matthewhull, Author at Green Party Trade Union Group

View: LGBT+ Rights and the Trade Union Movement – Building on a Historic Allyship

Posted on 9 February 2021 (15 February 2021)

By Joe Lever (he/him). Originally posted on the LGBTIQA+ Greens Voices page, on the occasion of the TUC’s #HeartUnions Week and as part of their LGBT History Month 2021 series. Trigger Warning: homophobia … It’s difficult to properly dissect modern UK LGBT+ history without at least acknowledging the impact of the Stonewall Riots, from across […]

London Greens support striking care workers

Posted on 7 February 2021

London Green Party showed its support for striking care, maintenance and cleaning staff at Sage Nursing Home in North London as they begin their fourth consecutive day of strike action. […]

Statement: Close Napier Barracks

Posted on 7 February 2021 (7 February 2021)

The Green Party Trade Union Group calls upon the Home Office to close down the Napier Barracks in Folkestone immediately. Napier barracks is an asylum seeker dispersal unit housing four hundred asylum seeking men. Napier Barracks is not fit for purpose and this is confirmed by the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus at the barracks. […]

Group calls on Home Office to close Napier Barracks site

Posted on 6 February 2021 (10 February 2021)

The Green Party Trade Union Group today joined calls to close the Napier Barracks site in Folkestone in Kent. […]

Trade Union Group holds panel on trade & the labour movement

Posted on 22 January 2021 (10 February 2021)

The Green Party Trade Union Group held a panel discussion on Thursday 21st January, highlighting the risks posed by Brexit to hard-won rights and standards. Featuring speakers from UNISON, Global Justice Now, Trade Justice Movement, and the University of Oxford, attendees heard of the democratic deficit inherent in the UK’s trade negotiation and ratification processes. […]

View: Shop workers need a fighting, radical union

Posted on 22 January 2021 (6 October 2021)

By Jake Welsh. Originally published on Bright Green. Anyone who has known me over the past 11 years knows my undying commitment to the Green Party of England and Wales as an electoral path to help move society in an eco-socialist direction. But electoral politics alone cannot bring about an eco-socialist society. We need grassroots […]

Group supports British Gas workers against fire-and-rehire tactics

Posted on 7 January 2021 (10 February 2021)

The Green Party Trade Union Group today wrote to GMB officers to express solidarity with British Gas workers. The workers are taking action against fire-and-rehire tactics, which are being used to erode hard-won pay and conditions at the company. In their letter, the group wrote: “British Gas engineers perform a vital role in keeping everyone’s homes warm’ a service which […]

Statement: stop the British Gas fire

Posted on 7 January 2021 (7 February 2021)

The Green Party Trade Union Group expressed solidarity with GMB members as they take strike action over British Gas’ fire-and-rehire tactics. Fire-and-rehire is a tactic used by bosses to erode hard-won pay and conditions, by dismissing and rehiring workers on worse conditions. The group wrote to the GMB, saying: “Green Party Trade Union group sends […]

Green Party speaks out in support of education workers

Posted on 3 January 2021 (10 February 2021)

The Green Party backed teachers’ urgent calls to close school premises and move teaching online, except for the children of key workers and the most vulnerable. Green-led Brighton & Hove City Council has already written to primary schools advising them to move teaching online until at least Monday 18th January 2021. “It is right that […]

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