Motion
- Motion title
- Defending the rights of disabled people
- Session
- 2010-2011
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 30 May 2011
- Status
- Passed unanimously
- Motion
- 74
- Motion text
Congress deplores the way disabled people are often portrayed as 'slackers' in the media. Congress believes that this view is being exploited by the coalition government to cut disability benefits, including the Disability Living Allowance and Access to Work hence excluding many disabled people from the work force. This conflicts directly with the Government's policy to get disabled people into or staying in work. Attacking benefits that support disabled people at work will increase marginalisation and social exclusion. The coalition Government is forcing disabled people out of the mainstream of our society and leaves them vulnerable not only financially but in their communities.
Congress calls upon the NEC to:
1. develop a campaign to ensure that disabled people's employment rights are protected and enforced
2. work with a coalition of trade unions and disabled people's organisations to defend disability benefits and the civil rights of disabled people.
- Proposing body
- Disabled members' standing committee (DMSC)
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Equality committee
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2011/C/05-30/164/74