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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...
Community Leaders meet Chair of London Councils
A London Citizens team just met for the first time with new Chair of London Councils, Mayor Jules Pipe. Vastiana Belfon, a leader from St Johns-at-Hackney chaired the meeting and was joined by leaders from East, South and West London Citizens in proposing that London Councils become a Living Wage champion. It was a really...
The Living Wage Campaign – a decade of success
A decade of success: the CitizensUK Living Wage Campaign ‘Impossible. Illegal. Naive.’ That was what TELCO was told back in 2001 when we launched the Living Wage campaign, dormant as a movement in the UK for over 70 years. Over the last decade, things have changed. ‘An idea whose time has come.’ That was what...
Mayoral candidates back Citizens’ agenda
On Wednesday 6th October, in St Mary and St Michael’s Church, TELCO Tower Hamlets held a big accountability assembly for the 5 candidates that are running for the position of Elected Mayor in the Borough. Over 400 delgates from the 24 member institutions in Tower Hamlets packed the room, to listen and question the candidates on how they would work...
Living Wage victories as both UCL and Islington Council commit
Malcolm Grant, Provost of UCL, has today given a firm commitment to pay the London Living Wage to all contract staff at University College London. The decision will be implemented over the next two years as contracts are reviewed. This is a huge victory for the Living Wage campaign at UCL, which has involved students,...
Hammersmith Broadway – A Living Wage Zone?
Article by Giles Finnemore (Holy Ghost and St Stephens) On Friday 23 July around 80 leaders from Hammersmith and Fulham Citizens gathered together in St Paul’s church Hammersmith. It was a warm, sunny day and the mood was cheerful. After all, we were here for ACTION! In the vaults of St Paul’s Church we did...
Leading universities receive Living Wage Awards
Seven of the University of London’s major colleges 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 the higher costs of living in the capital. Since it began campaigning for...
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