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NHS workers are fighting for fair pay, patient safety, and against privatisation – join an NHS 73rd Anniversary event in London or nation wide on 3rd July and make your voice heard.

Join Greens at the demo in central London starting at University College Hospital near Euston, or join one of many events taking place across the city.

It’s time we get behind the workers fighting for the future of the NHS as a well-funded, well staffed, truly public service free from the influence of profiteers. After a decade representing more than 15% pay cuts in real terms, we need to turn the tide and Greens can be a part of it.

By joining an event on 3rd July, you are helping to build momentum behind NHS workers’ demands for decent pay ahead of what could be a massive campaign. If you haven’t already, please commit to attending and ask your local Green Party to promote it too.

If there isn’t an event organised near you, why not organise your own? Reply to this email if you want to know more about how you can bring the NHS anniversary celebration to your local area.

In case you missed it, you can now watch a recording of our briefing event with NHS Workers Say No! on 10th June, featuring Jonathan Bartley and GMB rep Edd Mustill.

Thank you so much, and see you on 3rd July!

In friendship,

Green Party Trade Union Group

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Climate change, COP26, zero carbon economy and job creation

Our branch’s motion to UCU Congress was composited with others and passed
Votes in favour 220
Votes against 4
Registered abstentions 4

1. The IPCC 2018 Special Report has warned of the dire consequences of exceeding 1.5oC global average warming.
2. To avoid this global carbon emissions must be halved by 2030.
3. We need to mobilise for a just transition which protects and improves workers’ livelihoods, creates a more inclusive society and stops greenhouse gas emissions.
4. We face a global and UK crisis of unemployment; tackling the Covid- 19 pandemic represents an ideal opportunity to invest in climate jobs.
5. The UK government continues to back false solutions like carbon markets and block the transformational changes which are necessary.

1. Support the COP26 coalition and encourage branches to join it.
2. Join and support the national mobilisations and protests that take place leading up to and during the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in November 2021 by supporting branches taking climate solidarity action with students, unions, and campaign organisations
3. Review UCU activity and infrastructure and draw up a plan for the elimination of greenhouse gas emissions with a report on progress to the 2022 Congress.
4. Review all UCU training programmes and branch guidance to ensure that the appointment of Green Reps and Green New Deal (GND) bargaining is referenced.
5. Provide guidance to branches on engagement with local and regional authorities around green jobs and skills
6. Establish a Climate Action Network with a formal role in UCU structure
7. Support the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill Alliance.

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The Green Party Trade Union Group notes that 70 GP practices in the UK, 49 of them in London, have been taken over by the Centene Corporation, a major US health insurer, through its UK subsidiary, Operose. These were approved by NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) without consulting the public or local councils and with minimal oversight of the effect on NHS staff and quality of service. 

We demand that CCGs prohibit any further takeovers by Centene or other for-profit companies; and that all such existing for-profit contracts be terminated as soon as legally possible. 

We believe that Centene has made its large investment in UK NHS GP practices, through Its UK subsidiary Operose, in the expectation that Operose will in future pay dividends to the parent company. Operose has contracts to digitalise the NHS, transferring various patient-physician interactions to online only, with serious implications for future quality of care. It is clear from the business model that dividends will involve the closure of non-profitable parts of its business. This could include closure of GP practices that remain unprofitable despite “rationalisation” through cuts in staff, wages and services to patients. Local GP practices in deprived communities, or with a large number of older patients, may be particularly vulnerable to closure and transfer of patients to large area GP hubs. This will create difficulty for patients with impaired mobility to reach a doctor. 

We cannot trust   the ‘due diligence’ of CCGs who permitted the sale of independent-provider contracts to a new corporate owner, while apparently ignoring that Centene is accused by the Attorney General of defrauding Ohio of millions of dollars of Medicaid payments.

Unless these profit-driven takeovers are stopped, our NHS GP Services will be commercialised and taxpayers will pay more for a reduced service, the profits ending up in the US.

More information is available here.

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Mayday #KillTheBill ProtestsUK-wide #KillTheBill protests and actions on the 1 May.

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About the author

Jonathan Neale is a professional writer. His books include A People’s History of the Vietnam War (The New Press, 2003); What’s Wrong with America (Vision, 2004), Stop Global Warming: Change the World (Bookmarks, 2008). He wrote One Million Climate Jobs and a report on climate jobs and transport for the European Transport Workers Federation. From 2004 to 2011 Jonathan was International Secretary of Campaign Against Climate Change Britain.

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