Disabled Members’ Council calls for #InclusivePressAccess to the general election campaign
The union is calling on political parties to make their press events and campaign activities accessible to disabled journalists.
The NUJ Disabled Members' Council welcomes new BBC guidance on accessible images
The guidance launched by the BBC outlines how to make images and visual data accessible, especially for people who use screen readers to access information online.
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.
IPSO must act on negative narratives about disabled people and welfare recipients
The union’s Ethics and Disabled Members councils have urged the regulator to insist on ethical reporting.
NUJ Disabled Members’ Council statement on representation of disabled people in the media
The DMC has called on the media industry to take action to address unethical reporting on disability issues
DM2023: equality
Discrimination and prejudice in the workplace needs to be called out and robust polices put in place, conference agreed.
TUC Disabled Workers' Conference 2022
NUJ delegates joined trade union colleagues to set the agenda to secure decent working opportunities for disabled workers.
TUC calls for long Covid to be recognised as a disability
The condition needs to recognised as an occupational disease, to give workers access to legal protections and compensation.
Six in 10 Covid-19 deaths have been disabled people
Disabled workers have found themselves on the pandemic’s brutal frontline, Frances O’Grady, TUC general secretary, told the Disabled Workers’ Conference.
