Views and opinions from the Green Party Trade Union Group
Our written interview with Sharon Graham, candidate for General Secretary of Unite the Union. Graham currently leads the union’s Organising and Leverage Department. […]
Read More… from Sharon Graham: “Our obsession with the Labour Party needs to end”
Our written interview with Steve Turner, candidate for General Secretary of Unite the Union. Turner is currently the union’s Assistant General Secretary. […]
Read More… from Steve Turner: “I will be the greenest general secretary of our labour movement”
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. […]
Read More… from Gerard Coyne: “I want to protect Unite members in tough times”
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Read More… from View: The Green Party must work side by side with trade unions
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 […]
Read More… from View: LGBT+ Rights and the Trade Union Movement – Building on a Historic Allyship
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 […]
Read More… from View: Shop workers need a fighting, radical union
