Strikes for a Residing Wage & Grenfell – Thursday 14th December 2017 was six months on from the tragic hearth at Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, and as on each 14th of the month since there was a silent stroll to recollect the victims and name for justice. However earlier within the night I photographed two teams of staff placing for a dwelling wage.
Star Wars Strike Picket Picturehouse – Hackney
On the day that the ‘Star Wars’ movie, ‘Final of the Jedi’ opened at Picturehouse Hackney, staff on the chain held a strike calling for them to be paid the London Residing Wage. Employees and supporters demonstrated in solidarity on the pavement outdoors the cinema because it opened.
Picturehouse is part of the multinational firm Cineworld and has refused to recognise the commerce union which the employees belong to, BECTU, as an alternative claiming they’re represented by an organization run employees discussion board. In addition to a struggle for pay that is additionally for union recognition.
Members voted to dissolve the employees discussion board in 2019 and is now not a recognised commerce union. Though there have been some pay will increase some staff across the begin of this 12 months had been nonetheless solely paid £9.80 an hour, over £2 in need of the London Residing Wage.
Star Wars Strike Picket Picturehouse
Metropolis cleaners strike at LHH for Residing Wage – Gracechurch St, Metropolis
United Voices of the World union and supporters protested noisily outdoors the workplaces of Lee Hecht Harrison (LHH), a big firm within the coronary heart of London’s monetary district with a £2 million revenue and a 32% improve in income this 12 months.
The cleaners of their workplaces should not employed by LHH and the cleansing was outsourced to Metropolis Central Cleansing & Assist Providers Restricted who had rejected their demand for a dwelling wage and unlawfully threatened them with dismissal in the event that they strike.
The cleaners had been being paid the nationwide minimal wage of £7.50 an hour, far lower than the London Residing wage of £10.20 per hour independently assessed because the minimal wanted to stay on in London.
After an hour of noisy protest by supporters outdoors the workplaces the cleaners had been cheered as they went in to start out their cleansing shift.
Following this protest, in late January 2018 LHH introduced they might be re-tendering their cleansing contract to ensure that throughout the month the cleansing employees are paid the London Residing Wage of £10.20 per hour. It was the primary victory of the 12 months for the UVW.
Metropolis cleaners strike at LHH for Residing Wage
Grenfell Silent Stroll – North Kensington
I used to be late arriving at Notting Hill Methodist and the silent march was beginning early, with folks already in line behind the banner on the highway along with the church. It marked 6 months for the reason that horrible hearth, and 6 months through which nothing had been performed to prosecute those that had been clearly accountable for the situations that led to the 72 deaths. Six years on nothing has modified.
On the entrance had been grieving family, some who had escaped from the flames and native clergy, and police and march stewards had been guaranteeing that photographers and others stored a respectful distance.
When the march moved off it was led by a line of stewards. Lots of the family held white roses and pictures of a few of those that died and behind them had been others carrying massive inexperienced heart-shapes for Grenfell with single phrase messages equivalent to ‘JUST US’ , ‘GRENFELL’ and ‘JUSTICE’.
Many collaborating walked with inexperienced battery-powered candles and additional again within the march there have been many placards demanding the reality about Grenfell. One banner learn ‘Battle For Justice’ and the neighborhood won’t get it except they carry on combating. They’ve stored on combating, nevertheless it appears much less and fewer possible that the long-running inquiry will ship any actual justice.
Additional again on the march had been some extra offended posters, together with one which learn ‘You may run BUT you possibly can’t conceal – Kensington & Chelsea Council ARE COMPLICIT IN MURDER’.
By Ladbroke Grove station firefighters had been lined up as a guard of honour for the marchers, lots of whom stopped to thank them for his or her bravery and persistence which saved many lives, some embracing them. I stayed on Ladbroke Grove to {photograph} as the remainder of the march went previous.
The march appeared way more transferring than the service I’d watched on livestream earlier within the day. I used to be truly right here with the a number of thousand on the march, and near the place the completely avoidable tragedy passed off. There are a lot of extra footage from the march on My London Diary at Grenfell Silent Stroll – 6 months on.
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