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

  30-10-2023 16:14
  
  Scottish Labour politician Pam Duncan-Glancy (pictured above) underlined the need to increase the confidence of disabled people to self-define in the workplace, when she addressed UNISON’s disabled members conference yesterday.
  Referencing one important aspect of the union’s 2022 Year of Disabled Workers, she said: “Self-defining as disabled is how we elevate our rights in the workplace, boardroom and, yes, in parliament.
  “That’s how we turn the whole thing on it&rs
  
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• Disabled members look towards the general election

  30-10-2023 13:10
  
  UNISON’s disabled members conference opened in Edinburgh at the weekend with a review of the union’s achievements over the past year in relation to disability equality, but also a disturbing picture of the problems that continue to be faced by members.
  Amanda Sweetlove, deputy co-chair of the disabled members committee (pictured above), moved the annual report to delegates of what was their largest ever conference.
  Ms Sweetlove reported that the committee had been “extremely bu
  
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