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UK Heatwave: How can we safeguard workers?

12 August 2022

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

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. […]

View: We All Need to Oppose Tory Anti-Union Laws

24 May 2022

We all need to oppose the Government’s latest proposed anti-union law. […]

Dozens of Green candidates take pledge to support workers and unions

1 May 2022

Green Party candidates have taken the Trade Union Group’s pledge to support trade unions and workers’ rights if elected as local authority councillors. […]

View: Five reasons why we should end outsourcing

23 March 2022

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. […]

View: The importance of working with unions

16 February 2022

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

8 February 2022

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

29 November 2021

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. […]

View: Empower the unions to fight the climate crisis

6 November 2021

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. […]

View: The fight for PR needs to go through the unions

4 October 2021

The fight for PR needs to go through the unions, writes Usdaw rep Lee Booker. […]

Statements of solidarity

PCS and UVW members working in the Royal Parks plan further strike action

6 August 2021

PCS and UVW members working in the Royal Parks plan further strike action from 16th to 30th August 2021. […]

Greens pay tribute to former GPTU Chair Noel Lynch

3 August 2021

Figures from across the UK’s Green Parties paid tribute to Noel Lynch, the former London Assembly member and Trade Union Group Chair, who passed away this morning. The Green group of London AMs has led the way, publishing a tribute online, and it is expected that his life will be celebrated when the Assembly meets […]

Lack of pay rise for NHS staff “an absolute insult”, say Greens

21 July 2021

The lack of any pay rise for NHS staff in the government’s announcement today is “an absolute insult” to those who have risked their lives throughout the Covid pandemic, the Green Party has said. […]

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 […]

Support the campaign for decent pay, public ownership, and patient safety in our NHS.

20 June 2021

A briefing event for Green Party members, on how to support the campaign for decent pay, public ownership, and patient safety in our NHS. […]

Climate change, COP26, zero carbon economy and job creation

19 June 2021

UCU London Retired Members Branch Climate change, COP26, zero carbon economy and job creation Our branch’s motion to UCU Congress was composited with others and passedVotes in favour 220Votes against 4Registered abstentions 4 The IPCC 2018 Special Report has warned of the dire consequences of exceeding 1.5oC global average warming. To avoid this global carbon […]

Ben Manovitch introduces the Bread and Roses project: for a BFAWU

19 June 2021

Ben Manovitch introduces the Bread and Roses project: for a BFAWU (Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union) rep in Yorkshire.Approx followed by questions and discussion at the .Green Party Trade Union group 12/6/2021 […]

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 […]

Campaign against the takeover of General Practice surgeries by Operose Health

30 April 2021

The Green Party Trade Union Group urges Green Party members and supporters to join the campaign against the takeover of General Practice surgeries by Operose Health, owned by Centene, a US health company. The campaign includes a demonstration outside Operose Health HQ in Central London on Demonstration outside Centene headquarters on Thursday 22nd April 2021 […]

#KillTheBill on Mayday

30 April 2021

Mayday #KillTheBill Protests Mayday #KillTheBill ProtestsUK-wide #KillTheBill protests and actions on the 1 May. This Saturday, tens of thousands of people will be taking to the streets to defend our basic civil rights in a UK-wide day of action. The Tories’ Policing Bill is an attempt to criminalise effective protest and dissent, and to trample […]

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