GREENER JOBS ALLIANCE AGM 14 MARCH 2023

 

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