Unite celebrates LGBT History Month

This is a month to recognise and celebrate LGBT struggle for liberation throughout history

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L www.twitter.com/unitetheunion www.facebook.com/unitetheunion1 020 7611 2500 [email protected] www.unitetheunion.org ES/7273-1/1-16 As Unite LGBT members we are electing union equality reps in workplaces trained on LGBT issues to make sure every Unite member has access to representation at work if they experience homophobia, transphobia and biphobia. Join us. Sam Webster Moore – senior rep BMW

We ensure you can get access Our reps talk to employers and negotiate to specialist employment law equality policies and terms and conditions of advice if you are discriminated employment that reflect the against at work. Join us. and equal marriage. Join Us. Mark Pasty Turner – Tata Steel David Smith – workplace rep Virgin Atlantic

Where we as union members decide we want to change things at work and we have intransigent employers we take collective industrial action. Join Us. Alan Dobbie. Unite Equality Rep National Health Service

We have real power with elected LGBT reps at every decision making table in Unite whether it is your local branch, regional industrial sector committees or the national executive – our voice is heard. Join Us. We have built an amazing and Maggie Ryan – Unite EC member Landrover Jaguar inclusive LGBT space through debating and networking at our regional and national We ensure all unite reps are up to date on conferences and committees. LGBT issues in the workplace through Join us. training and guidance. Join us. Phil Jones – National LGBT “Michelle Winstanley – Unite trans activist Committee Barclays Bank We organise leadership training for LGBT members to build our understanding of the LGBT union movement. Join us Jenny Douglas – Unite education tutor, Library Assistant

We campaign for equal rights for LGBT workers and against homophobia, transphobia and biphobia in our workplaces, communities and throughout civic society. Join Us. Siobhan Endean – National Officer for Equalities

Unite campaigns for LGBT rights are under threat due to Government’s trade union bill. Unite celebrates LGBT history month. The Government wants Unite LGBT to become history. Join us to stop the attacks on our trade unions . http://heartunions.org https://www.tuc.o”rg.uk/tubill February is the time for celebrating LGBT History Month

What is LGBT In 2017 LGBT history month will look at Citizenship, PSHE history Month? and Law as we mark the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of male homosexuality in England and . LGBT History Month focuses on the celebration and Jenny Douglas, chair of the Unite LGBT committee reflects on recognition of LGBT people and the importance of maintaining our rights in a post Brexit culture; past and present to give Britain; people scope to talk about the Unite is celebrating 50 years since the 1967 act, and we are bigger picture of LGBT looking to maintain our equal rights in the Brexit negotiations. experience, in which LGBT Europe had an overwhelmingly and undeniably positive impact people were the agents of on LGBT+ lives within our nations. This has been through a change rather than just victims combination of directives and European Court Rulings requiring of prejudice. changes in law to ensure a minimum standard of rights. It took 40+ years for British UK LGBT people to get the same rights as Why are Unite members other ‘minorities’. celebrating LGBT history month?

As a union we celebrate the achievements of LGBT people and are committed to equal rights of LGBT people at work and in social life. We highlight the discrimination faced by LGBT people nationally and internationally and believe that LGBT people should not need to hide due to fear and persecution. Unite through its regional and national structures has made a vital contribution to LGBT rights at work in the labour movement, LGBT movement and Pride. The trade union movement has ensured that February is established as LGBT History Month to celebrate LGBT For Unite to be fully representative we would encourage all people’s achievements and their our LGBT members to access "Member Login" on Unite continued struggle for equality website and update their details to include LGBT status. at work and in society. Join Unite. https://www.unitetheunion.org/join-unite/ Unite has democratically elected LGBT structures through its Regional and National Committees and Conferences. These active reps monitor policy on LGBT equality, advise our Executive on initiatives and issues relating to our LGBT membership and promote the LGBT agenda within the union and beyond.

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