When the UK government announced in 2012 that it was shutting down 36 Remploy factories, which were dedicated to employing people with disabilities, it left hundreds of workers looking at an uncertain future.
In West Yorkshire, 12 former employees from the Leeds and Pontefract sites took matters into their own hands, pooling their £5,000 ($6,900) redundancy payments to set up a worker co-operative. Now, Enabled Works is a thriving packing, distribution and storage business run by 22 worker-members. Everyone has different responsibilities but gets the same hourly rate of pay.
