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Everyday ableism
Onlinehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qphshQEzmg Ableism is discrimination in favour of non-disabled people. It is based on an assumption that the physical, cognitive and sensory differences with which disabled people live with are deficits, and it is rooted in the medical model of disability that assumes that disabled people need to be 'fixed'. It is manifest in physical, environmental
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Day of action: organising disabled workers
OnlineRegister here Covid-19 has disproportionately impacted on disabled workers from being denied reasonable adjustments to being the first to be made redundant and in line with our theme for this year 'organising for disabled workers', we would like to invite you to be a contributor to this important and timely discussion. To mark UCU's third
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PGRs as staff – not students
OnlineUCU has adopted a policy to campaign for postgraduate researchers (PGRs) to be recognised as members of staff. This webinar discussed this campaign and heard from sister union SULF, who are based in Sweden, and who were successful in campaigning for PGRs to be treated as employees.