The Newcastle Conference
Workshop 1 - campaigning at work
1. What are the key disability issues at your workplace?
- Lack of monitoring of the two ticks symbol
- Lack of understanding and awareness
- Disabled people feeling insecure at work
- Employers belief of cost
2. As an Amicus Disability Champion @ Work, how could campaigning on these issues attract new members to join the union?
- Someone available to speak about issues
- Promotional tool, proves we are a campaigning union
- Working in partnership is a plus (employer-employee-union)
- Educational
3. There are 10 golden rules for Amicus Disability @ Work Champions; here are 2 of them.
An Amicus Disability Champion @ Work:
- will use the structures to influence policy on disability issues.
- will be active campaigners
How would you make these rules happen in practice?
- Find out what the employer has in place
- Hold joint management/staff meetings
- Talk to members
- Internal publicity / web / hard copy
- Motions through the structures of the union
- Networking
- Seek employers support for campaigning
4. To conclude, each of you think of a different word to define an Amicus Disability Champion @ Work.