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Union activists applaud challenge to minister over billions of pounds of cuts to disability benefits

By John Pring on 5th June 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Union activists applaud challenge to minister over billions of pounds of cuts to disability benefits
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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 […]

Union activists attack government’s ‘dehumanising’ rhetoric

By John Pring on 30th May 2024 Category: Politics

Union activists attack government’s ‘dehumanising’ rhetoric
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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 […]

Telegraph articles ‘legitimise’ hate speech, disabled activists tell TUC conference

By John Pring on 13th July 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Telegraph articles ‘legitimise’ hate speech, disabled activists tell TUC conference
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Union activists have called for action over discriminatory articles in a national newspaper that “legitimise” hate speech by attacking disabled benefit claimants. Disabled journalists – backed overwhelmingly by fellow union activists – called this week for the press regulator to strengthen […]

TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference: ‘Critically-flawed universal credit must be scrapped’

By John Pring on 31st May 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference: ‘Critically-flawed universal credit must be scrapped’
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Disabled trade unionists have voted overwhelmingly in favour of scrapping the government’s much-criticised universal credit benefits system. A series of speakers at the TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference in Bournemouth (pictured) – attended by disabled delegates from 22 unions – spoke of […]

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