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22 January 2024 / 22 January 2024 by martinfrancis2
Join us at the next online meeting of Green Party Trade Union group, at 6pm on Tuesday 23 January. This one is on the theme of international solidarity – how workers can collaborate across borders, disrupt multinationals and work across unions and industries for shared interests. We have a great line up confirmed: James Schnieder, […]
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21 December 2023 / 21 December 2023 by martinfrancis2
The Campaign Against Climate Change has circulated a motion that it hopes will unite as much of the trade union movement as possible around a strong call for climate action as a class issue and a trade union issue. This is in response to the disappointing position taken by the TUC. Green Party members may […]
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18 August 2023 / 18 August 2023 by martinfrancis2
August 2023 The Green Party Trade Union Group has continued to grow in 2023, albeit less active than last year. Members have used our resources to back campaigns like the RMT’s to keep ticket offices open and we have proposed a series of worker-friendly policies to Autumn Conference. A summary of our activity so far […]
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 […]
24 November 2022 / 24 November 2022 by martinfrancis2
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.
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12 August 2022 / 12 August 2022 by matthewhull
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.
11 August 2022 / 11 August 2022 by matthewhull
The Green Party Trade Union Group is calling on all Greens to vote for pro-worker, pro-union motions to the Green Party's Autumn Conference in October.
arty Trade Union Group is opposing motions to Green Party Autumn Conference 2022 which would remove the position of Trade Union Liaison Officer from the Party's structures - replacing it with nothing.
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27 July 2022 / 28 July 2022 by matthewhull
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.
19 July 2022 / 28 July 2022 by matthewhull
The Green Party Trade Union Group welcomed candidates at 7pm on Monday 18th July for our online hustings for the Deputy Leader of the Green Party!
17 July 2022 / 28 July 2022 by matthewhull
Join us at 7pm on Monday 25th July for a panel event and discussion - Trade Union Strategies in 2022! This event is open to all.
8 July 2022 / 28 July 2022 by matthewhull
Join the Green Party Trade Union Group at 7pm on Monday 18th July for our online hustings for the Deputy Leader of the Green Party!
19 June 2022 / 28 July 2022 by matthewhull
The Green Party Trade Union Group committee has produced an explainer on why Greens should support the RMT's national strike action.
24 May 2022 / 24 May 2022 by matthewhull
We all need to oppose the Government's latest proposed anti-union law.
11 May 2022 / 12 May 2022 by matthewhull
The Green Party Trade Union Group has called on party members and supporters to join the TUC's march and rally in London on Saturday 18 June, to protest Tory government inaction on the cost-of-living crisis.
10 May 2022 / 12 May 2022 by matthewhull
Greens slammed the Conservative government's decision to drop the Employment Bill from the Queen's Speech yesterday - after promising more than 20 times to take action.
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1 May 2022 / 7 May 2022 by matthewhull
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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12 April 2022 / 12 April 2022 by martinfrancis2
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 […]
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8 April 2022 / 11 April 2022 by matthewhull
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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23 March 2022 / 11 April 2022 by matthewhull
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.
8 February 2022 / 21 February 2022 by matthewhull
As Greens we know that the impact of a shift in local politics can be transformative.
