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Disabled union activists repeatedly challenged a Labour minister at a conference this week on the government’s plans to cut billions of pounds a year from spending on disability benefits. There was prolonged applause when one disabled delegate, Mark Anthony Bastiani, from […]
Disabled union delegates have been accused of failing to support the disability movement after refusing to back a motion at their annual conference that called on political parties, and the TUC, to support a manifesto drawn up by disabled people’s organisations. […]
Disabled trade unionists have warned that they will hold Labour to account on the promises it makes to improve the rights of disabled workers, if the party wins power at July’s general election. They have also called for activists to exert […]
Disabled union activists have attacked the government’s demonisation of disabled people and its “disgraceful discriminatory language”, at a conference that began less than a day after prime minister Rishi Sunak finally announced the date of the general election. A series of […]
Teachers, train drivers and other union activists have called for urgent action to secure the rights of disabled workers with long Covid. Among their demands, they are calling for statutory recognition of long Covid to ensure disabled employees are protected under […]
Disabled activists have warned of the “chilling” impact on disabled workers of the government’s decision to end shielding from the end of this month. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) last week began sending letters to those on the […]