Marxist. Trade Unionist. Socialist-feminist. Author. Poet. Speaker. Tutor. RMT ex-Exec. Workers' Liberty. Autie. Bi. PUFC fan.
Speeches
Video: Neurodiversity and Socialism
Janine speaks about neurodiversity, capitalism and socialism at the Autistic Pride event in Woolwich on 30 July 2022. Includes the poem Manifesto from Behind the Mask.
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Disabled People for Free Trade Unions: TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference Fringe Meeting 2022
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.
Speaking about Minnie Lansbury at HMP Holloway
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Janine will tell the story of one of Holloway prison's former residents at this event to mark the seventh anniversary of the prison's closure and promote proposals for a progressive Women's Building in its place.
Venue: entrance to HMP Holloway, Parkhurst Road, London N7 0NU.
Accessibility As Standard Not 'As Required'
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.
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Women and Shiftwork
Janine's contribution to the debate on shiftwork at TUC Women's Conference 2022.
Read the text here.
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Women Working Shifts
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.
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Speaking for Labour to adopt neurodiversity policy
The Labour Party's 2021 National Policy Forum report contained no mention of neurodiversity, despite a detailed and popular submission from Neurodivergent Labour to the Forum. So Janine proposed to Conference that it 'refer back' that section of the report so that the NPF would have to consider including this policy. This is what happened at Conference on Monday 27 September ...
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Calling for Labour to adopt policy on neurodiversity
At 2021 Labour Party conference, I moved a 'reference back' of the National Policy Forum report, due to its failure to include any policy on neurodiversity, despite a detailed submission being made to the policy forum process. This is what I said in the one minute allocated. Delegates passed the reference back.
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Janine Booth, Lewes CLP and Chair of Neurodivergent Labour.
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Asking Sadiq Khan to improve cleaners' pay and conditions
At Labour party conference, I spoke in the debate about local government, shortly after London Mayor Sadiq Khan had spoken. This is the second part of what I said.