In previous blog entries, we already discussed ways to prevent racism at work, but we didn’t mention where employees can turn to if they are confronted with this problem.
Labour unions can definitely help to mitigate racial disparities. By collective bargaining they give the employees the opportunity to speak without fear. Moreover, they can help the racial minorities by talking to the management of the firm about the problems that these people face, and discussing the best ways to tackle them.
As a conclusion to these three weeks of blogging, I think we can say that it became very clear that racial discrimination in the labour market is a common problem, but by no means an easy one to solve. In my opinion, it will never be possible to completely eliminate racism at work, but what we can do, is try to find ways to prevent it and properly address the problem if it occurs.
Furthermore, as Laurence already mentioned, it’s important that we look beyond the most frequent form of racism, which is against people of colour, to discover that the overlooked phenomenon of racism against white people exists as well.
I think these should be the main points to focus on in our paper and presentation.
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Annelies Delaere
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