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Author: Reuben Bard-Rosenburg \ st mungo's broadway \ Strike \ trade unions \ Wood Green
St Mungo’s Broadway strike rally in Harringey: rocketing union membership, and a will to persist
By Reuben Bard-Rosenburg Yesterday, workers at homeless charity St Mungo’s Broadway demonstrated outside Haringey Civic Centre, as they marked the final day of their week long strike. “One director told us that we wouldn’t find any work elsewhere because we were unemployable”, one worker told me. With bosses like this, its perhaps possible to understand […]
Author: Tayeiba Shaa \ Barnet \ Barnet housing Action Group \ Housing \ job centre \ Protest \ report \ Wood Green
Sanctions protest – taking action on benefits
by Tayeiba Shaa September 11th saw a pan national day of demonstrations outside key job centres around the cuts in benefits, in particular with regards to ‘sanctioning’. According to the citizen’s advise Bureau benefit sanctions are described as: “To get Universal Credit, you have to meet certain work-related requirements. These are the things you have […]
Author: Janette Evans \ Barnet \ Barnet housing Action Group \ benefits \ Housing \ job centre \ Protest \ report \ Reverend Paul Nichols \ Unite \ Wood Green
No sanctions – no targets – action at Wood Green job centre
by Janette Evans When I first got the idea for Barnet Housing Action Group to hold a protest outside the job centre in Wood Green – it was for very personal reasons; my daughter had moved into the hostel at the Y.M.C.A. and I had got to know a few of the young people there […]
Haringey \ Protest \ St Anns Hospital \ Wood Green
Say No to the St Anns Hospital Sell Off 28th July
Say NO to the St Anns Hospital Sell Off! Say YES to improvements and expansion of services at St Anns! Demonstrate on Monday 28th July at 6.15pm at the Council’s Pre-application meeting Civic Centre, Wood Green N22 Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust propose to sell off 2/3rds of NHS land at St Ann’s to developers […]
Author: Heidi Saarinen \ Lordship N22 \ Paddy Power \ Wood Green
It’s not just chosen few who should get a say on high streets
by Heidi Saarinen, of the Lordship N22 Campaign Group – @LordshipN22Camp ‘As a community, we must remember that the responsibility of the future of our communities, our place here and now and more long term, is really with us’. Having been involved in the local Lordship N22 Campaign to stop Paddy Power taking over the former Lordship […]
Betting shops \ Community Campaigns \ Haringey \ Paddy Power \ Wood Green
No Paddy Power at the Lordship N22
From the campaign; Earlier this year Paddy Power Bookmakers applied to Haringey Council for a premises licence to open a betting shop on Lordship Lane in Wood Green potentially making it the third betting shop in a small parade of 20 shops. There was overwhelming objection to the application by local residents and businesses, some of whom had […]
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