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SHEFFIELD NEEDS A PAY RISE! A Happy New Year to all trade unionists and workers and your families – we wish you all a better year for 2021 than the year that’s just gone. The pandemic in 2020 exposed all the terrible fault lines in our society. We have seen how key workers have been …
PRESS RELEASE 20 November 2020 Sheffield’s Education Trade Unions call on City Council to act now! * Stop COVID infection rates rising and spreading into the wider community! Sheffield’s Education Unions representing teachers, lecturers and support staff in our schools and universities have combined to write to Sheffield City Council Leaders urging action to make them …
PRESS RELEASE 21 October 2020 Sheffield is “The Low Wage Capital of the UK” You can’t live on 2/3 of Minimum Wage! £41M funding goes to business not workers We need funding for an effective local track and trace system NOW! Reacting to today’s announcement …
Sheffield TUC supports the democratic right to protest in a free country and condemns the criminalisation of XR activists who picketed Rupert Murdoch’s News International and Lord Rothermere’s Daily Mail and General Trust (DGMT) as part of a climate action protest on 4th September 2020. We are appalled that police have used Section 241 of …
20 August 2020 Damning report from Public Health England say workplaces are 2nd highest cause of COVID outbreaks after Care Homes * The rush to open up the economy without proper safeguards has killed workers and put many more at risk * “Right from the start, we warned that the Government’s rush to end the …
Join us on Tuesday 18th August for the national We Own It! Day of Action for a community-based track and trace system – not the failed privatised SERCO national system which is letting us all down! ———- Forwarded message ——— From: Pascale Robinson <pascale@betterbusesgm.org.uk> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 at 14:54 Subject: We Own It Day of …
Women’s Lives Matter July 15 at 9:31 PM · **Women’s Lives Matter Campaign – Statement** 5 women murdered in 7 weeks in Doncaster. We are outraged to hear of yet another woman’s murder in Doncaster – that makes 5 women murdered in one town and 8 altogether in the South Yorkshire region since the Covid-19 lockdown …
Sheffield TUC CV-19 Council of Action SHEFFIELD NEEDS A PAY RISE! #lifebeforeprofit PRESS RELEASE Tuesday 9th July 2020 Rishi Sunak’s announcements won’t stop A TSUNAMI OF JOB LOSSES say Trade Unions * Furlough should be extended especially for sectors like Arts and Culture, Sports Gyms and Entertainment etc. which are not allowed to reopen yet * …
PRESS RELEASE Thursday 2nd July 2020 Socially-distanced protest outside Hallamshire Hospital 1230 till 1.30pm Friday 3rd July 2020 – organised by Sheffield Save Our NHS We ♥ Our NHS! You’ve been through a lot since 1948– but we stand by you! Born 1948 under a LABOUR Government, opposed by the Tories! Savaged by spending cuts …
Sheffield Community Contact Tracers is the way to go! Neighbourhood model using Public Health expertise works We need effective contact tracing system NOW! It’s the only proven way to get control of the spread of COVID 19 National £45M SERCO Test and Trace contract is a farce SERCO breached data protection rules by disclosing tracers’ …