Between 7am and 9am on Friday 21 July, there will be a demo taking place at Putney Station.
Between 5 and 6pm there will be a similar demo taking place at Brentford Station.
If you can help at either of these locations, it will be much appreciated
It’s not just about jobs, it’s going to seriously affect the travelling public if these ticket office closures go ahead, particularly disabled and other vulnerable travellers.
Monday 13th March
– BMA Junior doctors begin their 3 day strike. There will be pickets at all major hospitals including North Middx and the Whittington from 7am-10am, and from 7.45pm-9pm
– Unite activists demonstrating at the three key government departments which control debt advice funding.
• 11.00 – 11.45 – Demo at Department for Work & Pensions (DWP), Caxton House, Tothill Street, SW1H 9NA (nearest tube St James Park)
• 11.45 – 12.30 – Demo at HM Treasury, 1 Horse Guards Road, SW1A 2HQ (nearest tube Westminster)
• 13.15 – 14.00 – Demo at Money & Pensions Service (MaPS), 120 Holborn, EC1N 2TD (nearest tube Chancery Lane)
– Islington and Haringey Stand Up to Racism Public Meeting 6pm, Finsbury Park Mosque, 7 St Thomas’s Rd, N4 2QH (see below). As well as speakers advertised, Danny Denny, General Secretary of the Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration will be talking about reparations for slavery. With the government ramping up racism towards refugees, the far right attacking hostels, and the suspension of Gary Lineker for speaking out about this, the meeting is both timely and important.
Wednesday 15th March
Educators, civil servants, doctors, university lecturers and rail workers strikes and the National Budget Day demonstration
There will be a national teacher’s strike organised by the NEU, in addition there will be national strikes by civil servants (PCS), doctors (BMA), University Lecturers (UCU) plus tube workers (RMT & ASLEF) in London.
There will be a picket line at Seven Sisters Tube depot in Westerfield Rd (near the overground entrance) from 5am until 3pm. There will also be picket lines at some Haringey schools (details to follows) but the main focus here has been on getting people to the demonstration.
A National Demonstration is planned to go from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square, assembling at 12pm on Park Lane. This is likely to be the largest weekday demonstration in a generation. Please share and come if you can. The main meeting place for people to go down to the demonstration from Haringey is Finsbury Park Station(by M&S) at 10.30am, with some people also meeting up at Seven Sisters (Overground entrance) and Alexandra Palace Station also at 10.30am.
Thursday 16th March
– Second day of the National NEU strike. All schools in Haringey will be affected, with many having picket lines (more details to follow).
– National rail strikes on the 16th and 18th March – picket lines at Kings Cross and Euston (more details to follow)
Saturday 18th March
National Resist Racism Demonstration organised by the TUC and Stand Up to Racism, from the BBC HQ in Portland Place to Parliament Square.. People from Haringey will be meeting up at Finsbury Park Tube (by M&S) and Turnpike Lane Tube at 11am to go down there.
Follow this link: https://www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/email-st-mungo-s-to-demand-fair-pay-for-its-workers
Demand that St Mungo’s pay their workers a fair wage, and let the CEO know that you support the striking workers in their aims to achieve this
There was a meeting of workplace reps from the London & Eastern Region that took place at the Royal National Hotel in London on Wednesday 24th May 2023, at which Sharon Graham, the General Secretary of Unite, gave a presentation to explain the direction that she feels the union should be going in.
Since Sharon Graham was elected General Secretary of Unite some twenty months ago, she has made it her goal to make some major changes to the way things get done.
She has launched a no-holds-barred investigation into the Birmingham hotel project where overcharging to the tune of around £30 million took place.
Another way she is trying to get things done is by setting up sector-wide combines. In the London bus sector, this had already been set up, and we have quarterly meetings for both stewards and convenors from all London bus operators. There is now a nationwide combine for bus operators set up, which has had several meetings. The process is in place to set up a docks combine. Other combines are in the pipeline.
Collective bargaining has always been the best way to achieve results and if efforts can be co-ordinated across a whole sector and not just involving one employer, there is hope that greater goals can be reached.
Leverage campaigns have been very effective in the past, and Sharon was involved in a number of these before she was elected GS, and these are set to continue when necessary.
All in all, it was an excellent meeting; interesting, thought-provoking, and motivating too.
💪 Unite members at St Mungo’s are striking for a 10% pay rise after our pay has been cut in real terms by 30% since 2010. At the same time, the salary of our CEO has increased by 77% since 2013, from £107k to £189,418.
🏠St Mungo’s is a leading UK homelessness charity in the UK, with many workers supporting homeless people on the frontline.
✊We’ll be on strike for 4 for weeks from 30th May. Come along to one of our pickets if you can – details below!
🗣️ We’ll be holding rallies over the course of the strike. We’re particularly keen to have striking workers come along and say a few words so if that is you or you know someone who is involved in a dispute or has been recently and happy to say a few words, please do get in touch!
🫶 We also have a hardship fund and are very grateful for any contributions and for those who can take it to their branch and/or trades council! More details about the strike can be found here, along with the branch bank details at the bottom for any contributions:
https://www.housingworkers.org.uk/readevents.html?event_id=256
Dear Friends and Comrades,
Protect the right to strike – Monday 22 May starting at 6:00 PM in Parliament Square SW1P 3BD
This Monday the TUC has called an emergency protest against the Government’s plan to abolish the right to strike.
If passed and if unamended, this Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill would allow Government ministers to order many staff to work or be sacked.
The Bill covers NHS staff, transport workers, firefighters, teachers, lecturers and more. Including over 5 million workers, it would mean that effective strikes could be outlawed at the whim of the Government.
As people get poorer and desperate, the Government is increasingly banning strikes and protests. Yesterday essential workers were clapped, today they’re being forced into poverty, tomorrow they can be sacked.
We can’t rely on a future Labour government – we need determined campaigning and a huge wave of anger to defend democratic rights.
Unite has just published research into the costs of renationalising the entire UK energy network:
“Taking public control of the UK’s energy network could reduce bills, reduce inflation, and pay for itself in a few years, reveals new research by Unite the Union.
“Unite Investigates “Renationalising Energy – costs and savings” considers how a publicly run energy network could use the massive profits of Britain’s energy giants to reduce household bills and fund the transition to a green future with secure jobs.
“The report reveals that companies made £45 billion profit from the UK domestic energy system in 2022. If that money had been kept in public hands, it could have been used to save each household £1,800 on their energy bills.”
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Next meeting: Wednesday, 19th April 2023. 7.30-9.30 pm
Coffee Shop Area on the Ground Floor of Hounslow House, Bath Road, Hounslow.
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