Month: September 2017
Solidarity with McDonald’s Workers fighting for Rights at Work – Fundraising Music Night
Barnet Trades Union Council presents for Trades Union Congress Young Workers Month 2017
7pm Friday, November 17th at the Elephant Inn, Finchley, 283 Ballards Ln, London N12 8NR
A night of music and solidarity. All proceeds to the official support fund!
McDonald’s UK workers are striking for the first time in UK history, over the company’s failure to offer them acceptable working conditions, job security or even an affordable living wage. Workers have found themselves living on low wages – with no guarantee of hours. Now, workers feel as if they have no alternative but to take action – all in line with their basic workplace rights and company procedures. This McDonald’s UK strike forms part of a growing global movement calling for the fair and decent treatment of workers.McStrike_Leaflet_WuTip_2
Despite McDonald’s being one of the UK’s largest, most profitable, and globally recognised employers, its employees are subjected to difficult, yet avoidable working conditions – working on insecure zero-hour contracts for low-wages. This historic strike forms part of a growing global workers movement for fairness. In the USA, more than 10 million workers in the U.S. are on a path to $15 an hour, and 20 million workers total have won wage increases since 2012.
Now, McDonald’s workers in the UK will fight to achieve the same impressive results seen by their transatlantic colleauges. Barnet Trades Council invites anyone who wants to support this struggle, and thanks the Elephant Inn and our excellent band, Wutip. See you all there!
Download the leaflet here: McStrike_Leaflet_WuTip_2
No More Austerity Demo 1st October Manchester
Theresa May and the Conservative Party have got themselves in a real mess, with a dramatically weakened Government, a divided party, and no obvious way out of the situation. Join Barnet TUC as we head up for a national protest against them.
The details for the train to Manchester are:
01/10/2017 London Euston (EUS) 08:20 Manchester Piccadilly (MAN) 11:02
01/10/2017 Manchester Piccadilly (MAN) 16:35 London Euston (EUS) 18:46
Contact Helen Davies (07432 733168) or the Barnet UNISON office (020 8359 2088) and leave your contact details if you want a ticket. Tickets will go on a first come first served basis.
UNITY FOLK CLUB… helping to keep left-wing folk singing alive
The Unity Folk Club meets on the last Monday of every month at 7.45 p.m. (doors open at 7.30) at:
TORRIANO MEETING HOUSE
99 TORRIANO AVENUE
NW5 2RX
NEAREST TUBE KENTISH TOWN
BUSES 393, 134, 214, C2
Next session: Monday 25th September 2017
Everybody welcome, especially singers and poets who sing or read against war, capitalism, exploitation, privatisation, imperialism and globalisation.
Admission fee: £4
On Tuesday 24 October, the National Education Union and our partners will hold a major public rally and lobby of Parliament.
The National Education Union is focusing on improving two aspects of education funding – how much money goes into the system and how the money is shared across schools and colleges with different needs.
That’s why on Tuesday 24 October the National Education Union will hold a mass lobby of Parliament to protest against education funding cuts. This lobby has been timed to take place a month before the Chancellor delivers his budget statement. MPs will be asked to put pressure on the Chancellor to find the funding needed to reverse the cuts and invest in our children and young people.
In terms of how much money goes into the system, we know that, as pupil numbers rise, funding for their education is not rising accordingly. Since 2015, schools in England have had their funding per pupil frozen while inflation and other costs rise, leading to an effective £2.8 billion real-terms cut.
Schools are having to increase class sizes, reduce curriculum choices and make reductions to teaching and support staff posts. Some schools have been forced to seek help from parents to plug the holes in their budgets for books and resources.
CAMDEN TRADES COUNCIL PUBLIC MEETING
£5 waged/ £3 students/ unwaged
Leaves Eversholt Street, NW1 (side of Euston Station) at
6.30am Returns from Manchester at 4.30pm Book your ticket here:
Stopping the use of Glyphosate in Public spaces in Barnet – Alternatives exist!
Public Meeting on Thursday, 28th of September 7 pm – 9 pm
At Café Tintico 2-4 Station Road
Finchley N3 2 RY
(50 Yards from Finchley Central Station on the corner of Ballards Lane , next to the railway bridge).
with Nick Mole of the Pesticides Action Network (www.pan-uk.org)
The World Health Organisation has stated that it is highly probable that Glyphosate is carcinogenic.
It is also an endocrinal disruptor affecting our hormones, and also kills microbes thus being detrimental to intestinal flora.
As it is soluble in water and is chemically stable, it is highly damaging to all forms of aquatic life and soil organisms, including earthworms and many other forms of life.
Why not visit our petition on the Barnet Petition website? Current ePetitions
CONFRONTING THE RISE OF RACISM, ISLAMOPHOBIA & ANTI-SEMITISM
