TUC Black Workers' Conference 2008

TUC Black Workers' Conference 2008

Date: 18-20 April 2008
Venue: Floral Hall, Eastboune

The 2008 TUC Black Workers Conference is being held at the Floral Hall in the Winter Gardens in Eastbourne between Friday 19 and Sunday 21 April.

Speakers at the conference include; TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber, Refugee Council Chief Executive Donna Covey; International Trade Union Confederation Director of Equality Ms P Kamalam and Zora Moosa of the Fawcett Society

• Report of the TUC Race Relations Committee 2008 [PDF]
• The TUC report - Ten years after[PDF] - launched at the 2008 TUC black workers conference

Press release: BME employment rates rising steadily but pay and poverty still a concern
The 'employment gap' between black and ethnic minority (BME) workers is closing steadily, but BME poverty rates are still nearly twice as high, according to a new report released today