Support for St Mungo’s Strikers

Goldsmiths ucu log

This motion passed at a GUCU Brach meeting Wednesday, 21 June 2023

This branch notes: 

  • Workers belonging to UNITE the union at the homeless charity St Mungo’s embarked on a month-long strike beginning on Tuesday 30 May. 
  • The strike is in response to the charity’s latest pay offer of a pitiful 2.25%.
  • 200 workers have joined the union since the ballot was cast.
  • Since 2010 frontline staff wages are down 30%, CEO pay has increased by 77% and SMT pay has increased by 385%. 

This branch believes:   

  • This pay offer reflects management indifference to the financial pressures facing their own staff.
  • St Mungo’s workers are fighting against the continued erosion of their wages and for the future of homeless workers.
  • Excessive salaries that CEOs, SMT award themselves is misuse of public money and the donations of ordinary citizens.

This branch resolves: 

  • To send a message of solidarity to the St Mungos’ striking workers.
     
  • To send a donation to their strike fund of £200.