Received from: TUC Black Workers Conference
Conference notes with concern that racialised sexual harassment and misogynoir in the workplace goes unreported and unacknowledged.
Conference commends the groundbreaking TUC report on sexual harassment of Black women in the workplace.
Conference also notes that hair discrimination and cultural bias are firmly rooted in systemic racism, which is not only an everyday issue for Black women but a form of violence.
We call upon Congress to:
i. ensure misogynoir is recognised as violence and racialised sexual harassment of Black women
ii. actively adopt the term misogynoir
iii. build an industrial response to misogynoir
iv. campaign against hair discrimination in the workplace including education establishments
v. look into producing resource/ information on misogynoir for workplace reps to identify, tackle and better understand representing those who are subjected to racialised sexual harassment
vi. campaign for zero tolerance on racialised sexual harassment in the workplace
vii. consider an anonymised reporting mechanism for Black women to share, discuss and, access appropriate support and healing services
viii. replicate the reporting of racialised sexual harassment in the same way as the anti-racism task force tracker.
TUC Black Workers Conference