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Are you ready for Fair Pay Fortnight 2015

Issue date

13 Feb 2015

British workers have endured the longest pay squeeze since records began. They are now getting paid £2,500 a year less, on average, than they were in 2010.

We need a recovery that benefits the many, not just the few. From 16 February to 1 March the TUC is organising Fair Pay Fortnight – a series of events across England and Wales to make the case for fair pay.

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Find an event near you

Find out what is happening in your area and join the campaign for fair pay and decent jobs.

Campaigners will be out and about in many towns, and we’d love your help if you can spare a few hours to spread the word about Britain’s bad jobs crisis.

http://fairpayfortnight.org/events

Picturehouse Cinemas: Pay your staff a Living Wage

Picturehouse

Can you help BECTU put pressure on Picturehouses to pay a fairer wage to their dedicated staff from Exeter to Edinburgh? Sign the petition now!

TAKE ACTION: Sign the BECTU petition to Picturehouse Cinemas now!

Amazon.co.uk: Work with GMB to get temp workers a decent job

Amazon

Temporary workers at Amazon have to deal with short term, low paid agency work, with a punitive discipline and monitoring system that can see them lose their job with little notice. Help them and their union, GMB, to call for a decent jobs guarantee, with work and pay that give them the security they need in work.

TAKE ACTION: Sign the GMB petition to Amazon.co.uk now!

Catch the criminal care employers: End the scandal of illegally paid care workers

Care workers

Care workers looking after the most vulnerable people in the UK are being illegally paid below the national minimum wage. 220,000 people are being exploited in this way. Vince Cable could instruct HMRC to name and shame some of the biggest care providers but so far he hasn’t.

TAKE ACTION: Sign the UNISON petition to Vince Cable now!

Spread the word about Fair Pay Fortnight

Show your support and help spread the message about Fair Pay Fortnight online and around your neighbourhood. Let’s make some noise for fair pay!

Print out flyers for Fair Pay Fortnight

Leaflet Got access to a noticeboard where you work or in your community? Download and print out Fair Pay Fortnight flyers to pin up and get noticed.

Download the flyer as a PDF file

Use these placards to tell us why you deserve a fair pay

Download, print, write on it and take a picture.

Tell us why you deserve a fair pay by writing on the placard and then take a picture and tweet it to #fairpayfortnight.

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Please tweet using #fairpayfortnight This is the hashtag we’ll be using throughout Fair Pay Fortnight. Please use this when you tweet regional press stories and updates from events and photos, so we can easily pick them up and retweet them from the main Twitter address for the campaign, which is @payrise4britain and add them to the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/BritainNeedsAPayrise
Please send us your photos and videos. Again, any photos or links to videos that are tweeted using the #fairpayfortnight hashtag will be easily picked up by us and shared across the TUC’s main social media accounts. However, if you’re unable to tweet stuff please email photos and videos to: contact@fairpayfortnight.org

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