GPTU Minutes : For Minutes of past GPTU meetings follow the links below.

"Working Class representation", GP Conference hardship fund and preparations, Pensions: possibility of concerted action by teaching,lecturing and other unions, new leaflet and website?

 

Young Greens´ pledge for candidates, Conference report back, Preparations for TUC march, support for Redhall Workers, Unemployed workers´ group

 

Support for low paid, (often migrant) workers, support for BA dispute, GPTU affiliated to the Coalition of Resistance, only using unionised print firms for GP national work, Election of Committee 2011-12

 

Statements of support to Students and Young Greens, GP Conference Motions and Fringes. Anti-cuts campaigns, Solidarity with Kent Uni NUS, Rhonda and London Fire Service redundancies. ASLEF and RMT disputes

 

Anti-Cuts Campaigns, CoR National Council conference, Possible ASLEF bid for E.Coast line, GP Conference, Oldham and Tower Hamlets by-elections.

 

Has GPEW affiliated to the Coalition of Resistance? (Green Left & GPTU have), CoR Conference on 27th November, GP conference, Irish crisis, Unite, FBU, Unison, RMT, Southwark Council, Community Care magazine, Noel Lynch ´s Green world article.

 

Request that the Green Party affiliate to CoR, launch of CACCTU pamphlet, Students/ Young Greens update, Spring Conference.

 

Anti cuts march, John McDonnell EDM Lawful Industrial Action (Minor Errors), Pamphlet launch: The Campaign against Climate Change Trade Union Group, Brent ccc meeting, Zero Carbon by 2030.

 

Conference: motions, stalls, fringes and elections, Emergency resolution on welfare reform, Anti cuts campaigns, GP Office Unions.

 

Peace camp evicted from Parliament Sq.: BA Dispute settled: GP conference autumn 2010: Anti-cuts campaigns: Million Jobs Commission: C.Lucas deputy of parliamentary TU group; Irish Greens anti-TU proposals: Standards councils being abolished.

 

A.Durango: IT awarded compensation, Green Party Autumn Conference 2010: possible motions & other conference matters, RMT statement re plans for driverless tube trains, Victory To Colombian Oil Workers!

 

GPTU REPORT to Green party regional Council 2010:Autumn Conference Fringes: Education Cuts? Support the candidature of Paul Holmes in Unison gen Sec election: Some ?dissident? Irish greens.

 

Conference motions passed: A fair deal for pensioners, Reducing income inequality: support to Alberto Durango campaign and BA strikers; HE cuts (Kings & LSE), Sussex occupation continues.

 

Jerry Hicks, BA statement, FBU donation, new leaflet, Whittington Hospital demo

 

Speech by Cristian Dominguez, the National Secretary of Environment and Resources of CSUTCB, Hands of my workmate Motion passed, Conference, CCCTU conference, Unions at GPEW HQ, Joel Kovel visit

 

Unison 4, Respect and Birmingham, Report back from GP conference, Vestas, Battersea Red/Green Alliance

 

Unison 4, Respect and Birmingham, Report back from GP conference, Vestas, Battersea Red/Green Alliance

 

OPT, Unison 4, Election strategy, Trade union councils, conference arrangements and emergency motions, convention of the left, Climate camp

 

Unison General Secretary´s; name misspelt again, Optimum Population Trust, GLA tube strike motion, SOAS cleaners, VESTAS, GP conference.

 

Optimum Population Trust, Academy and Trust schools,ELECTION, Tube strike, Stalin Bermudez/SOAS dispute, CWU statements,GPTU Disability Spokesperson´s Report, Green Party conference, Draft Emergency motion

 

New banner design approved, (on Blog), thanks and complements to Romayne Phoenix, Workers´ Memorial Day, (pictures on Blog) UNITED CAMPAIGN AGAINST POLICE VIOLENCE, CaCC demo against coal fired power station proposals, Low wage demo at London Uni Bloomsbury campuses, Strangers into Citizens march. Visteon sit in, Vestas IoW wind turbine factory closure, Lewisham Trust School.

 

PUT PEOPLE FIRST MARCH (28/3/2009) and later G20 protests, noted, Oxford depository, Conference report : (Emergency motions on Gaza, Heathrow passed, Successful fringe on Welfare rights Objections to Optimum Populaltion Trust stall,) Visteon workers dispute statement, RMT & Euro elections statement

 

Farzad Kamangar, Jerry Hicks, RMT was standing candidates in forthcoming euro elections, conference,

 

Unionisation of Green Party employees , minimum wages motions to AGC list, Support for Jerry Hicks;, GPTU was registered as a supporting organisation of CALL RMT demo re London Underground job cuts: GPTU Statement on London Underground redundancies Caroline Lucas (et al) letter on social dumping; in Europe

 

Contacting AGC re minimum wages motions, non response from any elected Green to the "Writing off Welfare", WORK-LIFE BALANCE AND THE GREENING OF WORK and THE ROLE OF TRADE UNIONS. CCCTU conference. GP conference arrangements, Support for Jerry Hicks

 

Advice to Green party employees that they should all join appropriate Unions, Southwark Council motion on minimum wage, Campaign against Climate Change March, Public meeting with Jean Lambert, GP Conference Motions,non response to the "Writing off Welfare" paper.

 

Andy Hewett GPTU rep on GPRC, paper by Alan Wheatley and Anne Gray on welfare reform, Convention Of The Left , Expert TU speakers, Campaign against Climate Change public meeting, Green Left/London Federation meeting on Recession and New Green Deal, Motions for GPTU newsletter, a minimum wage motion to Southwark Council

 

Andy Collingwood agreed to be GPTU Northern spokesperson, Gp conference report, On line diary of GPTU related/relevant events for blog, Convention of the left, Strike action over public sector pay?

