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We know we have come a long way and what we have achieved and are now ready for the struggle to ensure further progress argues DIANA HOLLAND
TOGETHERNESS: Unite members employed by Serco at Barts Health NHS Trust protest outside Serco’s presentation of financial results at JP Morgan, in London

This week, hundreds of Unite women, black & Asian ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBT+ delegates are coming together in Blackpool for the four Unite national equalities conferences.

These union reps who make such a difference in their workplaces, industries and communities are debating and agreeing Unite’s equality priorities.

Austerity cuts, EU exit negotiations, stress and pressure from automation and digitalisation, privatisation and subcontracting are all being viewed through a powerful equality lens and debates include experience from the workplace across 20 industrial sectors in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland as we set a positive agenda to “take action for equality now!”

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