Equity is distressed to hear about plans to sell Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, and the imminent closure of its program of events. We understand that the current programming team, who have established BGWMC as an icon of significant importance to the community over the past 20 years, have been given 2 months’ notice to shut down and vacate the venue by Monday 29th July. The potential loss of yet another London venue for queer nightlife is devastating and represents a significant loss of work for performers in the drag and cabaret sector. Not only is the BGWMC venue an asset of tremendous value to the community, but the programme of events is also a vital and consistent source of income for so many professionals. Save Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club!

• If the DWP and G4S want to end this dispute, they need to make sure security guards are paid enough to live on.  • G4S has been handed millions by the Government, yet our members can barely afford to feed their families.  • The work they do is hard; they are attacked with alarming regularity just for doing their job.  • Our members deserve a better deal - please support our campaign to make work better for G4S employees across the UK.

Thie last government has shown not one shred of care or concern for the teaching profession and presided over 14 years of neglect and decline. We know the scale of the challenge the new government faces. We’re not asking for quick fixes. Our members want lasting solutions that will repair our broken schools and colleges. We want to work with the Government to secure good industrial relations through dialogue and consensus building, including: • social partnership with workforce trades unions and employers and strengthen collective bargaining rights; • restoring confidence in the independent teachers’ pay review process; • requiring all school and college employers to recognise trade unions for the purpose of collective bargaining. 

 We, the undersigned call on NatWest to reverse the decision to close the Upper Edmonton Natwest branch… SAVE OUR BANK BRANCH.

These circumstances directly impact 84 hardworking and devoted members of NHS staff, many of whom have been loyal employees for up to 35 years. Previous outsourcing experiments such as Carillion and Circle have shown that the private sector ultimately fails to provide the long term stability that the NHS requires to grow and function successfully, and the burden of the consequences is carried by staff, patients, and the taxpayer.

Eurostar claim that “Whether it’s a hearty meal or a light bite, we’re passionate about our food.” But they’re less passionate about fairness for the people who get the food onto their trains. Eurostar has outsourced the supply of food on its services to a company called Rail Gourmet, owned by the travel food multinational SSP Group.  SSP made an operating profit of £55 million in the UK over 2023, while the Group paid a £46 million dividend to its shareholders in the same year.  Rail Gourmet only pay the London Living Wage of £13.15 an hour and their workers get inadequate sick pay and no decent pension, meaning they live hand to mouth while shareholders profit and Eurostar wash their hands of these essential workers.  Rail Gourmet’s Eurostar caterers have had enough and they’re fighting back. They’re campaigning and taking industrial action in pursuit of a decent pay rise, sick pay and pensions. They need your help.  Please add your name to this petition to the Directors of Rail Gourmet and Eurostar calling on them to ensure that hard-working catering staff are made a new offer that can settle their dispute. 

St Mungo's is a homelessness charity whose primary aim is to end homelessness.  Prioritising profit above all else when it comes to selling the site is contrary to this objective. This sale has put 20 frontline workers at risk of redundancy and 44 clients at risk of homelessness. Unaffordable housing is the key driver behind homelessness and it’s unforgivable that a charity committed to ending homelessness is considering selling to a private developer who will inevitably be motivated by profit and thus contributing to the housing crisis and homelessness within the borough, at a time when homelessness is increasing and such services are needed more than ever.

A YES vote in the ballot would lead to us winning the power and protection of a union. It would be the first ever agreement of its kind with Amazon in the UK.  Union recognition would mean we have much more power to negotiate our pay, hours, conditions and crucially our safety.  But Amazon is doing everything they can to stop us. Posters telling us to cancel union membership. Intimidation from supervisors. Brainwashing meetings encouraging workers to vote against union recognition. Amazon wants this issue to go away quietly, but we won’t back down.  It’s a David v Goliath battle. We may not have Amazon’s money, but we have the union movement behind us. The more people who sign this petition, the more we show Amazon that everyone in the country is on our side.  Can you sign this petition to show Amazon that people across the UK are backing us?

You can only win a fair pay deal collectively, by showing your strength of feeling and willingness to take action. 

PCS has played a vital role in advocating for the rights and interests of employees at IWM for many years. Derecognising PCS union could lead to worsened working conditions. It would not only strip employees of their collective bargaining power but also undermine the principles of democracy and representation in the workplace.  80% of the workers voted for union recognition - IWM management's decision to derecognise two of the three unions in the workplace undermines the workers' freedom to choose which union they want to represent them.  Union recognition is a vital right at work, enabling employees and employers to negotiate in the workplace, fairly and in good faith. That can't happen if the employer just decides to change the rules when it suits them. The staff team at Imperial War Museum sites around the country have shown loyalty and dedication to their mission, enabling people to have an informed understanding of modern war and its impact on individuals and society. Please help them stand up for their important employment rights.

Border Force Officers at Heathrow are responsible for admitting travellers into the country, and for detecting and preventing possible security risks. Their experience and expertise is vital to the security of our borders. In order to perform this vital role, Border Force Officers need a shift roster that gives them a healthy work/life balance, allows them to perform their duties to their full potential without being exhausted by long shifts, stops them worrying about finding short-notice childcare, or struggling to work around their medical needs. We need your support in sending a loud and clear message to senior managers at Heathrow: Border Force officers deserve a fair roster.

Over time we have seen a substantial change in our job role.  The cases we handle are far more complex and challenging as services user needs have changed. We are now handling cases that can include severe mental health, neglect, abuse, exploitation and other situations which previously were exclusively dealt with by Social Workers. Lancashire County Council found the majority of Social Care Support Officers to be working at a higher grade, but our regrading did not result in our grade increasing. The service will simply not survive if skilled and dedicated workers are forced to leave because of low pay and lack of recognition for our work.