My new book is out!

bit.ly/railworkers200

As enthusiasts celebrate the railway's bicentenary, 'Rail workers 200: two centuries of rail workers and their struggles', records the workers who made it happen.

Two centuries in 90 pages, and all for just a fiver.

#rail200

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War, Occupation and Mental Health
Timely article by @janinebooth.bsky.social in the Summer 2024 Asylum Magazine Issue

Past and ongoing efforts to make #rail travel more #accessible to #disabled people.

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"Janine Booth delivered an insightful and thought-provoking session on neurodiversity that sparked meaningful conversation."

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#PCS #neurodiversity

I'm delighted that I will be giving a presentation on *Building autistic space in and through trade unions* at Autscape 2025. Autscape is a residential event run by #autistic people for autistic people.
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Vile.

Wtf any of this word salad means is unclear … until you read the names appended to it.

Then you realise that ‘tough decisions’ means ‘cutting benefits’, not ‘taxing the rich’.

I appear to have been blocked by Grace Blakely for asking how she proposes Russian aggression is stopped without spending on arms - and for refusing to accept her answering a question with a question of her own.
I thought I'd opened an account here to get away from bad-faith arguments on Twitter.

"I had to get Janine on the #podcast, because we were hugely inspired about her mission, which is to talk to many organisations of different sizes, including trade unions, about #neurodiversity and in particular neurodiversity in the workplace."
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A great read as always, don't miss the latest issue of @asylummagazine.bsky.social

The Education International, the TUC, PCS, GMB, ASLEF, Unison, the UCU - all have conference policy for solidarity with Ukraine. In three conferences running the NEU has failed to pass any policy at all, This April is the chance to change that.

How to make sure that you smile many times every day.
Get an iPhone.
Set up Face ID.
Grin at the screen while it takes your photo.
Job done.
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Brilliant cover. Brilliant magazine.

I've been working with the Fire Brigades Union for a few years now, running courses and helping the union set up its Disabled & #Neurodivergent Members’ forum.
These two videos show the excellent work that the union is doing.
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#PCS members in MHCLG are being balloted for strike action over office closures, recruitment and office attendance. Their department is the responsibility of deputy prime minister Angela Rayner MP, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government.
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