Disabled people campaigning for rights - for access, benefits, services and equality; against discrimination, cuts, prejudice and pity!
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PCS members in London and the South are welcome to attend this two-day course run by Janine. If you would like to attend, please contact your regional training officer or your branhc secretary.
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A two-day course to introduce civil service trade union reps and activists to neurodiversity and how they can help to fight discrimination.
To register, please contact your regional office.
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Neurotypicals
Seem odd because they can't see
The trees for the wood
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I sent this letter to the organisers of The Autism Shows on Thursday 21 June. If you are an autistic adult and would like to add your name, please email me before then.
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Seconding a motion from the University and Colleges Union (UCU) about the Disabled People’s Summit, I outlined the reasoning behind the text that RMT had added to the motion via our amendment. The motion (incorporating the amendment) was passed unanimously.
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This is my proposing speech for TUC Disabled Workers’ Committee’s emergency motion calling for action to stop cuts to funding for kids with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. Several trade unions’ delegates spoke in support of the motion, which was passed unanimously.
Conference, I am going to tell you:
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The final motion at this year’s TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference was on Learning Disability. As this is an important and neglected issue, and the motion made some good points, it was clearly going to pass. However, I thought it important to point out some problems with it. Contributions to the debate were limited to three minutes, so this is probably more blunt and less nuanced than it might have been!
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Published on PCS blog, 17 May 2018:
In Mental Health Awareness Week, Janine warns that we need to be more than just aware, but prepared to take action on mental health.
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Disabled transport workers discussed issues from workplace representation to the role of charities at their two-day RMT conference in Southend on 26-27 April.
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Janine will be speaking and answering questions about Autism in the Workplace at Five Leaves Bookshop in Nottingham.
Copies of Janine's book Autism Equality in the Workplace will be available for sale.
