'Labor issues are, by nature, tied to axes of oppression. When we discuss labor, we also must discuss racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and, of course, ableism.' OpEd
This op-ed argues that disabled workers can't be treated as an afterthought by the labor movement.At my first introductory union meeting, after sitting through a PowerPoint presentation, I piped up with a question: “What about disabled workers?” Leadership went quiet. “You should talk to the accommodations center,” they offered, which didn’t exactly answer my question.
, which offers the idea that disabled people experience time differently than able-bodied people, including at work. It’s easy to see the conversation around ableism as fundamentally at odds with the workplace — capitalism demands our labor, often physically, and that can be difficult to square with the differing needs of disabled people. But if we learn how to improve workplaces for disabled people, those strides forward can make labor better for everyone.
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