There will be lots of music on the day ranging from brass bands to samba, and London’s KaraUke ukulele group are inviting any ukulele players to join them on the march to form a Put People First giant ukulele ensemble.
Just turn up with your uke and listen out for your fellow four stringers. Read more…
March 16th, 2009
Here is a map of where coaches can drop off, park and collect people for the Put People First March in London on March 28.
There are more and more coaches being added to our coaches page all the time, as organisations all over the country are able to organise them. Check out if there’s one near you – a full coach is one of the greener and cheaper ways to get down to the march.
March 9th, 2009
Tax avoidance by wealthy UK residents through tax havens costs UK tax payers at least £4 billion a year, according to new research published by the TUC.
The TUC research is the first ever analysis of the role of individual tax havens in tax lost to the UK. It shows that most of the loss to tax havens is caused by Jersey, Switzerland, the Isle of Man and Guernsey.
This money would be enough for the Government to meet its target to halve child poverty by 2010. But it’s currently being squirreled away in tax havens, rather than being spent in the real economy here helping us fight recession. With the tax take falling now because of the downturn, there can be no better time to get tough with the super-rich, so many of whom did so much to throw the world into this financial crisis.
We welcome the Prime Minister’s call for the G20 to get tough on tax havens when they meet in London this April, and this will be an important demand of the unions, development and faith groups organising the ‘Put People First’ march for jobs, justice and climate on 28 March in the run up to the G20 summit.
March 2nd, 2009
Creating thousands of green jobs could not only help the UK slash its CO2 emissions, but investment in a new low carbon workforce could also limit the length and severity of the current recession, says the TUC in the latest of its Touchstone pamphlets published today (Thursday).
February 26th, 2009
Gordon Brown today launched the Road to the London Summit document at a Downing Street press conference. This is billed as ‘the plan for getting the global economy back on track through a new global deal.’ See: Read more…
February 18th, 2009
A Double Decker bus being arranged for this March from Southampton, for more information contact Matt Tipper or Ian Woodland in the Unite District office on 02380 835914.
February 18th, 2009
The assembly point for the march is now confirmed. People should gather from 11am on Victoria Embankment by Temple tube station on March 28th. The postcode is WC2R 2 PP. This is a link to a google map.
The nearest tube is Temple, but Embankment, Blackfriars and Waterloo are short walks away too opening up other possibilities.
Coaches will probably be able to drop off on Victoria Embankment or Waterloo Bridge but this will be confirmed later.
February 9th, 2009
To support the Put People First march and rally on March 28th, the TUC’s Activist Academy will be running a weekend school for young trade union activists (under 27s) on Saturday February 28th and Sunday March 1st at Ruskin College Trade Union Education centre, Oxford.
The weekend school aims to engage young trade unionists in the Put People First campaign, supporting union efforts to mobilise, and raising the profile of unions at the event. If you’re interested in getting involved, you can find out more at the Stronger Unions blog.
February 9th, 2009
