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Speeches

Disabled People for Free Trade Unions: TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference Fringe Meeting 2022

Submitted by Janine on 18 November 2022 at 19:30

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

Submitted by Janine on 17 November 2022 at 20:21
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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.

Women Working Shifts

Submitted by Janine on 13 March 2022 at 19:23

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.

Speaking for Labour to adopt neurodiversity policy

Submitted by Janine on 11 October 2021 at 12:11

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 ...

Calling for Labour to adopt policy on neurodiversity

Submitted by Janine on 03 October 2021 at 10:59

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.