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Remember the dead and fight for the living
12:15pm 28 April 2021Click here to register for the meeting.
The covid pandemic again prevents us from getting together in public so join Waltham Forest Trades Council’s zoom meeting to mark Workers Memorial Day at 12:15pm on 28 April.
This year’s focus will be the pandemic and the preventable loss of life and misery from ill health arising from poor preparedness, a refusal to accept the science on things such as the airborne transmission risk, a refusal to act quickly and accept the need for urgent lockdown and to not come out of that too early when it was obvious not to do so, the abdication of our health and safety police – the HSE, and the government’s and employers’ initial refusal to acknowledge the trade unions’ role in this as recognised by strike votes at DVLA, the courts etc.
We will also raise other issues such as decent pay rises and treatment for those who have worked so hard through the pandemic, the fight against the gig economy and zero hours contracts, resisting restrictions to the right to protest and the forthcoming COP26 in Glasgow where the future of our survival on the planet will be debated.
Goodlord strikes over £6,000 pay cuts
Strikes over attempts to slash staff salaries by up to £6,000 at lettings software provider Goodlord will disrupt services for Winkworth and other London estate agents, Unite, the UK’s leading union, warned today (Wednesday 10 February).
More than 20 Unite members employed in Goodlord’s London-based referencing department, which provides tenant checks for estate agents, will undertake a series of strikes between Monday 22 February and Friday 26 February.
Under the fire and rehire plans, Goodlord’s referencing staff’s pay would plummet from £24,000 to £18,000 – less than the London living wage of £21,157 – while their maternity, holiday and sick pay would also be reduced.
Referencing staff are the only workers employed by the company to have been singled out for fire and rehire attacks.
Impacted staff have been told by the company that since they are now expected to work permanently from home after their central London office was closed in October, they do not need to live in London.… Read on ...