Search News and Blogs tagged disabled members

Help our research to uncover the effect austerity is having, whether you are an LGBT service user or working providing services

Delegate stresses that UNISON reps have the skills to be workplace advocates for disabled members

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

Reasonable adjustments for healthcare students on clinical placements, accessibility passports, and disability and carers’ leave all discussed at health conference

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

Graeme Ellis and Tansaim Hussain-Gul are co-chairs of UNISON’s national disabled members’ committee. Here, they look at how COVID-19 has disproved myths about home working being unproductive

President and general secretary announce decision, with social distancing and health and safety concerns set to continue for some time

UNISON disabled members’ conference marks Disability Pay Gap Day and calls for mandatory reporting

Assistant general secretary Christina McAnea address disabled members and urges them to tell people to consider public services when they decide how to vote in December’s general election

Assistant general secretary addresses disabled members’ conference

Disabled members speak out about the importance of mental health care and the role that mental health first aid can play

Emma Lewell-Buck highlights ‘cruelty’ of government policies toward disabled people

Research by the Papworth Trust reveals that NHS claim swayed disabled voters ‘who didn’t know how many of their protections were form the EU’

Guest speaker to disabled members’ conference explains the work of a House of Lords committee looking at the Equality Act

‘The cuts have shattered our enthusiasm’