Marxist. Trade Unionist. Socialist-feminist. Author. Poet. Speaker. Tutor. RMT ex-Exec. Workers' Liberty. Autie. Bi. PUFC fan.
Challenging discrimination and fighting for liberation
Janine has recently taken over as Poetry Editor of Asylum magazine. Asylum wants your poetry for our radical mental health magazine. Asylum has been running for nearly forty years, providing a platform for all perspectives on mental health. Asylum is influenced and … Read more
These are the opening speeches from this event, held on Zoom on Tuesday 22 March 2022. Sarah Woolley (General Secretary, Bakers’, Food and Allied Workers’ Union): Welcome to the joint RMT and Free Our Unions TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference fringe meeting. … Read more
Janine will tell the story of one of Holloway prison’s former residents at this event to mark the seventh anniversary of the prison’s closure and promote proposals for a progressive Women’s Building in its place. Venue: entrance to HMP Holloway, … Read more
Woolwich Common Youth Club, 144 Nightingale Place, Woolwich SE18 4HE Autistic speakers, poets and singers. Come and buy from the stalls with art, clothing, books and jewellery, all autistic made. 1.15pm Welcome opening by Emma Dalmayne 1.15 – 1.35pm – … Read more
How does capitalism disable people with impairments and differences? What alternative does socialism offer? Janine speaks alongside Richard Rieser (World of Inclusion) and Ellen Clifford (author and activist).
Invited to an event to answer a question of importance, I walked along the street with highness, went in through the door that revolves, past the guard of security, and spoke to the person with femaleness and helpfulness at the … Read more
She doesn’t cringe and cower, she’s not a fragile flower She picked on him and tricked him She’s not a perfect victim She tells of his coercion, he tells a different version How dare she contradict him? She’s not a … Read more
TUC Disabled Workers’ Committee strongly opposes the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. The Bill includes new duties which oblige public services to share service users’ information with the police, which is an unacceptable shift away from a public health … Read more
The TUC’s Disabled Members’ Committee has made this statement: Accessible public transport is essential for disabled people to participate in society on an equal and independent basis. To be genuinely accessible, public transport must be adequately staffed by workers with … Read more
She provoked him. She said she was leaving him. She’s been looking at other guys. He had to show her. She had to know She isn’t a person in her own right, She’s part of him. She is the buffer … Read more
Janine’s opening remarks at the TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference panel discussion on Accessibility As Standard Not ‘As Required’: building accessible workplaces for all, on Monday 21 March 2022. Which is better? A. A wheelchair user arrives at their new workplace, … Read more
Janine’s contribution to the debate on shiftwork at TUC Women’s Conference 2022. Read the text here.
At this year’s TUC Women’s Conference, one of the motions we debated was about working shifts, particularly women’s safety on late shifts. This was my contribution to the debate. You can watch the video of this speech here. I’m Janine … Read more
Janine contributes poetry to this online event. More info from [email protected]
Janine’s annual poetic appearance at the awesome Ealing TUC event, this year on Zoom.
after Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley I met a bruised and smiling activist, elated, vindicated in their deed, who’d tossed into the harbour’s swell at Bristol the form of Portland stone to fishes feed Of one whose eight-foot statue’d … Read more
– report by Janine Booth, RMT nominee on the Committee Flexible working and reasonable adjustments The TUC has been advocating what it calls ‘flexible working as a reasonable adjustment’ for disabled workers. What it means by this is the right … Read more
An assessment of trade unions as drivers of positive change for autistic people at work, written as an assignment for Postgraduate Certificate in Autism and Asperger Syndrome [Note: this is not advocating a union for autistic workers, but assessing the potential … Read more
Teacing union NASUWT hosts an online workshop for Disability History Month, with two 45-minute sessions on: Disability History and Ableism – run by Kat Downs An Introduction to Neurodiversity – run by Janine Booth Details and registration here.
The union’s new 3-day course on Neurodiversity in the Workplace will run on 10-12 September at the National Education Centre. ‘Neurodiversity’ means that different people have different brain wiring. Unfortunately, those with a minority brain wiring – such as dyslexic, … Read more