TUC Disabled Workers’ Committee meeting
At Congress House, London
Issues and campaigns: RMT
The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (UK). I have been a member since 1997, and served on the union’s national executive 2011-13.
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
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
Be Reasonable
We’d like you to strike when it doesn’t disrupt us when it won’t interrupt us going about our daily life We’d like you to strike when it won’t cause strife when no-one will notice Please don’t misquote us Of course … 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
End of the Line
Walk down locked and empty streets alone, arrive for start of shift, it’s bear-the-brunt time to serve some others’ families not your own Going from the home front to the frontline Frozen pay, now tiny, ice-cold ‘offers’, red-bordered bills alert … 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.
Summertime
after Gershwin’s song from Porgy and Bess — Summertime and the cost of livin’ ain’t easy Bills are jumpin’ and prices are high Oh, the bosses are rich and the workers are strugglin’ But hush, little baby don’t you cry … Read more
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.
Clerihew: Andrew Haines
Andrew Haines carefully explains That his £593,000 pay is not a perk – He really is worth twenty of the people who do the actual work — *Chief Executive Officer of Network Rail
Clerihew: Jeremy Westlake
Jeremy Westlake has the second best take He’s in charge of the cash and makes sure he gets a big stash
Poeting on the Picket Line: The Eleventh Commandment
‘The Eleventh Commandment’ at a flash rally in support of RMT rail strikes, Brighton, 25 June 2022.
Clerihew: Grant Shapps
Grant Shapps He talks and he craps But often gets confused About which end he’s used
Why You Don’t Deserve a Pay Rise
A poem about this Nicky from Network Rail says that to get work and not fail to make yourself a mint, not be skint – come on, take the hint – You should have worked harder at school, mastered … Read more
Poetry & Opposition
Pompous & Opulent Prosperous & Ostentatious Profiteering & On-the-take Parsimonious & Obstinate Penny-pinching & ‘Orrible Private & Obscene Perfidious & Odious Poisonous & Objectionable Punishing & Oppressive Petition & Organise Protest & Outrage Picket & Occupy Public & Ownership.
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