Views and opinions from the Green Party Trade Union Group
Views
12 August 2022 / 12 August 2022 by matthewhull
Ben Gladwin, Warwickshire-based teacher and local NEU officer, highlights the example of schools as workers and unions in the UK increasingly call for climate protections.
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Solidarity statements Views
27 July 2022 / 28 July 2022 by matthewhull
We urge trade unionists and socialists to join the Green Party and be in a party that understands solidarity and the importance of workplace collective action.
24 May 2022 / 24 May 2022 by matthewhull
We all need to oppose the Government's latest proposed anti-union law.
10 Reasons News
1 May 2022 / 7 May 2022 by matthewhull
Green Party candidates have taken the Trade Union Group's pledge to support trade unions and workers' rights if elected as local authority councillors.
10 Reasons Views
23 March 2022 / 11 April 2022 by matthewhull
By using private contractors to deliver public services, local authorities are shortchanging their communities. It’s time this was better understood writes Ellen Lees on behalf of the Green Party Trade Union Group.
16 February 2022 / 21 February 2022 by matthewhull
I have seen first-hand how working closely with unions can have a transformative impact, both on the ways we work and on the community around us.
8 February 2022 / 21 February 2022 by matthewhull
As Greens we know that the impact of a shift in local politics can be transformative.
29 November 2021 / 29 November 2021 by matthewhull
Extinction Rebellion is right to challenge business and government for leading the world into ecological catastrophe, but must establish close links with local working class communities.
6 November 2021 / 6 November 2021 by matthewhull
We must empower the unions to fight the climate crisis, writes Green Party Trade Union Group Chair Matthew Hull on the COP26 Coalition's Day of Action.
4 October 2021 / 4 October 2021 by matthewhull
The fight for PR needs to go through the unions, writes Usdaw rep Lee Booker.
27 September 2021 / 28 September 2021 by matthewhull
A Green Party Trade Union Group statement on Proportional Representation motion at Labour Party conference.
23 August 2021 / 23 August 2021 by matthewhull
Here's why why I think there are particular possibilities for collaboration between our campaign and yourselves as Green trade unionists, that I hope we can explore.
14 August 2021 / 15 August 2021 by matthewhull
This Green Party leadership election, candidates should be dedicated to linking up with trade unions, writes Green and Usdaw Rep Lee Booker.
28 July 2021 / 28 July 2021 by matthewhull
Teachers need a real pay rise - for their sake and for ours.
News Views
19 July 2021 / 19 July 2021 by matthewhull
Our written interview with Sharon Graham, candidate for General Secretary of Unite the Union. Graham currently leads the union's Organising and Leverage Department.
Our written interview with Steve Turner, candidate for General Secretary of Unite the Union. Turner is currently the union's Assistant General Secretary.
Our written interview with Gerard Coyne, candidate for General Secretary of Unite the Union. Coyne was the union's Regional Secretary in the West Midlands until 2017.
EVENTS News Solidarity statements Views
21 June 2021 / 21 June 2021 by petermurry
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. 3RD JULY – CENTRAL LONDON DEMONSTRATION CAMDEN/ISLINGTON EVENT/ It’s time we get behind the workers fighting for the future of the NHS as a well-funded, well staffed, truly public […]
News Solidarity statements Views
18 June 2021 / 19 June 2021 by martinfrancis2
Unite, has today has endorsed Barry Gardiner’s parliamentary bill to end fire and rehire. Unite’s general secretary, Len McCluskey, called the practice, in which employers sack their workers only to rehire them on lower pay and worse conditions, “a disease that’s ripping through our workplaces”. Barry Gardiner MP presented his bill in Parliament as a Private […]
12 March 2021 / 17 March 2021 by matthewhull
This article was first published on Bright Green. It was written by Paul Valentine, a non-portfolio officer of the Green Party Trade Union Group. Trade unions, Green Party. Green Party, Trade unions. Four words I have batted around between Green and union activists alike. I have often observed an uncomfortable relationship between the two groups […]
9 February 2021 / 15 February 2021 by matthewhull
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 […]
22 January 2021 / 6 October 2021 by matthewhull
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 […]
