One of the country's biggest unions which answered the question do you monitor with 'Yes, in some respects' and the question as to whether the data was published in an annual report or some similar document with 'but we are not a company'. One with head offices based right in the heart of London, a multiracial city with a quarter of its entire population black or Asian which did not monitor but knew that out of 110 staff and officers none were black or Asian. Or the big union which confidently declared 'Yes' to the question, but could not actually give any statistics as the relevant senior official was not around. From the TUC came the comment that 'monitoring is intermittent and unsuccessful with a particularly poor response from regional TUCs'. There were barriers in the way of achieving early change in the ethnic balance among those unions employ, but this meant that there should be all the more of a premium on developing practice to exploit every possible opportunity for change.
Action plans to put things right and get change on the go.