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9 March 2011
TUC must address demo access issue
FOLLOWING INITIAL reports in February that coaches bringing demonstrators to the Trades Union Congress 'March for the Alternative' on 26 March would not be allowed into central London, disability rights group Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) wrote to the TUC raising concerns about disability access, writes a Unison member.
Remploy workers rally against closure threat in 2007, photo Bob Severn
18 February 2011
Disabled factory workers at Remploy, the government funded manufacturing company, are considering taking strike action to defend their jobs. An edited version of this article appeared in The Socialist newspaper.
2 February 2011
Stop attacks on disabled claimants
Defend the right to protest: on 24 January police 'kettled' a peaceful demonstration outside the central London headquarters of Atos Origin, writes By a Unison member.
8 December 2010
Don't let profit become the bottom line in care
FOLLOWING A BBC South 'Inside Out' programme in October that showed the moment in January 2009 when a nurse switched off a ventilator that led to a disabled man being permanently brain-damaged, film of the incident went 'viral' on the internet, a Unison member writes.
Kettled students protesting against massive fees rise and the abolition of the EMA, photo Suzanne Beishon
8 December 2010
Council cuts put most vulnerable at risk: The Tory/Liberal-led Birmingham council is preparing to trim £300 million from its budget by 2014 by cutting 10,000 jobs and devastating services, a Unison member writes.
Disabled people protest against cuts, photo S Civi
11 November 2010
Attacks on disabled people's rights
A recent Observer exposé of the implications of Con-Dem cuts on one London borough described a nightmare scenario...
27 October 2010
Axeman Osborne slashes disabled people's benefits
WHEN GEORGE Osborne announced £11 billion cuts to welfare spending in June's budget, disabled people and their families were shocked...
18 August 2010
Cuts devastate mental health services
Community mental health care bosses in Southwark, south London, aim to save £3.7 million in two years, a mental health worker writes.
7 July 2010
Cuts to disability benefits will increase misery
In the short time since the Tory/Liberal budget, the full realisation of what these vicious cuts will mean is dawning on disabled and older people and family carers...
21 April 2010
National Care Service - fact or fiction?
MOST RESEARCH suggests that the general population is living longer. Advances in science and healthcare mean that more conditions are treatable and many people with previously life-threatening conditions...
4 November 2009
Trade unionists must fight for decent benefits for all
Sick and disabled under attack: THE PRO-big business parties, New Labour, Tories and LibDems, vied with each other at their party conferences with zealous plans to make the working class pay for the economic and financial crisis, writes Jim Horton, welfare rights adviser, north London.
Care workers protest at privatisation in Waltham Forest, photo Alison Hill
7 October 2009
Cuts, outsourcing and privatisation mean vulnerable adults and children are 'falling through the net'. Social care staff are struggling to cope with high caseloads, increasing red tape and worsening pay, terms and conditions at work.
Paul Couchman, a social care worker and branch secretary of Surrey County Unison writing in a personal capacity, analyses what is going on.
19 November 2008
POST OFFICE campaigners in Stroud, Gloucestershire were celebrating the reopening of Uplands post office, despite the best efforts of the government and Post Office Ltd to close it, writes Chris Moore, Gloucestershire Save Our Post Offices.
22 July 2008
Punishing the jobless for being jobless
Work and pensions secretary, James Purnell, has announced a major attack on benefits claimants in his new welfare green paper. His claim that the changes will "transform lives" will be borne out, but disgracefully it will be in a transformation for for the worse...
14 February 2008
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Picket of Tory MP Ann Widdecombe's anti-abortion meeting 6 February 2008, photo Paul Mattsson |
23 January 2008
Post office campaign: Changes in the law to break the poor
Life will be made much harder for many elderly and disabled people with the planned closures of around 2,500 post offices across the country this year... By Jon Dale
14 November 2007
BEFORE THE election that never was, back in September, employment minister Peter Hain backed down on the closure of 43 Remploy factories... By Mariam Kamish
4 October 2007
Remploy workers win partial victory
Remploy workers won a very important partial victory from the government at Labour Party conference... By Mariam Kamish
20 September 2007
Remploy workers fight for jobs
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Remploy workers rally against closure threat, photo Chris Moore |
9 August 2007
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Geoff Wright, campaigning in Leicester against health cuts affecting people with mobility problems |
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