updates from UCU London retired members branch: 5/11 demo/Trade Union Solidarity with Palestinian Workers /Sudanese revolution/bauxite mining in Jamaica

 

Palestine Solidarity Campaign Conference: Trade Union Solidarity with Palestinian Workers  Saturday 12 November 2022 in Central London  https://www.palestinecampaign.org/events/tu-solidarity-with-palestinian-workers/ This day conference is for trade unionists who want to further their solidarity work with Palestinians living and working under occupation and apartheid.  Supported by: ASLEF, AUE, BFAWU, CWU, FBU, NEU, PCS, RMT, Thompsons Solicitors, TSSA, UCU, UNISON, Unite the Union. Jo Grady, General Secretary UCU will be one of the speakers Greener Jobs Alliance Newsletter Oct. 2022 Download here... Against Bauxite Mining in Jamaica Following our resolution at the last Branch meeting, UCU London Region passed a resolution on the subject to be sent to the TUC London East and South East Environmental Sustainability and Just Transition Network. This led to a  meeting with representatives of the London Hazards Centre and London Mining Network from London as well as the Jamaica Environment Trust and Caribbean Labour Solidarity from Jamaica. The mining company concerned has offices in London, so we are discussing a campaign here. More details as the emerge, but more details of the devastating effect of bauxite mining here....

Nov 12 will see mass mobilisations across the country and put thousands of people on the streets to demand Climate Justice in solidarity with the Global Day of Action called by Egyptian groups at COP27.

 

Nov 12 will see mass mobilisations across the country and put thousands of people on the streets to demand Climate Justice in solidarity with the Global Day of Action called by Egyptian groups at COP27.

• LONDON – Shell Building 12:00
• EDINBURGH – St Andrew Sq 12:00
• NEWCASTLE – Grey’s Monument 12:00
• BIRMINGHAM – Victoria Sq 14:00
• SHEFFIELD – Barkers Pool 12:00
• BRISTOL – College Green 12:00
• PLYMOUTH – Guildhall Sq 11:00
• SOUTHAMPTON – Guildhall Sq 12:45
• CARDIFF – Cardiff Crown Court 11:00
• SWANSEA – Castle Square 12:00
• CARMARTHEN – Carmarthen Park 12:30
• BLACKPOOL – location tbc.
• EASTBOURNE – location tbc.
• CORNWALL – location tbc.
• DERRY & DUBLIN – organised by CJC Ireland
• BELFAST – organised by CJC Belfast
• LEICESTER – Clock Tower 14:00
• LEAMINGTON SPA – Pump Room Gardens 12:00
• MARKET HARBOROUGH – Old Grammar School 13:00

From the national & global cost of living crisis, climate impacts in the global south and the demand for climate reparations, and the urgent need to end fossil fuel extraction and for a workers-led justice transition: we will rise up together and fight for justice. We must recognise the human rights abuses being committed by the Egyptian government and stand in solidarity with efforts to free political prisoners and end ongoing repression.

Join and support regional and national demos near you, or organise activities in your area. Have a look at our Action Resource Pack, and find your Local Hub here. Let us know if your planning something: info[@]climatejustice.uk

Help build the mobilisations! Reach out to groups in your networks, and promote via social media and email. Find graphics, messaging, and social media templates in our Comms Pack.

THIS CRISIS DEMANDS ACTION

Read the full messaging guide here.

Global temperatures, rising. Energy bills, rising. Billionaire profits, rising. While people are being forced to choose between heating and eating, energy companies are making record-breaking profits. 

From bailouts to big business, ramping up more deadly fossil fuels to trashing nature and cutting our wages the Government is refusing to listen. Their policies both here and globally are causing devastation with working people and people of colour – who have contributed the least to the problem – paying the price with killer famines, floods, crop failures, fires and rising poverty. 

To stop this crisis we need action that cuts carbon, tackles inequality and ends the injustices baked into our world. 

This year world leaders will meet in Egypt for COP27 and African movements have called for a Global Day of Action for climate justice. Communities in the global south need urgent climate finance and reparations for the loss and damages that have caused mass destruction of lives and livelihoods. The UK government must stop its climate wrecking plans and implement real climate solutions that solve both the climate and cost of living crisis and ensure that everyone has a right to live with dignity.

We recognise the human rights abuses being committed by the Egyptian government and stand in solidarity with efforts to free political prisoners and end ongoing repression.

Justice won’t be handed to us by world leaders or delivered by corporations. We need to organise in our communities and ensure that not only is no one is cold or hungry this winter but that we stop the headlong rush into climate catastrophe. Get organised and build support for Nov 12.

