STUC24 Congress unanimously supported
a call from Aberdeen Trades Union
Council for trade unions and trade
union councils to practice what they preach on equalities.
Kathleen Kennedy
The general council will work with equalities
groups urging them to report annually on equality statistics and aims and
targets to improve them if needed.
Moving the motion, Kathleen Kennedy told delegates that saying we are doing
equalities isn’t good enough.
“Let’s get real and prove we are doing it,” she
urged.
She said that checking back on ATUC’s 150 years
it’s clear that there have been only two women presidents and only two disabled
presidents.
“We need to get our own house in order,”
challenged Kathleen, calling for annual reporting of unions’ and TU councils’ equality
stats and targets for improvement.
Speakers from other unions supported our motion
making it clear that there is still a way to go across the TU movement on
gender equality and other equalities.