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What does such EDI-inspired trade union equality training look like? I will give some examples. There are racial literacy modules, including inclusive language codes, with charts listing problematic words. Another promises training to help spot and correct unconscious bias, microaggressions and Islamophobia. This feels like treating fellow workers as problems who need to be re-educated. Another course offers “resources to help reps recognise how white workers may unknowingly benefit from inequitable biases”. That is less the positive trade union aspiration of “black and white, unite and fight” and more the student union campaigns against white privilege. Surely that is regressive and divisive. The former chair of the EHRC, Trevor Phillips, wrote in a comment piece in the Times recently: