POSTED BY Campaigns IN Featured ON Nov 12, 2019

Women’s rights: declaration launched

All proposals should be audited for their effect on women and girls. Three hundred Labour Party activists and supporters, among them three MSPs and 24 Labour councillors, have launched a declaration on women’s sex-based rights — and are calling for more people to sign up. The declaration, which has been issued in the form of a petition, is in response to moves which many fear threaten to erode and water down rights that women have campaigned long and hard to achieve. Concerns about this...

POSTED BY Campaigns IN Featured ON Oct 9, 2019

Call to abolish sick-pay threshold

“The government needs to get on and protect every worker if they fall sick.” One in 10 women workers do not earn enough to qualify for statutory sick pay, according to TUC analysis published recently. Research found that 1.4 million women employees earn less than £118 a week – the qualifying threshold for statutory sick pay. Which means they cannot claim sick pay if they fall ill. Working people can get £94.25 per week Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) if they are too ill to work. It is paid by...

POSTED BY Campaigns IN Featured ON Oct 8, 2019

Review of buffer zones decision needed

Was the evidence provided to the review team even communicated in full to the Minister? In the last year, 34 abortion clinics in England and Wales have had protests outside them. We know first-hand the harassment and intimidation carried out by these so-called protests. And we were disappointed that the UK Home Office report on protests outside abortion clinics underplayed and misrepresented women’s evidence of what they had experienced. Priti Patel needs to look again at the case for...