TUC Disabled Workers’ Committee meeting
At Congress House, London
Issues and campaigns: RMT Disabled Members
Janine was the founding Chair, and later Secretary, of transport trade union RMT’s Disabled Members’ Advisory Committee.
RMT Neurodiversity in the Workplace training course
This course introduces you to the Neurodiversity approach, accepting and embracing that different people have differently-wired brains! It equips you as a union activist with the knowledge skills and belligerent attitude you need in order to fight for inclusive, neurodiversity-friendly … Read more
Cancer in the Workplace training, RMT
Venue: RMT National Education Centre, Doncaster RMT reps and activists can register for this course via their branch or the members’ section of the union’s website.
RMT Neurodiversity in the Workplace training
This course introduces you to the Neurodiversity approach, accepting and embracing that different people have differently-wired brains! It equips you as a union activist with the knowledge skills and belligerent attitude you need in order to fight for inclusive, neurodiversity-friendly … Read more
Disabled People for Free Trade Unions: TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference Fringe Meeting 2022
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
Online workshop: Transforming Unions to Represent the Neurodivergent workforce
Janine will be a key note speaker and workshop leader. Organised by The Centre for Employment, Work and the Professions (CREWS) at Heriot-Watt. Details and registration here. What is the workshop about? The workshop aims to address the challenges faced by UK … Read more
CWU Autism in the Workplace Training
Online course.
RMT training: Neurodiversity in the Workplace
This three-day residential course takes place at the Bob Crow National Education Centre and is open to all RMT members. If you wish to attend, please contact your branch secretary.
Autism in the Workplace training: Leeds NEU
Teaching educators about autism as a trade union issue! Part of a training day organised by Leeds branch of the National Education Union.
TUC Disabled Workers statement on Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill and Elections Bill
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
TUC Disabled Workers Condemn P&O Sackings
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
Accessibility As Standard Not ‘As Required’
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
Accessibility As Standard, Not ‘As Required’
Janine speaks in an online panel event which is part of TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference but open to all. Register here. Speakers: Janine Booth, Disabled Workers Committee Member from RMT and RMT Disabled Members Advisory Committee Secretary Angela Montgomery, Unite … Read more
Disabled People for Free Trade Unions
Fringe meeting on anti-union laws at TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference (which is held online) hosted by RMT and Free Our Unions Chair: Sarah Woolley, General Secretary, Bakers’ Union Speakers: Janine Booth, Secretary, RMT Disabled Members’ Advisory Committee John McDonnell MP … Read more
TUC Disabled Workers Committee, 16 December 2021
– 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
RMT Mental Health training
This course will now take place online. A week-long course for RMT reps and members about mental health in the workplace at the union’s National Education Centre in Doncaster. Register via the union’s website or your branch secretary.
Report: TUC Disabled Workers’ Committee, 14 October 2021
This was the first full meeting of the committee elected in March. It elected Dave Allan as chair (a formality as he is the disabled workers’ representative on the TUC General Council); and Annie Galpin as co-chair. Implementing Disabled Workers’ … Read more
Speaking about Violence against Women to European Transport Trade Unionists
Janine will speak about trade union campaigns against violence against women on London Underground at a two-day conference (hybrid: in Brussels and online) organised by the European Transport workers’ Federation’s women’s committee.
RMT Members Help Win Justice for Osime
Published in RMT News, July/August 2021 RMT members have helped to win justice for Osime Brown, a young, black, autistic, learning-disabled man. The union saw this as an issue that deserved our support and solidarity. Janine Booth, Secretary of RMT’s Disabled Members’ … Read more
PCS Online Neurodiversity in the Workplace Stage 2 training
PCS members who have completed the Stage 1 course will be invited to join this course, tutored by Janine.