Disability Labour

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Disability Labour
Formation1996;29 years ago (1996) [1]
Headquarters London, England
Location
  • United Kingdom
Membership1,300 (according to email from organisation) (2021)
Chair
  • Kathy Bole
Affiliations Labour Party
Website disabilitylabour.org.uk

Disability Labour is a socialist society associated with the UK Labour Party. [1] [2] Disability Labour seeks to represent and support disabled Labour members and supporters. [3] They are an independent policy-making group on disability with further "aims to support and develop disabled party members to serve as policymakers, ministers and elected officials". [4]

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Membership

Group membership is free to disabled Labour members and their carers. [5]

Individual, CLP, and trade union affiliation is offered with Unison an example of a trade union affiliate to Disability Labour. [6]

History

2015

In 2015, Disability Labour was relaunched - announced in the 2015 Labour Party conference. [7]

2018

In 2018 the executive committee of Disability Labour was widely replaced with members from the Disability Equality Act Labour (DEAL) campaign group after tensions over the previous executive committee. [8]

The same year also saw the co-chair Fran Springfield criticising the UK's Department for Work and Pensions endorsement of Purple Tuesday, [9] a disability-awareness day for retail establishments, for fears it would lead to greater discrimination. [10]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Labour Leadership: Who Are the Party's Affiliate Groups Backing?". BBC News. 17 February 2020. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  2. ↑ "Socialist Societies". Labour Party. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  3. ↑ "Trade Unions and Affiliates". Campaign for Socialism. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  4. ↑ Waltz, Mitzi; Schippers, Alice (2020). "Politically Disabled: Barriers and Facilitating Factors Affecting People with Disabilities in Political Life Within the European Union". Disability & Society: 16. doi: 10.1080/09687599.2020.1751075 . ISSN   0968-7599.
  5. ↑ "Welcome". Disability Labour. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  6. ↑ "Breaking Down Barriers: National Disabled Members' Annual Report 2019" (PDF). London: Unison. September 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  7. ↑ "The Labour Party Conference: What's Being Said About Disability?". Livability. 23 September 2014. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  8. ↑ Pring, John (13 September 2018). "Disability Labour Set for Fresh Start After Angry Scenes at AGM". Disability News Service. ISSN   2398-8924 . Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  9. ↑ "Frequently Asked Questions". Purple Tuesday. Purple. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  10. ↑ Topple, Steve (12 November 2018). "The DWP Is Under Fire for 'Selling Out' Disabled People to Corporations". The Canary. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
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