#£10now

SSP activists mark minimum wage increase with push for £10-an-hour

April 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Voice Reporter · The National Minimum Wage went up by 38p on Monday April 1st from £7.83/per hour to £8.21. The SSP marked this over the weekend by taking campaigns onto the streets with stalls ...

For action against poverty and insecurity

September 7, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser • The British TUC meets in Manchester for its annual congress, 150 years after its founding meeting in the Mechanics Institute of the same city. ...

For workers’ action – not pleas to politicians

April 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser The woman serving me a coffee at the STUC Conference spoke volumes in a short chat. After asking where I was from, and me explaining I represent the ...

Recovery: what recovery?

March 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser If you believe George Osborne, David Cameron and a chunk of the media, workers are back in the land of milk and honey. We’re told our wages are ...