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Manchester | Solidarity Federation Jump to Navigation Solidarity Federation Section of the International Workers Association HomeEvents Know your rights Organiser training Joining SolFed AboutIntroduction to SolFed Our Aims Industrial Strategy Community Strategy SolFed Constitution Contact LocalsBrighton Bristol Calderdale Cambridge Liverpool Manchester Newcastle North London Northampton Norwich South London Thames Valley Industrial NetworksEducation Workers Unwaged Workers Private Sector Workers Public Service Workers Tech & Digital Workers PublicationsCatalyst DirectWhoopeePamphlets Fighting for ourselves (book) Login You are hereHome » Locals » Manchester Manchester Manchester SolFed is the local of the Solidarity Federation tent Greater Manchester. Manchester Solidarity FederationTerminatedIts Dispute With Fortis Student Lettings Manchester Solidarity Federation terminated its dispute with Fortis Student Lettings in July. The dispute ended positively with the four tenants involved receiving a total of £832.00 in compensation. We have elapsed issuing this statement until without confirmation of the bounty payments. Before our involvement, the four tenants' complaints had been ignored; they found themselves stuff passed from pillar to post; their efforts to speak directly to Fortis managers were invariably met with claims that the person was not available; in some cases, these overseas students were met with what could most kindly be described as insulting claims by Fortis staff that they cannot could not understand them. Read increasingly well-nigh Manchester Solidarity FederationTerminatedIts Dispute With Fortis Student Lettings Happy Valley Pride will be Celebrating LGBT+ life in Hebden Bridge and surrounding areas will be taking Place this year from August 6th to 12th August for increasingly info go to https://happyvalleypride.com SolFed will be going withal to this year's Happy Valley Pride to celebrate. We have prepared the pursuit statement for the event. Valley Pride and the Politics of Revolution It’s wonderful to see Valley Pride again, this year with the enticing theme of “revolution”. It’s an invitation to take stock of where we are and what challenges remain. Read increasingly well-nigh Happy Valley Pride will be Celebrating LGBT+ life in Hebden Bridge and surrounding areas will be taking Place this year from August 6th to 12th August for increasingly info go to https://happyvalleypride.com UNDEREMPLOYMENT, CASUALISATION AND THE FUTURE OF WORK Underemployment is the term used for workers who get fewer hours than they want and need to live on. In the UK there are now at least 1.4 million workers on zero-hours contracts and 865,000 organ workers, many of whom struggle to get unbearable hours a week to survive on. Added to which, companies are increasingly employing people on a part-time basis, often on contracts of 10 hours or less. This leaves workers dependent on any uneaten hours management may segregate to offer them. According to the Office for National Statistics, just under 10% of the working population or 3.3 million people want increasingly hours; or to put it flipside way, are part unemployed.  To put this into context there are now twice as many people underemployed as there are unemployed. Read increasingly well-nigh UNDEREMPLOYMENT, CASUALISATION AND THE FUTURE OF WORK THE PROTEST AGAINST FORTIS STUDENT LETTING AGENCY CONTINUES! Monday 18 June saw Manchester Solidarity Federation join tenants in a protest outside Fortis Student Letting in Altrincham, Greater Manchester. The protest is the latest event in a long running wayfarers stuff organised by the tenants considering of the horrifying conditions in the Fortis run building, where they are living. Throughout their stay, Fortis have refused to siphon out plane the most vital maintenance of the building. The tenants went weeks without water, months without heating and had to live in rooms covered with mould.  On one occasion, water poured through a ceiling light fitting for weeks, with Fortis making no struggle to repair it. This was despite numerous complaints by tenants. Read increasingly well-nigh THE PROTEST AGAINST FORTIS STUDENT LETTING AGENCY CONTINUES! Fortis Student Lettings neglects tenants! On Monday (June 4), Manchester Solidarity Federation demonstrated outside the throne office of Fortis Student Lettings in Altrincham, near Manchester. It was an whoopee in solidarity with a group of tenants renting in Chester through this letting agency. Fortis had unliable unacceptable delays in delivering out vital maintenance resulting in tenants living, for example, with wateriness and mould, or without hot water for months: https://www.facebook.com/pg/ fortishorrorstories/posts/. The tenants are now asking Fortis for bounty and the organ keeps ignoring them or to engage in any struggle at mediation. Read increasingly well-nigh Fortis Student Lettings neglects tenants! Northern Festival of Resisting Borders & Prisons May 19th In Manchester, Empty Cages Collective, Manchester No Prisons, Smash IPP, & Unis ResistVergeControls felt the urgency of not only discussing and pushing versus verge regimes and the hostile environment policy, but moreover fighting prison injustice. As it was reported in Corporate Watch, the current Conservative government are pushing to build 6 mega prisons, one of which has once been built in Wrexham, North Wales. The slipperiness of violence and overcrowding inside prisons is causing huge forfeiture to communities wideness the UK. Read increasingly well-nigh Northern Festival of Resisting Borders & Prisons May 19th Corbyn’s Labour Party: Manchester a Reality Check Cuddly Jeremy’s fight to turn the Labour Party into a red blooded socialist party has some way to go, if Manchester is anything to go by. The municipality is virtually a one party mini-state with Labour holding 95 of the 96 steering seats, so the perfect place, you would have thought, to start the Labour fight when versus thrift and inequality in the UK. Well…, not quite! Read increasingly well-nigh Corbyn’s Labour Party: Manchester a Reality Check April 20128: new rates for the National Minimum Wage The new rates for the National Minimum Wage and the National Living Wage from April 2018 