Help shape the future of PIPs

If you receive PIP, support someone who does, or work with people affected by the benefit, we’re urging you to share your experiences

Clive Lewis MP and Sir Stephen Timms holding 'I support disabled workers' at UNISON event

Welfare reform must involve disabled people

UNISON hosts parliamentary event to highlight the findings of welfare reform survey

UNISON disabled members gathered together for the covid workshop.

Celebrating the power and unity of disabled workers

Christina McAnea praised members for leading the fight against damaging welfare reforms

Welfare reforms risk forcing disabled people out of work, says UNISON

Survey finds people with disabilities rely on the personal independence payment to be able to work

man in wheelchair

Changes to PIPs – we need to hear from you by 30 June

UNISON needs to hear from disabled members about how proposed changes to PIPs (Personal Independence Payments) will affect them – but hurry closes 30 June

Christina McAnea leans on a railing with her hands clasped, wearing a black top

Opinion: Ministers must listen to disabled people

Government plans on benefits would drive some disabled people into poverty and put further strain on the NHS

Head and shoulders portrait of Angela Hamilton, who represents disable members on UNISON's national executive council

Opinion: Inspiring action and change for disabled workers

UK Disability History Month helps to recognise the valuable role disabled people play at work and in society

Annette Heslop speaking at health conference

Barriers for disabled staff in the health service need to be lowered

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

Christina McAnea urges chancellor to make ‘real and positive change’ for disabled workers

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

‘Pay gaps exist because no one is looking,’ disabled members hear

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

Disabled people should be asking employers if they are ‘fit to employ’

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

Disabled members look towards the general election

UNISON’s disabled members conference opened with a round-up of the year’s activity – including positive lobbying for disability equality

Living with neurodiversity

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

Behind the headlines, UNISON people on the Magazine site.

UNISON fights to protect rights of workers with long COVID

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

UNISON Year of Disabled Workers logo

Blog: UK government should take notice of the new disability charter

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