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UK Heatwave: How can we safeguard workers?
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. […]
GPTU statement on Labour’s sacking of Sam Tarry
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. […]
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View: We All Need to Oppose Tory Anti-Union Laws
We all need to oppose the Government’s latest proposed anti-union law. […]
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Dozens of Green candidates take pledge to support workers and unions
Green Party candidates have taken the Trade Union Group’s pledge to support trade unions and workers’ rights if elected as local authority councillors. […]
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View: Five reasons why we should end outsourcing
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. […]
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View: The importance of working with unions
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. […]
View: The power of local politics
As Greens we know that the impact of a shift in local politics can be transformative. […]
View: Critical engagement with XR’s Black Friday Amazon blockades
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. […]
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View: Empower the unions to fight the climate crisis
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. […]
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View: The fight for PR needs to go through the unions
The fight for PR needs to go through the unions, writes Usdaw rep Lee Booker. […]
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Statements of solidarity
GPTU statement on Labour’s sacking of Sam Tarry
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. […]
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GPTU backs NEU campaign to replace Ofsted
The Green Party of England and Wales has a long-standing policy to replace Ofsted and so we welcome the launch at the National Education Union Conference this week of a petition to do exactly that. Ofsted is the source of much stress for education workers and closely tied to high-stakes testing that distorts the curriculum […]
Greens express solidarity with UCU members at Richmond upon Thames College
The Green Party Trade Union Group on Friday expressed its solidarity with UCU members at Richmond upon Thames College, who are fighting against management plans to fire workers and rehire them on worse pay, terms, and conditions. […]
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Support RMT Members in P&O Ferries Dispute
The Green Party Trade Union Group expresses our disgust at the dismissal on Thursday of approximately 800 seafarers by P&O Ferries. We stand in solidarity with the workers and their union, RMT. […]
Greens vote to campaign for a £15 minimum wage
The Green Party today voted to extend solidarity to the Bakers, Food & Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) and support their ‘Fight for 15’ campaign for a £15 minimum wage. […]
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Greens say #StopFireAndRehire
Green Party members came together at their Autumn Conference in support of the private members’ bill to stop ‘fire and rehire’. […]
Green trade unionists congratulate Carla Denyer & Adrian Ramsay on their election as party co-leaders
Green Party trade unionists and allies congratulated Carla Denyer & Adrian Ramsay on their election as the next leader of the Green Party of England & Wales. […]
GPTU responds to news that BFAWU will disaffiliate from the Labour Party
The Green Party Trade Union Group extended its solidarity to BFAWU as it took the momentous decision to disaffiliate from the Labour Party. […]
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Statement on Proportional Representation motion at Labour Party conference
A Green Party Trade Union Group statement on Proportional Representation motion at Labour Party conference. […]
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Greens congratulate Sharon Graham on her election as Unite’s General Secretary
As Sharon Graham was elected General Secretary of Unite the union, the UK’s second-largest trade union, Green Party figures congratulated Graham on her victory. […]
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