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People take part in the Pride Edinburgh 2023 parade through Edinburgh city centre
WORKERS who identify as LGBT are “lowering their expectations of working life to cope with ongoing discrimination and harassment,” according to a damning TUC study published today.
The report, coinciding with the end of Pride Month and the start of the union body’s two-day annual LGBT+ conference in London, reveals that despite improvements, all LGBT staff surveyed could “easily recall recent instances of workplace homophobia, biphobia and transphobia.”
Many workers feel “lucky” if they have inclusive managers and colleagues and “grateful” if basic equality standards are met, it warned.
Our priority must be to defend hard-won protections while linking equality law to trade union power and wider social transformation, says MARY DAVIS, on behalf of the Women’s Liberation Alliance
ANN HENDERSON looks at the centenary of the foundation of the STUC women’s committee, and the challenges facing women in the trade unions today
TIM ROBERTS says unions have always led on the fight for equality as well as for justice at work
The new Employment Rights Act is a step forward, but restoring collective bargaining and union power remains essential to tackling insecurity, outsourcing and low pay, says PAUL WHITEHOUSE