Our Components’ Workers with Disability Committees sites
- BCGEU Equity and Human Rights Committee
- HSABC Members with Disabilities Committee
- SGEU Human Rights and Equity Committee
- OPSEU/SEFPO Disability Rights Caucus
- NAPE Workers with Disabilities Committee
Resources
- NUPGE’s Workers with Disabilities and Disability Justice
- Public Services International/The International Labour Organization’s Trade Union Guide on the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Public Services
- Disability and Work in Canada (DWC) Initiative
- Disability Without Poverty
- Canadian Union of Postal Workers Disability Portal
- United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- ARCH Disability Law Centre’s Factsheet – The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the Optional Protocol
- ARCH Disability Law Centre’s Fact Sheet – What is the Accessible Canada Act (ACA)?
- Canadian Labour Congress’ Doing Things Differently: A Disability Rights At Work Handbook
- HSABC’s Discrimination in the Workplace: Findings from HSA’s Survey on Inclusion and Belonging
- OPSEU/SEFPO’s Social Mapping Project
- Realize: Fostering Positive Change for People Living with HIV and other Episodic Disabilities
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