Disability Labour is a socialist societyassociated 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]
Membership
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 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]