Discrimination against disabled workers continues, and RMT is organising to oppose it
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We held a minute’s silence for people affected by Covid-19.
Updates on previous resolutions:
1. DISABLED MEMBERS IN SCOTLAND
2. REFLECTION ROOMS
3. DISABLED PASSENGERS AND TIMETABLE CHANGES
4. CENTENARY OF THE BLIND PEOPLE'S MARCH
5. CONFERENCE CHAIR'S EXPENSES
6. COVID-19, DISABLED MEMBERS AND CARERS
7. ONLINE TRAINING ON DISABILITY
1. DISABLED MEMBERS IN SCOTLAND
TfL’s Diversity and Inclusion team held an online meeting on 20 May. This was not a form Equality, Diversity and Inclusion forum, and included various participants as well as D&I management and trade unions.
RMT London Transport Regional Council Disabled Members Covid-19 Bulletin no.4 – 19 May 2020
This is attached as a printable .docx and .pdf file.
The Advisory, Conciliatory and Arbitration Service (ACAS) makes clear that the law requires your employer not to discriminate against disabled workers by trying to unreasonably pressure you to return to work, or by unreasonably disciplining you for not going to work.
Dear Colleague,
OSIME BROWN: URGENT ACTION
The union is supporting the campaign to stop the deportation of Osime Brown, a 21-year-old, black, autistic, learning-disabled man imprisoned on a 'joint enterprise' conviction for being present when a mobile phone was stolen. Osime has been given a date of 7 October for his release from prison into the custody of the immigration service in preparation for his deportation to Jamaica. We have to act urgently.
Seven resolutions were passed on from DMAC to the NEC from their last meeting (you can read them here). The following reports from the Equal Rights Sub-Committee were noted and adopted by the National Executive Committee (24th July 2020):
DISABLED MEMBERS IN SCOTLAND
On 3 April (his last day as Shadow Chancellor), John McDonnell MP spoke to our online disabled members' meet-up about the politics of the Covid-19 crisis.
RMT London Transport Regional Council Disabled Members Covid-19 Bulletin no.3 – 26 March 2020
Also attached as PDF and Word files.
Government advice is for people considered to be ‘extremely vulnerable’ to Covid-19 to ‘shield’ (stay at home with no contact with anyone other than carers) for twelve weeks. The government specifies that this group includes:
1. Solid organ transplant recipients.
2. People with specific cancers: