Working nine-to-five, round-the-clock shifts, only when the boss wants you or not working at all ...
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It's our annual meet
to judge how you've conformed
So please take a seat
- how have you performed?
Your targets aren't SMART
and it's really a shame
That you didn't take part
in our team-building game
Your goals are alright
but you soon come a-cropper
You're quite impolite
to our mystery shopper
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Ever wondered why only 16% of autistic adults have a full-time job?
He worked alone, not a team player
Not a keeper or a stayer
Didn’t fit in, not really our sort
Talked about boring stuff not sport
We had to let him go
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by PCS rep, Helen Sheridan
Never give a trade unionist a platform if you want to get away on time. I hope you're all sitting comfortably. For anyone who cares about these things, my name is Helen Sheridan and I am a trade union representative with the Public and Commercial Services Union. I have served on the Executive Committee for my branch for almost ten years, as well as on various sub-committees within the branch. I'm also Autistic.
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Autistic, dyspraxic, dyslexic and other people with atypical brain wiring have particular experiences under capitalism. These experiences have positive and negative aspects, and for many people include distress and disadvantage. What are the roots and the causes of this experience? Can we develop the positives while removing the disadvantages? Can we resolve the negatives by tweaking the current system?
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Written for and published by TotalJobs.com, here.
Work can be an uphill climb for autistic people. Colleague support can smooth out the gradient and make it easier going, explains Janine Booth, co-chair of the TUC Disabled Workers’ Committee.
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Janine proposing a motion to 2017 RMT Women's Conference about women's cancers and work. The motion was carried unanimously.
You can read this speech here, and the resolution here.
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Published on the PCS blog on 10 April 2017:
For autism awareness month, trainer and campaigner Janine Booth blogs about the neurodiversity in the workplace course she is running for PCS.
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From the TUC handbook, Autism in the Workplace
Workplaces and employers make work difficult for autistic workers for the following reasons:
Discrimination: Treating the autistic worker differently from, less favourably than, others.
Bullying by management, including ridicule and physical/ verbal abuse.
Lack of communication and support.
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The second section of the Workers' Liberty pamphlet 'Comrades and Sisters' looks at women's situation today.
Domestic work, (badly-)paid work, the vast gulf between working-class and ruling-class women. Women in communities, and women in the welfare state. Religious fundamentalism, the state, New Labour and family values.
How can Marxism explain women's oppression?
Housework is Horrid
