Disability Union ‘will build power and a national voice for disabled people’

A man in a white dress shirt with a red tie sitting at a clear table with a joystick in his hands, in front of a banner reading, “The Disability Union.” Photo from Disability News Service

A new independent user-led organization – modeled on a trade union – is hoping to provide disabled people with a collective voice powerful enough to influence policy at a national level, while also offering them solutions to their disability-related problems.

The Disability Union, which launches officially on Monday, will concentrate at first on providing a problem-solving service for disabled members who face issues in areas such as housing, benefits or social care.

But the hope is that the union will eventually provide an “authoritative voice” for disabled people that is capable of influencing policy-making at a local, regional and national level.

 

Source: https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disability-union-will-build-power-and-a-national-voice-for-disabled-people/?fbclid=IwAR3SPx8DaWt19OygXTSiVgGuoRgMDifzH-fnhju5N_ChHlc2XyK9IOpccGY

 

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