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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
24 September 2022 / 28 September 2022 by matthewhull
Join the Trade Union Group in attending this Green Party Autumn Conference 2022 fringe event, hosted by Green European Foundation and Green House Think Tank.
23 September 2022 / 29 September 2022 by matthewhull
Join the Green Party Trade Union Group at Autumn Conference 2022, as we hear from councillors how they have used their positions to support workers in struggle.
18 September 2022 / 28 September 2022 by matthewhull
The Free Our Unions campaign and Earth Strike/Empower the Unions are holding an assembly and protest at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in London to oppose the threat of new anti-trade union laws.
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. […]
