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22 January 2024 / 22 January 2024 by martinfrancis2
Join us at the next online meeting of Green Party Trade Union group, at 6pm on Tuesday 23 January. This one is on the theme of international solidarity – how workers can collaborate across borders, disrupt multinationals and work across unions and industries for shared interests. We have a great line up confirmed: James Schnieder, […]
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11 January 2024 / 11 January 2024 by martinfrancis2
The NEU has issued a New Year’s message reiterating its call for an immediate and lasting ceasefire in Gaza where the relentless Israeli bombardment has killed more than 22,000 Palestinians since 7 October, over 70 per cent of whom are women and children. The NEU is also calling for an end to the raids, demolitions, […]
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21 December 2023 / 21 December 2023 by martinfrancis2
The Campaign Against Climate Change has circulated a motion that it hopes will unite as much of the trade union movement as possible around a strong call for climate action as a class issue and a trade union issue. This is in response to the disappointing position taken by the TUC. Green Party members may […]
18 December 2023 / 18 December 2023 by martinfrancis2
Many schools are facing cuts due to lack of funding, rising inflation and huge energy costs. The largest proportion of school budgets is spent on staff: teachers, teaching support staff, nursery nurses, admin and caretakers. All are essential to maintianing the quality of education and the smooth running of the school. In recent years teaching […]
As we look back on Autumn Conference it is worth recalling the positive steps that were made. This is not just a matter of policy motions but the involvement of trade unions in conference itself. The main policy gain was over support for shorter working hours and within that access to a four day week. […]
31 October 2023 / 31 October 2023 by martinfrancis2
The Green Party Trade Union Group are proud to have played our part in supporting the campaign to keep ticket offices open along with thousands of others. It is a victory that shows mass mobilisation and a cogent argument works. Congratulations to the RMT and all its members. The union statement is below: RAIL UNION […]
5 October 2023 / 5 October 2023 by martinfrancis2
5 October 2023 UUK has agreed to reverse the 35% cut made to the industry’s Universities Superannuation Scheme pension and restore what has been lost. In a joint statement, UUK and UCU agree to full benefit restoration to pre-April 2022 levels by Monday 1 April 2024, which is worth between £15 to £17bn, as well as […]
13 September 2023 / 13 September 2023 by martinfrancis2
The Trade Union Congress yesterday joined more than 60 organisations including tade unions, human rights and climate action campaigns in opposing the government’s Anti-Boycott Bill. The bill would prohibit public bodies, including universities and councils from supporting BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) on issues that the government deem not in line with their foreign policy. […]
18 August 2023 / 18 August 2023 by martinfrancis2
August 2023 The Green Party Trade Union Group has continued to grow in 2023, albeit less active than last year. Members have used our resources to back campaigns like the RMT’s to keep ticket offices open and we have proposed a series of worker-friendly policies to Autumn Conference. A summary of our activity so far […]
The First Agenda for Autumn Conference 2023 has been published and all members can take part in deciding which motions they think are the most important (and should therefore be heard first) by taking part in the prioritisation ballot. The deadline for completion is midnight, September 1st. It is important to fill in the ballot completely with those motions you […]
15 August 2023 / 15 August 2023 by martinfrancis2
The GPTU members’ meeting last night heard from a Unite speaker as the St Mungo’s strike entered its 11th week. The workers are striking for a 10% pay rise. Their pay has been cut by 25% in real terms since 2010 while the St Mungo’s CEO’s salary has risen by 77% since 2013. The homelessness […]
4 August 2023 by martinfrancis2
Workers demand dignity £15 per hour now! Thousands of Amazon workers in Coventry, the UK and internationally have been joining trade unions to demand fair pay and dignity at work, in a massive mobilisation of the trade union movement. The first strike by hundreds of workers took place at Coventry Amazon in January following earlier […]
27 January 2023 / 27 January 2023 by martinfrancis2
Since the results of the strike ballot was announced many education workers have joined the NEU reaching 32,000 additional members by yesterday – 91% are teachers. . Rallies and marches are planned in towns and cities across the country. See full list so far HERE. Union Reps report a mood of determination and excitement in […]
24 November 2022 / 24 November 2022 by martinfrancis2
Join us at 7pm on Wednesday 30 November as we discuss the growing wave of strike action in the UK’s education system. We’ll hear from Vix Lowthion, secondary school teacher and Green Party Education spokesperson, and the NEU President Louise Atkinson on the crisis in education and how we got to this point. We will […]
26 October 2022 / 26 October 2022 by martinfrancis2
The COP26 Coalition has called a demonstration on November 12th assembling at noon at the Shell Centre on London’s South Bank. This will be one of many protests across the UK. The Coalition has made the following statement: Global temperatures, rising. Energy bills, rising. Billionaire profits, rising. While people are being forced to choose between […]
8 September 2022 / 8 September 2022 by martinfrancis2
I recently published a guest post on my local blog ‘Wembley Matters’ by Lorraine Robertson about the difficulties faced by London bus drivers due to lack of toilet facilities on bus routes LINK. Now Green London Assembly Member Caroline Russell has put down two questions for London Mayor Sadiq Khan for the September 15th session. […]
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12 April 2022 / 12 April 2022 by martinfrancis2
The Green Party of England and Wales has a long-standing policy to replace Ofsted and so we welcome the launch at the National Education Union Conference this week of a petition to do exactly that. Ofsted is the source of much stress for education workers and closely tied to high-stakes testing that distorts the curriculum […]
13 August 2021 / 15 August 2021 by martinfrancis2
The theme for the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting next month is an examination of the critical changes needed to the NHS as it recovers from covid, and, as part of that, the call for the public inquiry of the Government’s handling of the pandemic to begin much sooner than Spring 2022. The BMA is to […]
29 July 2021 / 29 July 2021 by martinfrancis2
The long process of reducing services and closing hospitals in the NHS has a new name ‘Integrated Care Systems’. Private companies will be represented in new organisations deciding how to spend NHS money. Democracy has taken a back seat while corporate America created the system it will benefit from.
27 July 2021 / 29 July 2021 by martinfrancis2
Don't miss NHS Staff Voices' important public meeting tonight on three big issues facing NHS workers now - Covid, pay, and the Health and Social Care bill.
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16 July 2021 / 29 July 2021 by martinfrancis2
Hear from NHS Staff themselves talking about how our NHS workers and the broader social movements can come together to fightback. Organised by Keep Our NHS Public and NHS Staff Voices.
12 July 2021 / 29 July 2021 by martinfrancis2
Unite, which represents tens of thousands of bus drivers, has written to its members setting out their legal rights, after the government confirmed that passengers in England will no longer have to wear face coverings on public transport.
11 July 2021 / 11 July 2021 by martinfrancis2
Retail trade union Usdaw has expressed deep disappointment with the confirmation, by the Work and Pensions Secretary, that the £20 uplift in Universal Credit will end in September, despite widespread opposition. A survey by Usdaw found that 57% of workers on Universal Credit are struggling to pay their gas and electric bills. 80% said they […]
