Work - Janine Booth

Labour Party ward meeting debate: Renationalise the railways?

Janine will be debating James Abbott, editor of railway journal “Modern Railways”, at this meeting fro members of the Labour Party in Leabridge ward. Venue: St John Ambulance Hall, 1a Mildenhall Road, E5 0RU

Autism in the Workplace Training: Midlands RMT

A one-day training day for RMT trade union representatives about autism in the workplace, to be held in Birmingham. for more information, email me.

Video: British Work for British Hands

How workplaces can create difficulties for autistic workers

From the TUC handbook, Autism in the Workplace Workplaces and employers make work difficult for autistic workers for the following reasons: Discrimination: Treating the autistic worker differently from, less favourably than, others. Bullying by management, including ridicule and physical/ verbal abuse. Lack … Read More

Women in the Present

The second section of the Workers’ Liberty pamphlet ‘Comrades and Sisters’ looks at women’s situation today. Domestic work, (badly-)paid work, the vast gulf between working-class and ruling-class women. Women in communities, and women in the welfare state. Religious fundamentalism, the … Read More

Speaking Out about Autism at Work

This is the speech I gave at TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference 2013 in proposing RMT’s resolution on Autism in the Workplace. Andrew Beck has Asperger syndrome, an autistic spectrum condition. He was a golf club greenkeeper for 13 years with … Read More

‘British Work for British Hands’

Seeing this Conservative candiddate’s advert in a 1910 issue of the East London Advertiser, it struck me that the ‘British jobs for British workers’ slogan of a couple of years ago was neither new nor left-wing. ‘British work for British … Read More