#stuc19 Congress slammed employers who shamefully ill-treat terminally ill workers and called for all employers to sign up to the
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Employers must change attitudes to end the disability employment gap
#stuc19 Employers’ attitudes to the employment of disabled people must shift fundamentally said Congress, as it pledged to drive an
Read moreDisabled Members’ newsletter winter 2018
About the Scottish Disabled Members’ Group and Committee What we did in 2018 STUC ‘Unions into Schools’ Programme “IN THE SPOTLIGHT”
Read moreSTUC needs your views on hate crime law
The Scottish Government is currently consulting on hate crime legislation. Across the STUC’s equality structures trade union members have raised
Read moreUNISON calls for zero tolerance on bullying and harassment
Delegates at Local Government Conference heard harrowing accounts of bullying at work from a range of members and activists and
Read moreAct to end barriers to work for people with disabilities
#stuc2017 Congress backed urgent action to support disabled people into work, amidst serious concerns that less than 50% of people
Read moreCampaign to end VAT on food for guide dogs
#stuc2017 The STUC will campaign to extend the VAT exemption on ‘working’ dog food to guide dogs for the blind
Read moreScottish Disabled Members AGM 2016
SCOTTISH DISABLED MEMBERS’ GROUP: ANNUAL MEETING SATURDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2016 UNISON SOUTH LANARKSHIRE BRANCH, 23 BECKFORD STREET, HAMILTON ML3 0BT
Read moreDisabled workers rights must be protected and improved
#ulgc16 Aberdeen City’s Deirdre Macdonald, in her maiden speech to conference, pledged to go back to her branch and work
Read moreIncapability must not be used to sack workers
#ulgc16 Conference condemned the growing use of Incapability Procedures to sack staff on the grounds of ill-health or performance, as
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