Neurodiversity in the Workplace training: CWU London region
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08/07/2019 - 09:30
Details to follow!
Other unions
Neurodiversity: PCS at HMRC Croydon
Submitted by Janine on
07/06/2019 - 09:30
Venue: HMRC, 1 Ruskin Square, Croydon, Surrey. Nearest mainline station: East Croydon
Janine will be running a workshop on Neurodiversity at this event for civil servants organised by their trade union, PCS.
More details to follow.
PCS Neurodiversity Stage 2 training, Glasgow
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25/06/2019 - 09:30
A follow-up course for PCS members and reps who have already attended the Stage 1 training course.
Neurodiversity Workshop at PCS Learning Day
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28/02/2019 - 13:30
Venue: PCS headquarters, Clapham Junction.
If you are a PCS member interested in this event, please contact the regional office.
NASUWT Autism in the Workplace training
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14/05/2019 - 09:00
A one-day course for teacher trade unionists in the delightful surroundings of the NASUWT Hillscourt Education Centre in Birmingham.
Contact NASUWT for details and to register.
Make our unions more accessible!
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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.
Learning Disability: raising awareness and working with charities
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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!
Mental Health: beyond awareness
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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.
Report, TUC Disabled Workers’ Committee, 17 April 2018
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1. TUC Disabled Workers' Conference, 24-25 May, Bournemouth
- Motions - The Committee agreed to to support all motions and amendments, except:
- Unison's amendment to Unite's motion on Universal Credit (oppose) - the motion opposes UC; the amendment wants to change this to reforming it
- POA's motion on mental health discrimination (oppose) - the Committee can not support the Time To Change campaign, as it is run by Mind, which collaborates with the DWP
- Community's motion on sustainable supported employment (decision deferred) - the motion proposes promoting a particular company as 'best practice' for the employment of disabled people - we need more information before endorsing this
Union blog - Autism: raising awareness and winning acceptance
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I wrote this blog for the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), which published it on 3 April 2017.
At the start of Autism Awareness Month, campaigner Janine Booth says autistic people's involvement in our trade unions is essential to winning acceptance and raising awareness.
Do you have any autistic workmates? Perhaps you do. Perhaps you do but you don’t realise it. Perhaps you are autistic yourself. Maybe you have an autistic dependant – child or adult – or you know a workmate who does.
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