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Welcome to TUDA, the Trade Union Disability Alliance

TUDA – the Trade Union Disability Alliance – is an organisation of Disabled Trade Union Members. We are a campaigning group with individual members from over two dozen different Trade Unions. TUDA aims to:

• Co-ordinate the perspective of Disabled people in the Trade Union movement;
• Bridge the gap between the Trade Union and Disability movements;
• Work within, and lobby, Trade Unions to ensure they make their own services accessible and relevent to Disabled Members;
• Ensure that Trade Unions support our continuing campaign for full civil rights;
• Promote understanding of disability as an equalities issues, giving talks and training to Trade Unions;
• Work with Disabled people to persuade them of the benefits of Trade Union membership and activity.

On 25 May 2006 TUDA launched the Trade Union Charter for Disability Equality. First to sign up were the Communications Workers Union and the broadcasting union Bectu, followed by the NASWT and NAPO. Speaking on behalf of the Disability Rights Commission, Bob Niven said: "We think the Charter is a good piece of work and agree that it will be of great help to trade unions in their role in ensuring disability equality. We wish the Charter well." Click here for more details.

As a Disabled Trade Unionist, what are my rights?
As a Disabled Trade Unionist, what can I do to support TUDA?
As a Trade Union, what can we do to support disabled members?
As a Trade Union, what can we do to support TUDA?

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