UCU: Disabled people and welfare reform

Motion

Motion text: Congress notes:
that disabled people are amongst the first casualties of the current economic crisis.
this government's decision to coerce over a million disabled people into low paid, casualised work.
Congress deplores the government's welfare reform agenda including the transfer of Job Centre plus employment services for disabled people to private, third sector and faith-based organisations, savage cuts in the Independent Living Fund and the continuing threat to remove Access to Work from disabled people working in the public sector.
Congress resolves to:
a) continue our campaign against the privatisation of public services, including initiatives to support disabled people into work
b) support the TUC lobby of Parliament to protect Access to Work
c) press the Government to restore the entitlement to ILF funding to all disabled people.
d) support local and national campaigns to oppose attacks on services to disabled people.