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This is the twitter account for the Scottish Trade Union Congress Disabled Workers' Committee. We are keen to improve working conditions and accessibility.

Scotland
Joined March 2016
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If you're not pissed off by the way we #disabled people have been ignored, put in danger, and gaslit for the last two years, you're not paying attention. #BorisJohnsonOut
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If anyone wants to have a final check of party manifestos today before voting, @InclusionScot can point you to the #EasyRead versions in the quoted tweet. #GeneralElection2024
👇 Easy Read Party Manifestos available as of 2nd July 2024: ✅ Labour Party: Yes lnkd.in/eAphUhRH ✅ Conservatives: Yes lnkd.in/eUWcmwzg ✅ Liberal Democrats: Yes lnkd.in/evsxs-qh ✅ Green Party: Yes lnkd.in/eP2DAmHZ
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Use less violent language, @ScotTories, that's disgusting.
🗳 The polls are open 🗳 Let's get out there and hammer the SNP 🔨 In key seats across the country, only a vote for the @ScotTories can stop them.
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Happy Voting Day! If you've already voted, in person or by post, thank you 😊 Let get the vote out for #DisabilityRights #GE2024
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ScottishWorkers retweeted
🏇Never mind betting at the bookies, the politicians should instead take a punt on us – Scotland’s workers. Read STUC General Secretary @RozFoyer in her weekly @heraldscotland column. #GeneralElection2024
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And last but not least, a very recent achievement... Andrew, has graduated with a First-Class Honours degree in English and Creative Writing! We are all so excited to see Andrew excel in his future career.🌟 #DeafblindAwarenessWeek #RightToBeSeenAndHeard
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There's less than a week left to ask your parliamentary candidates to defend vital support for seriously ill and disabled people. Take action today👇 z2k.eaction.org.uk/defend-vi…
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We sent the #DisabilityScorecard to 13 political parties. Each party was asked 5 yes/no questions on 10 topics based on the #DisabledPeoplesManifesto. Only 3 parties replied. For full analysis, check out the link below: disabledpeoplesmanifesto.com…
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Do you know what would be lovely? If political parties bothered to #AltText their images so that us #blind people could be included too. Alt Text isn't difficult- describe the picture, name the people in the photo, transcribe the written information.
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ScottishWorkers retweeted
Do you know the policies of different political parties on supporting unpaid carers?
28%Yes, very aware
29%Somewhat aware
16%Not very aware
28%Not aware at all
69 votes • Final results
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Julie Ferguson, highlights how deafblindness shapes her identity. Yet, in Scotland, there’s no option to identify as deafblind. Learn more about our campaign to change this📝 dbscotland.org.uk/defining-d… #DefiningDeafblindness
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ScottishWorkers retweeted
This week is #DeafblindAwarenessWeek. However, Scotland lacks a formal definition of Deafblindness. We support @DBScotland's definition of Deafblindness - can you? Find out more here: dbscotland.org.uk/defining-d… #ScottishSensoryHub #DefiningDeafblindness #RightToBeSeenAndHeard
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A fantastic event, supporting people who are #DeafBlind #DefiningDeafblindness #DeafBlindAw
Our ‘Seen and Heard: Recognising and Defining Deafblindness’ event at the Scottish Parliament was a success! Thank you to all of our speakers! And a special thank you to everyone who attended the event, we really appreciate all the support. #DefiningDeafblindness
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I'm actually #deafblind so it took over two hours to realise that one of my hashtags is wrong! LOL #DeafBlindAwarenessWeek
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ScottishWorkers retweeted
The second workshop on offer at our Disabled Workers Conference today was run by Let's Be Heard, who are part of @covidinquirysco #STUCDWC23
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ScottishWorkers retweeted
Gary Clark ⁦@CWUnews⁩ retired now promoting ⁦@StammeringUnion⁩ Guest speaker telling #stucdwc23 about the organisation and saying it’s now time for me to give something back to disabled workers. ⁦@CwuScotlandNo2⁩ ⁦@cwu_scotland⁩
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ScottishWorkers retweeted
This afternoon at our Disabled Workers Conference Julie from @EISUnion led the workshop on reasonable adjustments. The aim of the workshop was to collect ideas to create a toolkit for union reps to use in the workplace #stucdwc23
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Scotland President Linda Gibson proposing Motion 10 Clean Air #stucdwc23 No one should be harmed by the air they breathe!
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Afifa Khanam proposing Motion 9 on Sick Pay and Disabled Workers. The pandemic shone a light on the inadequacy of statutory and contractual sick pay provisions: as a result of Long Covid, many more employees are unfit for work for over 12 months. #stucdwc23
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