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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
Statement: workers demand real democracy
Workers and workers’ organisations have a fine record fighting for democratic rights, from the Chartist movement to the movement for universal suffrage. Now, we are fighting for an electoral system that does not give the party of big business an unfair advantage. in our electoral processes. Significant suffrage campaigners on the left like Sylvia Pankhurst […]
Statement: Oppose the Policing Bill
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (PCSC) due to be debated and voted on in the House of Commons this week presents perhaps the gravest threat to civil liberties in more than a generation. It must be opposed at all costs, in parliament and on the streets. The Coronavirus Act 2020 gave police wide-ranging […]
Statement: Welcoming Supreme Court decision on Uber workers
The Green Party Trade Union Group welcomes the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision to uphold the Employment Tribunal’s view that Uber drivers are workers in the view of the law, not contractors or self-employed individuals. Uber drivers are owed the basic rights owed to all workers: a minimum wage, union representation, the right to fight for […]
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Statement: Close Napier Barracks
The Green Party Trade Union Group calls upon the Home Office to close down the Napier Barracks in Folkestone immediately. Napier barracks is an asylum seeker dispersal unit housing four hundred asylum seeking men. Napier Barracks is not fit for purpose and this is confirmed by the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus at the barracks. […]
Statement: stop the British Gas fire
The Green Party Trade Union Group expressed solidarity with GMB members as they take strike action over British Gas’ fire-and-rehire tactics. Fire-and-rehire is a tactic used by bosses to erode hard-won pay and conditions, by dismissing and rehiring workers on worse conditions. The group wrote to the GMB, saying: “Green Party Trade Union group sends […]
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