Formation | 1996[1] |
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Headquarters | London, England |
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Membership (2021) | 1300 (according to email from organisation) |
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Affiliations | Labour Party |
Website |
disabilitylabour |
Disability Labour is a socialist society associated with the UK Labour Party. [1] [2] Disability Labour seeks to represent and support disabled Labour members and supporters. [3] They are an independent policy-making group on disability with further "aims to support and develop disabled party members to serve as policymakers, ministers and elected officials". [4]
Group membership is free to disabled Labour members and their carers. [5]
Individual, CLP, and trade union affiliation is offered with Unison an example of a trade union affiliate to Disability Labour. [6]
In 2015, Disability Labour was relaunched - announced in the 2015 Labour Party conference. [7]
In 2018 the executive committee of Disability Labour was widely replaced with members from the Disability Equality Act Labour (DEAL) campaign group after tensions over the previous executive committee. [8]
The same year also saw the co-chair Fran Springfield criticising the UK's Department for Work and Pensions endorsement of Purple Tuesday, [9] a disability-awareness day for retail establishments, for fears it would lead to greater discrimination. [10]