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London Citizens Launch Citizens Agenda for 2012 Mayoral Election
London Citizens kicked off their Mayoral Elections campaign on Monday 16th January with the launch of the Citizens Agenda for London. The event was held at St Mary’s Church, Somers Town, the parish of the 1920s housing campaigner, Fr Basil Jellicoe. Community leaders from across London revealed a series of proposals, which London Citizens will...
TELCO makes its mark! 15 years of organising in East London
On Wednesday 30th November, 1600 TELCO leaders met at the Troxy Centre in Limehouse to celebrate 15 years of successful Community Organising in East London. Community Organising in the UK is at its strongest in east London, where 1000s of leaders have been trained in the art of public...
As youth unemployment hits high, TELCO secures an estimated £400,000 of Living Wages
As headlines announce that youth unemployment hit record highs, on Tuesday 15th November, 200 young people from TELCO member communities in Hackney secured Living Wage jobs to be part of the London 2012 Games. This equates to an estimated £400,000 of Living Wages for TELCO members and their families. This success is the result of...
Independent report recommends London employers pay Living Wage
By Alex Donald A report analysing the government’s proposed ‘Universal Credit’ to reform the benefits system calls on London employers to “consider adopting the London Living Wage”. The Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion argues that the London Living Wage “makes a big impact on work incentives under Universal Credit. If London employers paid the...
Citizens UK celebrates 10 years of the Living Wage Campaign
By Rachel Guthrie The living wage idea is no new idea – the need for a rate that pays according to means and needs, has long been recognised, hypothesized and theorised. Launched in 2001 by London Citizens. David Cameron said “the living wage is an ideas whose time has come” and yesterday, May 2nd 2011,...
PRESS RELEASE: Living Wage Campaign meet Tesco CEO Philip Clarke
PR: New Tesco boss urged to pay Living Wage by 7 year old activist PRESS RELEASE for immediate release THURSDAY 21st APRIL 2011 NEW TESCO BOSS URGED TO PAY LIVING WAGE BY 7 YEAR OLD ACTIVIST Photos: http://bit.ly/hPbk3p The new Chief Executive of Tesco, Philip Clarke, had a chance encounter yesterday when he was challenged...
The Day for Civil Society: celebrating 10 years of the Living Wage Campaign
In the summer of 2000, 15 experienced community leaders whose institutions helped found TELCO (The East London Communities Organisation) in 1996, gathered in Retreat at The Royal Foundation of St Katharine’s in Limehouse, to reflect on the theme of ‘What is happening to our families?’. In the rounds and introductions the complaint and condition was...
Community Leader of the Month – Inez Sarkodee Adoo
Community Leader of the Month: Inez Sarkodee Adoo, Our Lady High School (Hackney) By Joanna Cordero In November of last year at the TELCO Annual Assembly, a brazen 17-year old student from Our Lady High School in Hackney, stood in front of over a thousand east Londoners to demand Lord Coe to make the Olympics...
TELCO takes stock of the past year’s achievements
By Joanna Cordero A decade after its launch, the Living Wage Campaign celebrated landmark achievements at the The East London Communities Organisation (TELCO) annual assembly on Tuesday. Jane Wills of Queen Mary University in London told TELCO members last night that: “In the last ten years, you have given at least 9000 workers in London...
UEL sign up to the London Living Wage
The University of East London is the latest university in the capital to join the growing alliance of forward-thinking institutions who have agreed to pay their low-wage staff the London Living Wage, fixed recently by the mayor, Boris Johnson, at £7.85. The London Living Wage (LLW) is a London-weighted minimum wage which takes into account...
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