International Movement

• Sign & share the Egyptian Human Rights Coalition COP27 petition demanding the opening up of civic space in Egypt, and the immediate and unconditional release of political prisoners.
• The Africa Peoples Counter COP is being organised from 17-21 October, with hybrid events and decentralised actions.
• Support the campaign to free Alaa Abd El Fattah – visit www.freealaa.net and send a letter to your MP, and follow @FreedomForAlaa to look out for upcoming actions.
• Egypt Solidarity COP27 Resources and Toolkit: https://egyptsolidarityinitiative.org/cop27toolkit/
• Find out about the global fight for Climate Justice in Egypt this year at COP27: https://www.cop27coalition.org/.
• No Climate Justice without open civic space: https://copcivicspace.net/

Nov 12 Mass Mobilisations for Justice are supported by:

The Climate Justice Coalition
Climate Justice Coalition Ireland
Stop Climate Chaos Scotland
The Climate Coalition
War on Want
Friends of the Earth Scotland
Friends of the Earth ENWI
Extinction Rebellion
Extinction Rebellion Scotland
Global Justice Now
Tipping Point UK
Jubilee Scotland
Public and Commercial Services Union
Unison
Campaign Against Climate Change
Land Workers Alliance
Medact
Stop Cambo
Faith For The Climate
CAFOD
London Mining Network
Breathe
Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers
Ecojustice Ireland
Migrants Organise
Debt Justice
Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Extinction Rebellion Deep Water
No Borders in Climate Justice
Climate Reality Europe
Quakers in Britain

NPC warns Chancellor that he will condemn millions to poverty if he axes pensions triple lock

 

Campaigning for the rights of older people

 

NEWS: *Immediate Release*

 

NPC STATEMENT

 

NPC warns Chancellor that he will condemn millions to poverty if he axes pensions triple lock

 

The National Pensioners’ Convention is urging Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to keep the triple lock rise on state pensions to save millions from falling into poverty.

The UK’s largest campaign group run for and by older people was alarmed to hear the new Chancellor refuse to commit to bringing back the triple lock next spring. During questions by MPs on the government’s mini-budget U-turn yesterday (17^th), Mr Hunt revealed the measure to protect pension increases is one of the cost-saving benefit cuts he is considering.

The Conservatives committed in their 2019 manifesto to maintaining the so-called triple lock, which rules that the state pension must rise in line with whichever is highest - inflation, average earnings or 2.5%. If the triple lock is reinstated in April, it would allow pensions to potentially rise by more than 10%.

Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak suspended the measure during the pandemic, but Prime Minister Liz Truss vowed she would honour the triple lock commitment during this summer's Tory leadership race.

Commenting on Mr Hunt’s announcement, NPC General Secretary Jan Shortt said: “The new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s refusal to confirm whether he will give pensioners the full value of inflation under the triple lock is extremely concerning for the NPC. We are already struggling with the cost of living crisis – it will be disastrous if the triple lock is not reinstated next spring.

“It is well documented that older people spend a larger percentage of their fixed income on energy and therefore have to cut spending on other essentials such as food.

“Over two million older people are living in poverty and as this crisis gathers pace, with bankers having bonuses restored and higher mortgage rates doing nothing to relieve the worry of those on fixed and low incomes, we will see more poverty and an increase in winter deaths.”

“The value of the state pension has eroded over decades despite the overtures of the Pensions’ Minister that we are protected. 

“Our spending power has decreased and the 3.1% rise in pensions in April 2022 was immediately swallowed up by energy prices and inflation across a range of essentials.”

 

ENDS

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

Beverley Morrison

National Public Affairs Manager

National Pensioners Convention

London  WC1N 1AB

​Telephone: 020 7837 6622  Mobile: 07588 779515

bevmorrison@npcuk.org or info@npcuk.org

 

 

 

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Trade Union Solidarity with Palestinian Workers

 

Trade Union Solidarity with Palestinian Workers

We are pleased to announce a range of specialist speakers, including:

Samia Al-Botmeh, Assistant professor in economics and researcher at the Centre for Development Studies at Birzeit University in Palestine

Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary NEU

Riya Al'Sanah, PhD candidate at the University of Exeter, co-authored the Working Palestine: Covid-19, Labour, and Trade Unions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip report along with Dr. Rafeef Ziadah and Professor Adam Hanieh.

Jo Grady, General Secretary UCU

Aimee Shalan, Co-Director MAKAN

Mariela Kohon, Senior International Officer TUC  

Kamel Hawwash, Chair Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Liz Wheatley, Chair of UNISON International Committee

Greener Jobs Alliance Newsletter 41

 

Newsletter 41 is on the web site now.

Please pass on to anyone and everyone who might find it useful or interesting (or both).

Thanks

Paul

Newsletters | Greener Jobs Alliance

Contents 

• Editorial: Enough is enough. Truss on the skids. 

• TUC Fringe Meeting and Motions Guide 

• Net Zero Scrutiny Review 

• Party Conference Round Up; Labour. Greens 

• Retrofit in the West Midlands and Leeds 

• The elephant in the room that just isn’t going away – air pollution 

• School Leavers Climate Literacy. The only way is up? 

• Teach the Future launch Curriculum for a Changing Climate 

• Global Climate Jobs Conference 

• Forthcoming Conferences 

• Actions 

• Green Bites

GPTU and GREEN LEFT at the RMT picket Harrogate