Equalities

They’re marching off to war on woke,
to fan the flames, to fuel and stoke
a cooked-up culture conflagration,

There is an excellent article in November 2022's Labour Research - 'Neurodiversity: a core bargaining issue'. I'm pleased to say that I am extensively quoted!

If you would like to read the full text, ask your trade union if it has an account which you can use to log in to the LRD website.

These are the opening speeches from this event, held on Zoom on Tuesday 22 March 2022.

Sarah Woolley (General Secretary, Bakers’, Food and Allied Workers’ Union): Welcome to the joint RMT and Free Our Unions TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference fringe meeting.

TUC Disabled Workers’ Committee strongly opposes the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill.

The Bill includes new duties which oblige public services to share service users’ information with the police, which is an unacceptable shift away from a public health approach to an authoritarian approach, which will erode trust between public services and disabled people.

The TUC's Disabled Members' Committee has made this statement: Accessible public transport is essential for disabled people to participate in society on an equal and independent basis. To be genuinely accessible, public transport must be adequately staffed by workers with decent standards of training, pay, conditions and security of employment.

She provoked him.
She said she was leaving him.
She’s been looking at other guys.

He had to show her.
She had to know
She isn’t a person in her own right,
She’s part of him.

She is the buffer between him and a hostile world.

Janine's opening remarks at the TUC Disabled Workers' Conference panel discussion on Accessibility As Standard Not 'As Required': building accessible workplaces for all, on Monday 21 March 2022.

Which is better?

A. A wheelchair user arrives at their new workplace, enters it and starts work.

At this year's TUC Women's Conference, one of the motions we debated was about working shifts, particularly women's safety on late shifts. This was my contribution to the debate.

You can watch the video of this speech here.

I'm Janine Booth, RMT, and I've worked on London Underground for over 25 years.

- report by Janine Booth, RMT nominee on the Committee

Flexible working and reasonable adjustments

The TUC has been advocating what it calls ‘flexible working as a reasonable adjustment’ for disabled workers. What it means by this is the right of disabled workers to work from home or another location, with hours that suit our access needs.