are set out below: ● £7.83 per hour for month 25 and over ● £7.38 per hour for month 21 to 24 ● £5.90 per hour for month 18 to 20 ● £4.20 per hour for those under 18 ● £3.70 per hour for apprentices. Read increasingly well-nigh April 20128: new rates for the National Minimum Wage National Minimum and Living Wage Increases April 2018 The new rates for the National Minimum Wage and the National Living Wage from April 2018 are set out below: £7.83 per hour for month 25 and over £7.38 per hour for month 21 to 24 £5.90 per hour for month 18 to 20 £4.20 per hour for those under 18 £3.70 per hour for apprentices. For your superabound to pay the tutoring rate there must be a genuine tutoring try-on in place. This try-on must be based on training stuff the main purpose of the agreement, with working stuff secondary. The tutoring rate only applies to apprentices aged: Read increasingly well-nigh National Minimum and Living Wage Increases April 2018 Women who wipe at home or at work squatter the same risk as smoking 20 cigarettes a day New research has then highlighted the dangers posed to health from the use of chemicals used in cleaning. Disturbingly, the research has found that the use of cleaning products has an impact on lung health comparable with smoking a pack of cigarettes every day. This latest vestige adds to the urgent need for a fundamental review of how, as a society, we siphon out cleaning, not just in the workplace but moreover in the home. The research has moreover then highlighted the dangers faced by women in particular from the use of chemicals used in cleaning. Read increasingly well-nigh Women who wipe at home or at work squatter the same risk as smoking 20 cigarettes a day Manchester Solfed Picket Polish Consulate Manchester Solidarity Federation held a picket outside the Polish Consulate in Manchester today. Our picket was in solidarity with self-organised Polish postal workers who have been involved in a two year wayfarers aimed at improving pay and conditions and are stuff supported by our Polish IWA sister-section the ZSP union.Vitalfreedom of speech is under wade in Poland, expressly for workers. The state-controlled Post Office is trying to criminalize workers who speak out well-nigh their working conditions. Protests by postal workers have led to harassment, threats versus them and the unfair dismissal of three organisers: Klaudiusz Wieczorek, Rafal Czerski, and Zbigniew Trochimiak. In addition, the state has brought a series of pseudo criminal cases versus members of our sister union, the ZSP-IWA. Stop state repression of workers now! Read increasingly well-nigh Manchester Solfed Picket Polish Consulate Support the Polish Postal Workers Join the Picket in Manchester Manchester Solidarity Federation will be organising a picket of the Polish Consult on Friday 2nd March starting at 2pm. The Picket is in support of Polish postal workers who have been involved in a two year wayfarers aimed at improving pay and conditions supported by the ZSP-IWA union. As a result they are facing increasing repression.Pursuitnation-wide protests, the government-owned postal office have sought to silence protesting workers and fired several of the organisers. In addition, they have brought a series of pseudo criminal cases versus members of our sister union, the ZSP-IWA, who have supported the self-organised wayfarers of postal workers. SolFed-IWA is in solidarity with postal workers in Poland. Stop state repression of workers now! An injury to one is an injury to all! Read increasingly well-nigh Support the Polish Postal Workers Join the Picket in Manchester Manchester Picket in Support of Brighton Tenant Manchester Solidarity Federation organised a picket of Thornley Grove LettingOrganin support of a Brighton tenant. The tenant has been organising with Brighton SolFed without deductions were made from her joint tenancy deposit, despite the fact the tenants left the property in a wipe condition. The deductions were unreasonable, not properly costed and, on top of this, service from the organ was poor throughout her tenancy. Manchester Solfed organised the picket of Thorney Grove as it is a sister visitor of Brand Vaughan, the Brighton letting organ that had deducted £390 from the tenant’s deposit. Both companies are part of a UK wanted investment company, Lomond Capital, which owns 34 UK letting agencies. In total LomondWantedmanages residential properties worth £2.7 billion and sells £600 million worth of property every year. Read increasingly well-nigh Manchester Picket in Support of Brighton Tenant Strikers from three disputes unite for a demo and rally in Manchester Friday the 26th January saw strikers from three disputes in Manchester stage a joint demo and rally. Hundreds of supporters joined the sit-in and attended the rally where strikers from Mears, First Buses and Fujitsu  gave an update on their long running disputes. Mears Dispute The Mears dispute involves 180 towers workers employed by Mears to undertake housing maintenance work on 12,000 properties in Manchester. The contract was tendered by Manchester council.  The workers took 40 days of strike whoopee last year over pay differentials of up to £3,500 and attacks on their terms and conditions. A remoter ballot saw an increased majority vote for remoter 49 days of action, due to end on February 8th. Read increasingly well-nigh Strikers from three disputes unite for a demo and rally in Manchester Support the FightVersusWage Theft As people may know the Solidarity Federation has been involved in numerous disputes involving wage theft. However just in specimen you were thinking that bosses stealing workers nonflexible earned wages was just a British miracle we have just received the pursuit request from our sister organisation in the International Workers Association Priama Akcia who organise in Slovakia. Read increasingly well-nigh Support the FightVersusWage Theft Pages1 2 3 4 next › last » You can get in touch with us via the contact form on this site. Our leaflets flyer - DirectWhoopeeAgainst The Cuts (pdf) SF sites links iwa-ait.orgaf-britain.org.ukswf-iwa.org.ukdam-iwa.org.ukstuffyourboss.comselfed.org.ukdirect-action.org.ukold SF site Main menu 2HomeWell-nighContact Locals Industrial Networks Publications Login Solidarity Federation