Presentations: The Role of Public Service Trade Unions in achieving Decent Work for Persons with Disabilities

PSI affiliates from a range of sectors and from around the world shared their experiences, alongside specialists in subjects related to labour. The conference raised awareness on disability issues, disseminated information on initiatives taken around the world, and helped to identify the way forward for PSI affiliates, PSI itself and the ILO.

This conference marked the opening of new ground at an international level: in terms of a global union federation in partnership with ILO exploring disability, and specifically in the role of the public sector and the public services. As a participant observed, there have been many cases of people with disabilities discriminated in government service across the world, and this initiative is part of a historical change in the position of disability and persons with disabilities.

Presentations:

• The Role of Public Service Trade Unions in achieving Decent Work for Persons with Disabilities (by Sandra Vermuyten, PSI)

• Trade Unions, Disability and Decent Work (by Peter Fremlin, ILO Consultant, Research conducted by ILO, Surveys from PSI and ILO)

• Disability and Cross-cutting Discrimination (by Phyllis Opoku-Gyimah, PCS, UK)

• Public Employment Services: Promoting Inclusive Labour Markets (by Zulum Avila, ILO)

• The Rights of Children and Teachers with Disabilities (by Nikola Wachter, EI)

• Liberia: People With Disabilities (by George Poe Williams, NAHWAL, Liberia)

• Brief on future ILO instrument on violence and Harassment against women and men in the world of work (by Faustina Van Aperen, ILO ACTRAV)

Also see:

• Download and read the full report (PDF)

• Photos on Flickr

• Video interviews (YouTube)

• Background information: Goals and obectives of the meeting