Disability Labour
{{Short description|Socialist society associated with the UK Labour Party}}
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| headquarters = London, England
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| membership = 1300 (according to email from organisation)
| leader_title = Chair
| leader_name = {{hlist | Kathy Bole | | style = white-space: nowrap}}
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| website = {{URL|https://disabilitylabour.org.uk}}
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Disability Labour is a socialist society associated with the UK Labour Party.{{cite web |title=Socialist Societies |url=https://labour.org.uk/people/societies/ |publisher=Labour Party |access-date=2020-11-03}} Disability Labour seeks to represent and support disabled Labour members and supporters.{{cite web |title=Trade Unions and Affiliates |url=http://www.campaignforsocialism.org.uk/trade-unions-and-affiliates |publisher=Campaign for Socialism |access-date=2020-11-03}} 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".{{cite journal |last1=Waltz |first1=Mitzi |last2=Schippers |first2=Alice |year=2020 |title=Politically Disabled: Barriers and Facilitating Factors Affecting People with Disabilities in Political Life Within the European Union |journal=Disability & Society |page=16 |doi=10.1080/09687599.2020.1751075 |doi-access=free |issn=0968-7599}}
Membership
Group membership is free to disabled Labour members and their carers.{{cite web|title=Welcome |url=https://disabilitylabour.org.uk/ |publisher=Disability Labour |access-date=2020-11-03}}
Individual, CLP, and trade union affiliation is offered with Unison an example of a trade union affiliate to Disability Labour.{{cite web |date=September 2019 |title=Breaking Down Barriers: National Disabled Members' Annual Report 2019 |url=https://www.unison.org.uk/content/uploads/2019/09/25823.pdf |location=London |publisher=Unison |access-date=3 November 2020}}
History
= 2015 =
In 2015, Disability Labour was relaunched - announced in the 2015 Labour Party conference.{{cite web |date=2014-09-23 |title=The Labour Party Conference: What's Being Said About Disability? |url=https://www.livability.org.uk/blog/campaigning/the-labour-party-conference-whats-being-said-about-disability/ |publisher=Livability |access-date=2020-11-03}}
= 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.{{cite web |last=Pring |first=John |date=2018-09-13 |title=Disability Labour Set for Fresh Start After Angry Scenes at AGM |url=https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disability-labour-set-for-fresh-start-after-angry-scenes-at-agm/ |website=Disability News Service |issn=2398-8924 |access-date=2020-11-03}}
The same year also saw the co-chair Fran Springfield criticising the UK's Department for Work and Pensions endorsement of Purple Tuesday,{{Cite web |title=Frequently Asked Questions |url=https://purpletuesday.org.uk/faqs/ |website=Purple Tuesday |publisher=Purple |access-date=2020-11-03}} a disability-awareness day for retail establishments, for fears it would lead to greater discrimination.{{cite web |last=Topple |first=Steve |date=2018-11-12 |title=The DWP Is Under Fire for 'Selling Out' Disabled People to Corporations |url=https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2018/11/12/the-dwp-is-under-fire-for-selling-out-disabled-people-to-corporations/ |website=The Canary |access-date=2020-11-03}}
See also
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://disabilitylabour.org.uk}}
- [https://www.facebook.com/DisabilityLabourParty/ Disability Labour on Facebook]
- [https://mobile.twitter.com/DisabilityLab Disability Labour on Twitter]
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Category:Health and disability rights organisations in the United Kingdom