The cost of living crisis is really a low wages crisis. As prices for essentials go up year on year – rents, mortgages, food, energy and fuel prices have all sky-rocketed – our wages are just not keeping up. For the retired, and for disabled and unemployed workers, surviving on a state pension or on benefits is getting harder and harder.
Hastings People’s Party promotes trade union membership as one of the best ways for workers to take direct action to improve pay and conditions. Getting organised at work can give people the confidence to stand up against bullying or harassment and make sure that employers are following the law on issues such as health & safety, maternity rights, and reasonable adjustments for workers who are sick or disabled.
Come along to one of our meetings or email us directly for more information about what union you can join and what support a union can offer you in your work.
Articles and resources from local union campaigns:
Who Cares about the Carers – by Grace Lally, secretary of Unite the Union in Hastings
Leaflet – Unite for Palestine: Boycott Israel at work
Hastings Trades Council
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