Views

Statement on Proportional Representation motion at Labour Party conference

27 September 2021

A Green Party Trade Union Group statement on Proportional Representation motion at Labour Party conference. […]

View: This is why we must Free Our Unions

23 August 2021

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. […]

View: The next party leaders should be bold and work with trade unions

14 August 2021

This Green Party leadership election, candidates should be dedicated to linking up with trade unions, writes Green and Usdaw Rep Lee Booker. […]

View: More austerity would plunge our schools system into crisis

28 July 2021

Teachers need a real pay rise – for their sake and for ours. […]

Sharon Graham: “Our obsession with the Labour Party needs to end”

19 July 2021

Our written interview with Sharon Graham, candidate for General Secretary of Unite the Union. Graham currently leads the union’s Organising and Leverage Department. […]

Steve Turner: “I will be the greenest general secretary of our labour movement”

19 July 2021

Our written interview with Steve Turner, candidate for General Secretary of Unite the Union. Turner is currently the union’s Assistant General Secretary. […]

Gerard Coyne: “I want to protect Unite members in tough times”

19 July 2021

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. […]

Join an NHS 73rd Anniversary event in London or nation wide on 3rd July and make your voice heard.

21 June 2021

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 back Fire and Rehire Bill

18 June 2021

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 […]

View: The Green Party must work side by side with trade unions

12 March 2021

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 […]

Statements of solidarity

GPTU statement on Labour’s sacking of Sam Tarry

27 July 2022

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. […]

GPTU backs NEU campaign to replace Ofsted

12 April 2022

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

8 April 2022

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. […]

Support RMT Members in P&O Ferries Dispute

18 March 2022

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

23 October 2021

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. […]

Greens say #StopFireAndRehire

22 October 2021

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

1 October 2021

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

28 September 2021

The Green Party Trade Union Group extended its solidarity to BFAWU as it took the momentous decision to disaffiliate from the Labour Party. […]

Statement on Proportional Representation motion at Labour Party conference

27 September 2021

A Green Party Trade Union Group statement on Proportional Representation motion at Labour Party conference. […]

Greens congratulate Sharon Graham on her election as Unite’s General Secretary

25 August 2021

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. […]