Brent Green Party and the Green Party Trade Union group fully support their campaign to retain the Ambulance Station

 

Brent Green Party and the Green Party Trade Union group are very concerned to learn of the proposed closure of Wembley Ambulance Station. This threat to the health of people in the surrounding areas which this would pose, seems particularly short-sighted and potentially dangerous. As stated on the Wembley Matters blog (https://wembleymatters.blogspot.com/.../999-join-battle...

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‘The closure would occur in the middle of a pandemic at a time of peak winter illness and falls, in a multi-racial community suffering from disproportionate numbers of Covid19 cases. A resource is being taken away from an area with a rapidly growing population as the result of high-rise developments In Alperton, Wembley Central and Wembley Park – areas close to the ambulance station.’

Unison has set out detailed objections to the proposal, Brent Green Party and the Green Party Trade Union group fully support their campaign to retain the Ambulance Station, we trust the MP’s for Brent will also give their support.

Peter Murry

Trade Union Liaison pp Brent Green Party

Co-Secretary Green Party Trade Union group

VICTORY! IN-HOUSE OF CLEANERS AT UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

 

VICTORY! IN-HOUSE OF CLEANERS AT UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

All cleaners on the University of London contract have been brought in-house, following a relentless campaign that led to the in-sourcing of their reception-based colleagues and security officers earlier this year.
You can donate to the campaign against outsourcing in the University of London here...

More details of the cleaners' victory here...

Next step is Stand with Security Officers at the University of Greenwich...

STOP THE DEPORTATION OF OSIME BROWN.

Osime Brown is 22 years old, he is profoundly autistic and developmentally younger than his peers. Osime is also learning disabled, dyslexic and due to his time in care has since been diagnosed with PTSD, and suffers with depression.
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Green Party US organisers from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

 

On Saturday 28th November at 6pm (UK time), GREEN PARTY TRADE UNION GROUP are excited to host a special discussion with two trade unionists and Green Party US organisers from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

November's US Presidential election saw the welcome defeat of Donald Trump, cheered by progressives the world over. But with a likely Republican senate, a reduced Democratic House majority, and poor results at a state and local level it is clear that the Democratic party has failed to deliver the thumping win it needed.

It is also clear that crucial victories - in Arizona, in Pennsylvania, and in Georgia - were delivered by the energies of social movements like Black Lives Matter and unions like UNITE HERE!. Nevertheless, the Democratic leadership has already signalled that it would rather shun these radical forces than build them up.

In this context, what should radicals in the US Left, labour unions and beyond be doing? How should they build on significant victories, like Florida's $15 minimum wage which won by more than 60% of the popular vote? What can we in the UK learn from this?

We'll be joined by Pittsburgh union organisers Shawn Domenico and Ed Grystar as they discuss with us the state of the US labour movement and how it relates to the developing US political situation.

Their talk will be followed by a Q&A, which promises to be informative for all involved.

Open to everyone, regardless of party or union membership. Please come, and encourage your friends and comrades from elsewhere to come along too!

Follow the link below to register and attend:

https://actionnetwork.org/.../party-politics-union...

Trade Unions & Human Rights in Colombian Universities

JFC and UCU present a special online event Trade Unions & Human Rights in Colombian Universities Monday 23 November, from 6.30pm Dear friends,   We are delighted to invite you to a special online event co-hosted by JFC, UCU and Colombia’s ASPU trade union for university workers. To register, click here or on the flyer image below.

Join us to hear from those defending human rights in Colombian universities, including the President of ASPU and UCU members who have supported and visited Colombia with JFC. We are also joined by activist and academic speakers from Colombia's National University, the largest public university in the country. Speakers: Pedro Hernández: President, ASPU Carolina Jiménez: Director of department of Political Sciences, National University of Colombia Douglas Chalmers: Past-President, UCU who visited Colombia with JFC in Feb 2020 Juanita Villamil: Law student, National University & District University Human Rights Network Hasan Dodwell: Director, JFC Chaired by Vicky Blake: President, UCU For more information, visit our website or email us at info@justiceforcolombia.org

Brent Trades Council MOTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE

 

MOTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE

Brent Trades Council notes:

1.Ongoing extreme weather events across the globe which have been exacerbated by climate breakdown: heat waves, wildfires, floods and hurricanes.
2. The 2018 IPCC report which warned of the dire consequences of exceeding 1.5C global average warming and that a societal transformation would be needed to avoid this, halving global carbon emissions by 2030; that despite this, global emissions have continued to rise.
3. That the climate crisis is a social justice issue, with those who have done least to cause the crisis facing the worst impacts.
4. That wealthy, industrialised countries have a responsibility to take on their fair share of emissions reductions; that the UK's target of net zero by 2050 is insufficient, and that the UK government is failing to implement policies to meet even this target.
5. That we also face a global and UK crisis of unemployment; that the global response to the Covid-19 pandemic represents an opportunity to invest in climate jobs, a just transformation and a fairer society; and that this opportunity has not been taken.
6. That the UN COP26 negotiations in Glasgow in November 2021 are crucial for the global response to climate change.
7. That UK civil society needs to exert maximum pressure on the government in the coming year for a green recovery and just transition in the UK, and to show leadership as COP26 host; that trade unions can play a key role in the COP26 coalition in which UK civil society has been organising as part of the wider global climate justice movement.

This (union branch) resolves:
1. To campaign, alongside allies in civil society for massive public investment in a green recovery that tackles the climate and ecological emergency, creates climate jobs and is underpinned by a fair deal for workers both here and in supply chains in the Global South.
2. To join the national mobilisations for protests during the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in November 2021.
3. To send a delegation to Glasgow / To donate towards the costs of trade union transport to Glasgow / To donate towards the costs of members wishing to join protests in Glasgow.
4. To send this motion to our regional and national organisation.

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Combat climate breakdown in school and beyond

 From the National Education Union Climate Change Network

Combat climate breakdown in school and beyond

 

Conference recognises

1. The COVID crisis has been one manifestation of environmental blowback.

2. Climate breakdown and mass extinction are accelerating.

3. The world needs a global green new deal with all countries co-operating to salvage human civilisation.

4. The COP in November 2021 will be a pivotal point.

5. The measures taken by the UK government are not adequate even to meet its existing targets but many local authorities have declared a climate emergency.

6. The refusal of the DFE to consider a curriculum review to make our education system adequate for the society we need and implement their legal obligation under Article 12 of the Paris Agreement is a betrayal of the children in our schools.

 

Resolves to

 

1. Review all national union activity and infrastructure to draw up a plan for complete eradication of greenhouse gas emissions and begin implementing it as rapidly as possible - with a report on progress at the 2022 conference.

2. Ensure that education in Just Transition is built into our reps training and call on Districts to incorporate it into local training.

3. Incorporate the huge range of creative work in developing climate themed education done by teachers and environmental campaigns into the Union’s CPD programme.

4. Take these points to the TUC to propose the rest of the trade union movement does the same.

5 Call for all schools, LAs and MATs to declare a climate emergency and to plan a path to zero greenhouse gas emissions by supporting the Let’s Go Zero 2030 campaign and for LAs to establish local Task Forces, comprising representatives of all relevant parties including school staff and students, parents, FE colleges, universities, employers and trade unions; to coordinate provision and support for Just Transition in local economies and  transition from school to training and work, with teacher unions represented in the local authority’s climate emergency policy process.

6. Work with the school students movement, other unions and campaigns in informing and mobilising our members in support of actions up to and beyond the November COP in Glasgow.