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STUC to seek disabled workers' views on assisted suicide
An objector to assisted suicide holds up placards outside the Scottish Parliament as MSPs debated the subject in 2015
“At local level, it’s different."
THE Scottish TUC agreed today to work with the disabled workers’ committee to determine the views of disabled trade unionists on assisted suicide.
Laws are currently being debated in both the British and Scottish parliaments which would legalise assisted death.
Moving, Unison’s Mark Ferguson said trade unions could not be passive given members would be involved in implementing any new law.
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