 

Pat Carmody Union rep at Pell & Bales had been reinstated, Brighton GPTU conference, 16-17 July Unison strike, GP conference.

 

GPTU Conference (fringes , migrants, SERTUC/CPBF, Anti-academy), Fundraising, Autumn public meeting, GLeft Summer Event, Northern Spokesperson.

 

GPTU Conference, Tolpuddle, Migration motion out of order, UAF demo, Rise protest against Boris Johnson's decision re anti-racism, GLeft Summer Event, Midlands Spokesperson, Socialist Resistance event.

 

Motion on Chinese arms shipment, Campaign Against Climate Change Trade Union Group, Gptu conference, Report to GPRC, conference motions, Tolpuddle, CPBF, cultural events.

 

meeting with Bob Crow, Carver/Phoenix/Hewitt report on GPTU activities, Brighton conference, Global Greens Congress. migration policy, Chinese arms shipment, Tesco 2, Campaign Against Climate Change TU group,

 

CCCTU organising Committee, report to GPRC, Remploy dispute, Shelter : statements in support of strikers issued by Derek Wall, CATP, Brighton summer event; SE London health rally, lack of action re disabled workers? .

 

Officers´Reports, Committee election, Campaign Against Climate Change TU, Fringe at Unison conference in Bournemouth. .

 

RMT demo at City Hall, Institute of Employment Rights conference on Lisbon Treaty , Conference and AGM arrangements, Motions and emergency NHS motion, Meeting with M.Rix of GMB , Heathrow Rally 25/3/2008, Aldermaston, (Easter Monday), London Draft manifesto, closure of Remploy factory in Brixton, Birmingham council privatisation.

 

Conference: motions, fringe on migrant workers. Remploy letter of protest, GMB letter re Heathrow, RMT demo against E.London line privatisation, J.Lambert MEP statement re Viking ferries, IER February conference on Lisbon treaty, support for Karen Reissman posted to website.

 

Poems/lyrics needed for CATP website, GPTU SPOKESPERSONS: Cllr Romayne Phoenix (Lewisham), Paul Cooney (Huddersfield), Phelim MacCafferty (Brighton), Cllr Elise Benjamin (Oxford): Conference Motions, Migrant Workers, Min/max wage, Disabled workers, Statement issued re Oxford Uni Union; CCC TU Conference 9/2/2008

 

CATP website, Spending plans, NHS Demo, OFFU day school, STW World against war conference 1/12/2007, Campaign Against Climate Change March, CCC TU Conference 9/2/2008

 

CONFERENCE REPORT SEPTEMBER 07 including: Conference Meeting Speakers: Paul Cooney on NHS reforms, Dr Joseph Healy on Darzi Report and Patients´ rights. Motions POA & public sector pay (passed), Minimum Wage (referred back), Housing and Racism (out of time).

LONDON MEETING QEH; including: Eco-Socialist gathering, Paris October 2007; Conference arrangements & motions, Green Left Leadership Debate Meeting postponed to 16/10/2007, Campaign Against Tube Privatisation, RMT, Patio heaters, Social/cultural event, Darzi Report

LONDON MEETING QEH; including: Whole Food Markets, Meeting with Alan Wheatley (GP Disability Spokesperson), Letter to GPEX, B.Crow proposal for independent political action, Patio heaters, Metronet Lobby.CWU dispute.

LONDON MEETING QEH; including: Unison Conference meeting, Patio Heaters, CWU dispute, Suspension of Karen Reissmann, London Met Uni dispute , Whole Food Markets.

LONDON MEETING QEH; including: Remploy, Papers For All, Unison Conference, Minimum Wage, Housing Policy.

 

LONDON MEETING QEH; including: UCU language teaching dispute, Mayday, Levellers day, PCS dispute, visit to Wm Morris gallery, new leaflet, Tolpuddle.

at GP CONFERENCE SWANSEA: including: NHS motion and campaign, Workers Beer Company, Exxon, Election of officers, Union representation of councillors, Election of Derek Wall.

LONDON MEETING QEH; including: Keep our NHS public, PCS nationwide one day strike, RMT Cleaners demo, BA Cabin Staff, TGWU Rentokil cleaners, Green Left, International Womens Festival in Oxford, Report from Marc Scheimann on launch conference of the Trade Union Freedom Bill Campaign on 31st January 2007.

LONDON MEETING QEH; Notes including:Sian Berry statement on NHS, RMT cleaners, Swansea Conference,ALMOs and council housing funding, GP policy against academy schools, PCSA dispute, NHS conference 20/1/2007.

LONDON MEETING QEH; Climate Change Demo, New Leaflet, Conference fringe (jointly with Green Left), "Eco -socialism and Trades Unions", Green Left report back; METROLINE & METRONET (London fed motion), WELFARE RIGHTS DEMO, Sue Tibbles´ Oxford report

LONDON MEETING QEH; Does GP walk the talk on TU´s?, Letter re Police dispute, Leaflet text, Climate change demo, How NOT TO fundraise with Workers´ Beer, relations with Green Left, Amicus/TGWU merger , NHS logistics privatisation.

LONDON MEETING QEH; Brighton Conference plans, Motions (TU RIGHTS,HE DISPUTE, YAHOO/GOOGLE BOYCOTT), Burston, Grunwick Anniversary, NOVEMBER 4TH 2006 CLIMATE DEMO, SERTUC (anti BNP and pro Robert Tressel), Organising for Fighting Unions Conference 11/11/2006.