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UNISON’s accessibility passports ensure that reasonable adjustments don’t need to be renegotiated […]

‘Threatening benefit cuts or accusing disabled people of “not doing their duty” achieves nothing,’ writes UNISON general secretary

UNISON’s disabled members’ conference debates pay gaps, the national care service, and the health and disability white paper

MSP Pam Duncan-Glancy tells UNISON’s disabled members conference that delegates work is ‘changing lives’

The annual report notes that UNISON has successfully negotiated for five of the charter’s asks to be included in the Labour policy […]

Ahead of UNISON’s national disabled members conference, one delegate talks about her life as a neurodiverse person – and how being diagnosed has changed it for the better

UNISON says that the Equality Act 2020 is being misrepresented by the Equality and Human Rights Commission

The ground-breaking Disability Employment Charter, which UNISON co-founded, calls for a legal two-week limit in responding to reasonable adjustments

This is UNISON’s year of the disabled worker and the union is launching a new campaign to help members challenge disability discrimination in the NHS

Why 2022 is ‘an exciting opportunity to showcase the skills, experience and qualities that disabled people bring to the workplace and to society’

UNISON’s national disabled members’ pass 21 motions as well as two emergency motions in jam-packed live event

Speakers touched on a number of issues relating to post-COVID bargaining for disabled workers’ rights

General secretary addressed UNISON’s disabled members’ conference on Monday, acknowledging their extraordinary work before looking to the future

New charter calls for concrete steps to improve the working lives of disabled people

A new toolkit battles misconceptions about the condition and provides support to employers and employees