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21st November 2013 by Islington Green Party
Islington Greens last week called for Arsenal Football Club to pay all of its staff the minimum London Living Wage, currently set at £8.80 an hour, after it came to light that the football club were not paying their lowest paid workers the London Living Wage. Islington Green member Charlie Kiss called for Arsenal to […]
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10th November 2013 by Islington Green Party
A new and depressing landmark has been reached in the madness that is Islington’s housing market. Last year, local Green campaigner Caroline Allen wrote in the Islington Tribune (27th July 2012) about how so called ‘affordable’ homes that cost £500,000 were nothing more than a con; designed to allow developers to continue to profit from […]
4th November 2013 by Islington Green Party
Islington Green Party member Alex Rendall took part in the united university workers strike on 31st October. Members of the Unison, UCU and Unite trade unions walked out for a day after receiving a below inflation pay offer for the fifth year in a row. Alex said: “After taking inflation into account, since 2008 our […]
31st October 2013 by Islington Green Party
Islington Green Party is delighted to see that Richard Watts, the new council leader, recognises the harmful effects of air pollution on residents’ health, yet worried by his claim at the recent air pollution meeting that “Islington cannot go any further on its own”. He was certainly right to say that the Mayor of London […]
16th October 2013 by Islington Green Party
Teachers in London and around the country will go on strike this Thursday (17 October) in protest at repeated attacks on their profession and working conditions by Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove. Highbury Green Party campaigner and NUT member Ernestas Jegorovas said he and his colleagues were left with “no option” but […]
3rd October 2013 by Islington Green Party
Islington Green Party has been baffled to see the Council crowing about its great achievement of adding 100 parking spaces in the last six months. We replied to the council, pointing out that this is not in keeping with its recent claims to finally be taking the issue of air pollution seriously. Needless to say, […]
1st October 2013 by Islington Green Party
Council executive member for sustainability Rakhia Ismail claimed last month that the council is making it as easy as possible for residents to recycle their waste – but the evidence shows they could be doing much more. On estates where Islington Green Party members live, in Canonbury, Clerkenwell, and elsewhere, the few recycling bins available […]
25th September 2013 by Islington Green Party
The recent unpleasant experience of one resident finding a camera recording whilst pointing into her bedroom has highlighted the problems of expensive and ineffective CCTV. The record of CCTV cameras preventing or deterring crime is extremely poor. Scotland Yard has reported that only one crime in 1000 is actually solved by CCTV, and contrary to […]
21st September 2013 by Islington Green Party
Private tenants in Islington need a salary of £70,000 per year for a 2-bed flat to be affordable, according to housing charity Shelter – and local Green Party campaigner and European Election candidate for London, Caroline Allen, says it is time for radical action from the government. In a piece published in the Islington Tribune, […]
16th September 2013 by Islington Green Party
Private tenants in Islington need a salary of £70,000 per year for a 2-bed flat to be affordable, according to housing charity Shelter – and local Green Party campaigner and European Election candidate for London, Caroline Allen, says it is time for radical action from the government. In a piece published in the Islington Tribune […]