‘ We want workplaces to thrive – the Tories want to curtail unions ’

“We want our workplaces to thrive. A Tory government wants to curtail trade union action even more, claiming that they’re run by trade union ‘barons’ rather than the democratic processes we go through – and this from a government that is on its second unelected prime minister in two months.” Vicky Foxcroft, Labour’s shadow minister for disabled people, was addressing UNISON’s national disabled members’ conference in Brighton this afternoon, and noted that, disabled people are so important to this latest version of a Tory government that “we don’t know who the new minister [for disabled people] is”. It was, she said, indicative of the contempt in which the Conservatives holds the disabled community. She also cited the example of the COVID pandemic, where the government’s daily news conferences never had a BSL signer for Deaf viewers. Ms Foxcroft asked then prime mister Boris Johnson after this three times – the third, doing so in sign language to indicate what a lack of signing means for Deaf people – but nothing was ever done to address the issue. Instead, she said, the government wanted to set “migrant against migrant, worker against worker, young against old and sadly, disabled person against disabled person.” Labour in office will face problems “after the government has tanked the economy,” she said. They party might not be able to everything it wants to, overnight, but it has to start the progress. Repeating the pledges of Labour lead...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - Category: Food Science Authors: Tags: Article News 2022 National Disabled Members Conference Vicky Foxcroft Source Type: news