by Bell Ribeiro-Addy | Jun 20, 2023 | Campaigns, Constituency Work, Streatham
Outsourced cleaning staff at Streatham and Clapham High School have been on strike to ask for a fair pay rise and the same sick pay and annual leave entitlements as other school employees. During the strikes, local newspaper South London Press reported that some...
by Bell Ribeiro-Addy | Mar 15, 2023 | Constituency Work, Streatham
It was great to be on the picket line with striking Streatham Job Centre Staff. They joined over 150,000 civil servants walking out on Budget Day to fight for fair pay and pensions, job security, better funding and respect from the government. Amid economic downturn...
by Bell Ribeiro-Addy | Mar 2, 2023 | Constituency Work, Tulse Hill
Thank you to members of the Brixton Rush Common branch of Streatham Labour, who organised an informative community meeting to discuss what we can do to address escalating living costs, with speakers from our trade union movement. We need to stop calling this a “cost...
by Bell Ribeiro-Addy | Feb 9, 2023 | Campaigns
The second week of February saw more mass walkouts of NHS workers in England, with nurses and ambulance workers leading the biggest strike in NHS history on Monday, physiotherapists out on Thursday, and ambulance workers out once again yesterday. This is an indictment...
by Bell Ribeiro-Addy | Jan 18, 2023 | Campaigns
I joined nurses on the picket line at King’s College Hospital as they entered their third day of strike action. A wealthy country like Britain should never be in a position where health professionals are so undervalued and our NHS is so underfunded that nurses...
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