https://youtu.be/CzEJYmrO7gU

‘Get Organised. Against Poverty and Isolation’.

Green Left open meeting on 17 May 2023 7pm

This meeting is for and about the numerous people, who for various reasons, are not reached by conventional ‘mainstream’ organisations such as trade unions and political parties. Does involvement in such organisations have anything to offer? Or are low levels of participation caused by prejudice, discrimination and wilful ignorance from the mainstream?

Each speaker will have their own perspectives, insights and experiences of this topic.

The meeting will be online, via zoom, it will be open to Green Party members and other ecosocialists.

Speakers

Beccy Sawbridge, Co-chair and Equal Opportunities Officer, Green Left

Joseph Healy, Anti-Capitalist Resistance, former advisor for elderly and disabled people on employing carers.

Dzaier Neil Green Party Disability Group/

Chair D. McNamara

If you have any questions, please contact Peter Murry, Co-Secretary Green Left yrrumuk@googlemail.com.

PIZZA EXPRESS WORKERS NEED YOUR HELP

 

PIZZA EXPRESS WORKERS NEED YOUR HELP

UNITE HOSPITALITY VIA MEGAPHONE UK CAMPAIGNS@MEGAPHONE.ORG.UK VIA EMAIL.ACTIONNETWORK.ORG

Megaphone UK is a project of the TUC, in collaboration with our 48 member unions and the nearly 5.5 million union members in the UK. We know big change only comes when we stand together. Learn more: https://www.megaphone.org.uk/

Below is a message from Unite Hospitality. Their members at Pizza Express are facing a huge cut in hours, but they're fighting back. If they can win, it will show hospitality workers everywhere that by coming together in their union, they can improve their industry.

,Pizza Express are proposing the mass roll-out of a 'labour management scheme' which would effectively remove non-salaried managers from the rota for lunchtime shifts.This may see thousands of waiters lose hundreds of hours without proper consultation and managers having to do even more work for the same wage!The impact this will have on the most financially insecure part-time workers who need these lunchtime hours to fit around school and childcare is catastrophic.In less than 24 hours the backlash from all levels of the workforce has been so acute that the CEO Paula MacKenzie was forced to call an emergency meeting with all General Managers yesterday

As we did on fair tips, we shall be organising our members across the company to force the abandonment of this awful policy proposal.But we need your help!

Pizza Express may not care about their workforce but they certainly care about the future custom of the general public. If you believe that Pizza Express should abandon attempts to cut lunchtime hours, please sign, share and make your voice heard

:View the petition

Exploitative bosses, insecure work, blatant disrespect - hospitality workers across the country are facing the same problems everywhere you go

Signing our petition helps us grow the campaign, and shows other hospitality workers that through a union they have a better chance at standing up for their rights and making a difference.Together, we can ensure that workers are treated with the respect and dignity they deserve.

Bryan Simpson,Unite Hospitality

via Megaphone UK

May 19th (London) RE: TONIGHT: ex-GKN FOR FUTURE

Here is the London event Friday May 19^th 7-11pm in Pelican House, 144 Cambridge Heath Road London E1 5QJ                   

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-transition-is-a-class-conflict-tickets-632403204007

 

On 9 July 2021, the automotive factory GKN Florence made the Italian news: on that day, one email fired all of its 422 workers. This sparked a struggle that will go down in history: the factory takeover by the GKN workers’ permanent assembly, the Insorgiamo (Let’s rise up) slogan, the convergence between labour and environmental struggles, and much more.

As the struggle of workers organized in the Collettivo di Fabbrica (Factory Collective) opened up to institutional negotiations, they developed a strategy of convergence between working class struggles and climate justice struggles that led to four national marches and hundreds of initiatives across Italy.

The alliances between the two movements, united by the slogan “End of the Month, End of the World, Same Struggle,” overcame the prevailing paradigm that pits environmentalists and workers as naturally opposed.

The GKN dispute is on the edge. It could become either a further textbook case on how to shut down a workplace or a precedent to disrupt in a positive direction the methodology of struggle against layoffs and precarious employment, kickstarting a real ecological transition.

This event is part of the WE MAKE TOMORROW programme that the Climate Justice Coalition Trade Union Caucus is running to build workers power on climate and crisis. The series of events will dig into how rising energy prices, inflation, falling wages and the climate crisis are not only connected but actually being driven by the same systems.

Trade Union briefing on Climate Justice in the North Sea

 

Dear Trade Unionist,

Tipping Point UK will be running a Trade Union briefing on Climate Justice in the North Sea online on Wednesday 7th June 2023 at 6.30pm. Register here.

At a time of accelerating climate change, we understand that the future can not be based on fossil fuels. To achieve climate justice, a just transition is required with the UK doing its fair share in combating the climate crisis, this means oil and gas workers, their unions and communities should be meaningfully involved in the phase out of fossil fuels and the shift to more sustainable jobs.

Meanwhile, the UK government is expected to authorise 100s of new licenses for North Sea oil and gas extraction and many trade unions, including the Trade Union Congress (TUC), still support a "balanced energy mix" that includes fossil fuels.

How, as trade unionists, do we reconcile the urgency of stopping new fossil fuel infrastructure and ensuring oil & gas workers are on board and driving the change themselves? In this Trade Union briefing, we will attempt to bring some answers to those challenges with two great speakers from campaigns who are linking with fossil fuel workers:

• Rosemary Harris from Platform is one of the authors of the 2023 report Our Power: Offshore Workers's demands for a Just Energy Transition
• Bibi Elberse from the Stop Rosebank campaign and is an organiser at Tipping Point UK

Register to attend our Trade Union briefing.

There will be opportunities to ask questions to the speakers as well as discussion groups to reflect on what we can do as trade union members to help achieve more collaboration between the workers' movement and the climate justice movement.

Thank you and I hope to see you on the 7th June,

Clara