Kamaljeet is an economist by training and is a GMB National Officer for Equality. He is responsible for the delivery of ‘Equality through inclusion’ strategy, designed to mainstream equality matters to the core aims of the GMB.

Working with the trade union organisation, as the National Diversity Manager, Kamaljeet, was responsible for turning around Ford of Britain from a company that was vilified in the press for discrimination, experiencing litigation, to one, which is now recognised as best in class. 

Before joining Ford, he was employed as a policy officer with the Trade Union Congress, where he ensured trade union support for the Stephen Lawrence Family Campaign.  He was also researcher with the Transport and General Workers Union. He led a community based campaign to unionise cleaners and catering workers at Heathrow Airport who were mainly Asian women for whom English was their second language.

Kamaljeet was a Commissioner with the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) and chaired the London Board of the CRE, where he drove the work of the Board to ensure that ‘anti poverty and equality ‘were central to the major regeneration programmes in London including the Olympics. He is a member of the Labour Party National Policy Forum.