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Glasgow Solidarity Network – busy behind the scenes
Over the past few weeks, GSN has received quite a few contacts from people who are being troubled by (ex)landlords and (ex)bosses. Issues to do with stolen deposits continue to be most frequent, but we also had enquiries regarding rather obscure – to say the least – employment practices and enquiries regarding repairs that landlords were refusing to carry out. Very often we could only help people…
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Getting the word out!
If you would like to help advertise the GSN near your home then get in touch!
We have been doing a big organising drive recently: postering, stickering, leafletting, out talking to folk. Rather than arrange big groups of us descending on an area we have been popping up a note of times where one of us is free and if others are too then we meet at/near somebodies home then spend an hour or so popping out info around the area before stopping for a cuppa and a chat. Because a…
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SolNet flyering this Thursday The Network wants your help! We're meeting on Thursday, 15th of May, at 3pm at Cafe Cherubini on Great Western Road in the West End for an hour of flyering.
6 Things You Should Know About Glasgow’s Social Housing Crisis
6 Things You Should Know About Glasgow’s Social Housing Crisis
This article by London-based Novara Media looks into what is going on in Glasgow with regards to social housing and gentrification. Their summation is really spot on:
Housing is a basic need of the human body: without shelter, we die. The gentrification of Glasgow, as with other cities around the world, threatens the working class and other vulnerable groups at the biophysical level. The…
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A wee little update on the Glasgow Solidarity Network
A wee little update on the Glasgow Solidarity Network
As ardent readers of this blog know, Glasgow Solidarity Network had a busy start to 2014. We won a case against a Glasgow letting agency that ripped tenants of by charging illegal “administration fees”. The agency had to pay back just under 190 quid. Following this successful campaign GSN received quite a few calls and emails from people with similar problems. We met up with them to discuss…
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Big Meet-up, Big Thanks
Thanks for those who made the meeting tonight.
Just a quick thanks to everyone who turned up to our Big Meet-up tonight. It was a really upbeat meeting and it seemed to mark a positive step for the network, both in terms of getting to know other groups in the city and in terms of hearing new ideas…
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Glasgow Solidarity Network: the Big Meet-up
Only a few days to go until our “Big Meet-Up” on Monday, 10th of Feburary, 7pm, at the Centre for Contemporary Arts’ Electron Club.
The Glasgow Solidarity Network invites everybody to come along to our first big open meeting of the new year. Tea and…
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A rundown of our latest case:
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A rundown of our latest case:
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The Big Meet-up!
Glasgow Solidarity Network would like to invite everybody to come along to an open meeting on Monday, 10th of February, 7pm at the Centre for Contemporary Arts’ Electron Club.
We would like to discuss and critique the solidarity network approach to learn…
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Repost: Direct action and solidarity win in Glasgow, African migrants strike in Israel, and a few upcoming events
Thanks to Cautiously pessimistic for the shout-out :)
We just got a shout-out over at Cautiously Pessimistic. Thanks for letting people know about our win and for giving a platform to other fights going on at the moment. A nice quote from the piece:
“When we think seriously about taking on realistic…
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Glasgow Solidarity Network wins case against letting agency
Just a brief update on the Network’s latest campaign against a Glasgow letting agency. Vivien and Hartwig received the £187 that the agency took off them as “administration fees” – illegal under Scottish Housing Law – in a cheque on Friday after a demand…
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CEASEFIRE!!!
We can stop posting reviews, at least for now!
1-2-Let have been just been in touch with Vivien and Hartwig to say that the cheque is in the post! We’ll give it a week to see if it comes in before advising any further. Until then hold off on posting any more reviews.
We also believe that 1-2-Let will…
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Midweek, and 1-2-Let are still wrong on the internet
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Marisol and Norma, who asked that their last names not be used, have suffered years of abuse by Fubonn. In June 2013 they both approached Portland Solidarity Network, or PDXSol, saying that they had been forced to work off the clock, refused bathroom breaks, subjected to verbal abuse, and forced to do strenuous and dangerous tasks while pregnant. The owners of Fubonn have consistently denied the claims and have threatened legal action if the campaign continues.
“When one of my co-workers made a mistake at work, the manager would yell at them so badly that they would cry,” said Marisol. She and Norma also reported that managers had told them that they “would never hire Latinos again.”
“There was a lot of discrimination there,” said Norma. “Because I was a female I got paid less than the rest.” After working there for eight years, she still only made $9 per hour.
PDXSol, along with Norma and Marisol, calculated what Fubonn owed them for the years of abuse and unpaid work. On June 29, Marisol, Norma and 45 supporters marched into Fubonn to deliver a letter demanding that the store make good on the thousands of dollars that Marisol and Norma are owed, and that it start providing employees with clear overtime documentation. PDXSol gave Fubonn a week to respond, and then the group began developing an escalating direct-action campaign.
I wish to register a complaint!
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Help Vivien and Hartwig by having a Monday Moan about 1-2-Let
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