NUJ statement – reporting on assisted dying legislation
Delegates at DM2025 passed a resolution to produce guidance to support members with reporting on legislation in connection with assisted dying.
UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities raises welfare proposals with UK government.
The committee has asked a series of questions about the Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill and associated proposals in the Green Paper “Pathways to Work."
Equal pay and the gender pay gap
A yawning gender pay gap favouring men has been revealed in recent years by media companies forced to publish data under new regulations.
NUJ Disabled Members’ Council endorses UN criticism of UK human rights failures
The council responds to the "damning" UN Committee's rights of disabled people report
Time to introduce mandatory disability pay gap reporting, says TUC
New Equality and Human Rights Commission report reveals disabled people continue to be at high risk of poverty.
Action needed to close 17.2 per cent disability pay gap
NUJ joins the TUC in marking Disability Pay Gap Day and calling for action to address the disability pay and employment gaps.
Disabled workers face “living standards emergency”
Latest Office of National Statistics figures show disabled workers now earn on average £1.93 per hour less than non-disabled employees.
TUC Disabled Workers' Conference 2022
NUJ delegates joined trade union colleagues to set the agenda to secure decent working opportunities for disabled workers.
Employers must turn their “ambitions” into real improvements for disabled workers
The NUJ called for the TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference to hold “employers’ feet to the fire”.
Disability History Month
Meet the NUJ’s Disabled Members' Council and take part in a host of TUC webinars to discuss the key workplace issues affecting disabled workers.
Unions can help broadcasters reverse their “woeful” record on diversity
More women are leaving broadcasting than joining and the representation of disabled people and diversity in senior positions is woeful, according to the UK’s industry watchdog Ofcom.
Ministers have missed chance to help disabled workers, says TUC
The government has failed to act on the disability pay gap and rights on reasonable adjustments.
TUC report finds seven in 10 disabled women say they have been sexually harassed at work
A survey found 68 per cent had been harassed, with one in eight leaving their jobs because of this.
NUJ statement on the Welsh Government Locked Out report about the impact of Covid-19 on disabled people
The Equality Council calls for scrutiny of the evidence that 68 per cent of Covid-19 related deaths comprised disabled people.
Locked out: liberating disabled people’s lives and rights in Wales beyond COVID-19
This report is about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on disabled people.
NUJ backs the TUC's concerns over end of shielding
Union’s Disabled Members’ Council calls the UK’s government's decision a sick April Fool’s joke.
International Day of People with Disabilities
Today is the time to reflect on the lives lost to Covid-19 among disabled people and look at how the trade union movement is supporting disabled workers during the pandemic.
TUC calls on government to implement Equality Act in full
On the law's 10th anniversary, the TUC says the full powers of the act have still not been implemented as Covid-19 has deepened inequality and discrimination at work.
NUJ guidance – Covid-19 Health, safety, wellbeing & work
Health and Safety Committee notes for members, reps, chapels and branches.
Mental Health Awareness Week 2020
This year’s mental health awareness week (18-24 May) finds us in strange and difficult times – in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
