The People with disAbilities Committee is for HEU members who are disabled and working, on long-term disability (LTD) or Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) programs, or who have been on sick leave for a long time.
Disabilities can be physical (i.e. blindness, deafness, loss of limb activity), invisible (i.e. epilepsy, diabetes, AIDS, severe allergies, chronic pain), or mental (i.e. learning, psychiatric, intellectual). Human Rights law also defines drug and alcohol dependence as disabilities.
The committee, which promotes the contributions of workers with disabilities, has produced this 29-page handbook One union, many abilities.
Winter 2011 newsletter