The Campaign also forms part of the Scottish Executive's One Scotland Many Cultures initiative and is a development partner of the EU Equal SWELL initiative.
Key Aims:
'Promote the Scottish Executive's One Scotland Many Cultures campaign at a workplace level and work with individual trade unions on capacity building programmes to tackle racism. ' Promote and raise awareness about the new rights for employees in the areas of race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, religion, and age and how to access these rights to both unions and employers. ' Offer support and advice to trade union representatives and officials on the implementation of equal opportunities best practice and tackling discrimination and racism, through workplace bargaining and specific awareness raising, policy/practice development, or learning programme initiatives in partnership with employers. ' Enhance co-operation and the transfer of expertise between the key equality advice agencies (CRE, DRC, EOC, Stonewall) and trade unions in tackling discrimination and promoting equality at work.
Campaign Objectives:
' Undertake baseline research to establish the key challenges in promoting equality in the workplace, and identify any gaps in the current approach by trade unions to promoting equal opportunities best practice. Then to undertake comparative research at the end of the project to measure any progress made during the life of the project. ' Establish and facilitate an advisory group of key stakeholders to guide the project and advise on campaign materials, website development, toolkit and training course content. ' Develop and disseminate 'One Workplace Equal Rights' campaigning and information materials to raise awareness of race equality and equal opportunities issues in the workplace. (These materials will be made widely available for use by trade union members and non-members alike.) ' Develop a network of equality experts/contacts from across the trade unions, equality commissions, advice orgs etc in Scotland willing to participate in the project by sharing their expertise either through the on-line or Hotline or through participation in the seminars. 'Establish and promote the one Workplace Hotline aimed at supporting employees, trade union workplace reps and officers. ? Deliver 4 seminars around Scotland for employers in key sectors aimed at promoting equal opportunities best practice in the workplace, and raising awareness about the new equality framework. 'Develop face-to-face and on-line learning packages through TUC learning services aimed at TU activists with the aim of creating 100 bargaining for equality reps over 2 years. ' Deliver 4 seminars for trade union representatives and officials on mainstreaming equal opportunities best practice, including on race issues, in the workplace and the new equality framework. ' Work with TUC learning services to develop and mainstream a bargaining for equality module into all basic shop stewards and Health and Safety Rep courses in Scotland. ' Develop and co-ordinate an STUC online advice and good practice Website with information, toolkits, best practice guidance, and online advice being provided by the EOC, DRC, CRE, Stonewall and trade union equality experts. ' Assist individual unions who wish to tailor their own learning programmes on equality law and mainstreaming best practice, or progress these issues through the development of partnership training programmes, policy/practice development, and promotional work with employers. ' Monitor and evaluate all activity undertaken, including the commissioning of baseline research and progress evaluation.
Target Groups:
' Trade Union Workplace Representatives ' Trade union officials 'Private, Public and Voluntary Sector employers ' Employees in the Private, Public and Voluntary sectors For more information, visit the campaign website (link below) or call 0800 027 66 55.
