STUC Disabled Workers’ Committee

The STUC Disabled Workers’ Committee was formed in 2004. The Disabled Workers’ Committee comprises up to 13 members and is accountable to the Annual Disabled Workers’ Conference of the STUC as a whole. The General Council appoints 2 representatives from its Committee to sit on the Disabled Workers’ Committee.

The STUC’s work in relation to disabled people is carried out by the STUC Disabled Workers’ Committee, which is elected at the Annual STUC Disabled Workers’ Conference. This Annual Conference allows disabled people to set a programme of work for the Disabled Workers’ Committee to take forward, relating to a wide range of relevant issues. Disabled people’s issues are also mainstreamed into the wider work of the STUC through the existence of Disabled Workers’ Seats on the STUC General Council.

STUC Disabled Workers’ Committee Members for 2019 / 2020

Chair: Julie Ferguson, Educational Institute of Scotland

Vice-Chair: Tony Slaven, Unison

Margaret Anslow, Unite the Union

Margaret Boyd, GMB Scotland

Pat Duffy, GMB Scotland

Barbra Farmer, Public & Commercial Services Union

Linda Ford, Prospect

Margaret Gilmurray, Unison

Robert Mooney, Community

Sharon Sweeney, University and College Union

Steve West, Edinburgh Trades Union Council

Irene Trench, Unite the Union

Tony Sneddon, Communication Workers’ Union

Committees Priorities

• To build effective relationships with government and agencies to promote the rights of disabled people within and outwith the workplace;
• To campaign against discrimination of disabled people and for genuine opportunity of employment for the disabled; and
• To build capacity to ensure that unions work for disabled people

For more information contact Yvonne Stewart, STUC Assistant General Secretary, at ystewart@stuc.org.uk or Shona Scott, STUC Events and Communications Team, at sscott@stuc.org.uk