CACCTU flyer for 1st Feb / strikes in general

 

SUPPORT THJE STRIKES

 

The Green Party Trade Union group sends its support to the Amazon warehouse workers in Coventry

The Green Party Trade Union group sends its support to the Amazon warehouse workers in Coventry who have announced the first strike at Amazon in the UK on 25 January 2023

The strikers, organised through the GMB*, are calling for a for £15 a hour wage , having been initially offered 50p by Amazon, a hugely profitable and powerful company.

Amazon’s profits have come at the expense of damage to smaller local businesses, communities and the environment but they are also built on the exploitation of its workers.

As one Amazon worker pointed out: ‘Everyone is aware of how much Amazon made during the pandemic - that was from us grafting.’ (https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/coventry-amazon-worker-says-hundreds-26001650)

Picket lines will take place for 24 hours to ensure all shifts are covered and a rally of support 6-8pm at Sayer Drive Coventry CV5 9PF. Please bring Banners.

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/gmb-are-standing-with-amazon-workers https://www.gmb.org.uk/news/amazon-workers-announce-strike-date

https://www.gmb.org.uk/campaign/make-work-better-amazon

Email: press.office@gmb.org.uK

* The GMB is a general trade union in the United Kingdom 

NATIONAL RIGHT TO STRIKE DAY

Clive Lewis delivered a very powerful speech in the House of Commons during the debate on the new anti-strike legislation that is going through parliament.

Labour MP Clive Lewis delivered a very powerful speech in the House of Commons during the debate on the new anti-strike legislation that is going through parliament. Clive talked about the Tories of the past and the Tories of the present and how they are the enemies of the workers.

 

TUC Conference: Economics for workers not wealth

A conference to examine the economic debates behind workers’ current demands and begin to develop an economy for workers not wealth.

ByTrades Union Congress (TUC)

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Thu, 2 February 2023, 09:30 – 17:00 GMT

LOCATION

TUC Congress House 23-28 Great Russell St London WC1B 3LS

ABOUT THIS EVENT

• 7 hours 30 minutes
• Mobile eTicket
• What do the current state of the public finances mean for public services, pay rises and an economy for workers?
• Who are the winners and losers from the current pay crisis ?
• Breakout sessions on the building blocks for a workers’ economy, including minimum wages, industrial strategy and addressing personal debt
• The international landscape for a workers’ economy
• Why central bank policy matters for working people

We are honoured to have joining us the following distinguished speakers, each with a long background in the public debate around economic policy:

• Andrew Martin Fischer – Professor of Inequality, Social Protection and Development at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, part of Erasmus University Rotterdam.
• Ann Pettifor chair of prime economics and winner of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thinking
• Filip Stefanović – senior economist at the Trades Union Advisory Committee to the OECED
• Mary-Ann Stephenson – director of the Women’s Budget Group
• Randeep Ramesh – chief leader writer for the Guardian newspaper
• Dr Phillip Turner – previously Deputy Head of the Monetary and Economic Department and a member of Senior Management of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS),
• Stewart Lansley – visiting fellow at the School of Policy Studies, University of Bristol who writes on inequality, wealth and poverty.
• Dr Robert Calvert Jump (Greenwich University) and Dr Jo Michell (University of West of England) – authors of ‘The Dangerous Fiction of the “Fiscal Black Hole”’
• https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tuc-conference-economics-for-workers-not-wealth-tickets-491763226047

Support Glenroy Watson In arguing for a safer Underground, he is fighting for us all.

 

HOW TO COMBAT THE CUMBRIA COALMINE AND OTHER RETROGRADE ENERGY PROJECTS’ 7 February 2023 at 7pm

 

GREEN LEFT OPEN MEETING

The meeting will be open to all interested in ecosocialism.

HOW TO COMBAT THE CUMBRIA COALMINE AND OTHER RETROGRADE ENERGY PROJECTS’

 

7 February 2023 at 7pm 

contact yrrumuk@googlemail.com for zoom codes.

SPEAKERS

 

ELLEN ROBOTTOM

The carbon capture-hydrogen-biomass complex: not too big to challenge!

TINA ROTHERY

'Pulling Ourselves Together' informing, engaging and activating within our communities.

 ALLAN TODD

Opposing new coal: from courts to Blockadia’ 

Ellen Robottom is active with Leeds Trades Council, the regional Climate Justice Coalition and the Stop Burning Trees Coalition. She is on the Campaign Against Climate Change (CACC) Steering Group, and contributed to the booklet Climate Jobs: Building a Workforce for the Climate Emergency produced by the CACC Trade Union Group.

 Tina Rothery is a writer, activist environmental campaigner, focusing on resisting fracking. She co-founded Nanas against Fracking and conducted direct action against fracking projects. She was previously involved in Occupy London and works with Zero Hour on their Climate and Ecology Bill.

Allan Todd is a climate and anti-fascist activist; a member of Left Unity’s National Council; and author of Ecosocialism Not Extinction (Resistance Books), Revolutions 1789-1917 (CUP),  Trotsky: The Passionate Revolutionary (Pen & Sword), and the forthcoming Che Guevara: The Romantic Revolutionary

Green Left, an ecosocialist group within the Green Party of England  and Wales

GREENER JOBS ALLIANCE NEWSLETTER 44 - COST OF LIVING AND CLIMATE CRISES, GREEN BARGAINING OFFICERS, SKILLS GAPS, STEEL, EDUCATION, NATURE AND WHY GAS IS NOT A "TRANSITION FUEL"

 

GREENER JOBS ALLIANCE NEWSLETTER 44 - COST OF LIVING AND CLIMATE CRISES, GREEN BARGAINING OFFICERS, SKILLS GAPS, STEEL, EDUCATION, NATURE AND WHY GAS IS NOT A "TRANSITION FUEL"

Out now!

This edition takes up the need to link the cost of living crisis to the climate crisis, key transition issues in skills agenda for manufacturing and transforming the Steel industry, how we can build capacity in the movement to negotiate on green transition in regions and workplaces, nature and education in the COP process and why gas is not a transition fuel.

Please pass it on to all your networks.

Link here GJA-Newsletter-44-FINAL.pdf (greenerjobsalliance.co.uk)

Thanks

Paul

Contents

• Editorial - The "People's Priorities"?

• Retrofitting. Model Motion for Opposition Parties

• Bold Solutions • Skills Crisis • a future for sustainable UK steel making

• Role of Green Bargaining Officer: • GJA bringing initiatives together • What is a Green Bargaining Officer • Yorkshire and Humber TUC – climate change and Just Transition • Green jobs future given boost by Welsh Labour government

• 30 by 30. Biodiversity COP15

• COP 27: Education recognised, but no new commitments

• Climate Impacts on Schools and Colleges UCU Film

• Green Bites - why gas is not a transition fuel

Read Mick Lynch in the latest edition of Tribune on the new draconian laws and how we build a movement to defend the #RightToStrike

 

"It's a form of conscription, really..."

Read Mick Lynch in the latest edition of Tribune on the new draconian laws and how we build a movement to defend the #RightToStrike

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2023/01/mick-lynch-anti-union-laws-enough-is-enough