Legal Trade Union

Towards a trade union that safeguards the working conditions of all workers in the legal sector.

[Materialist Lawyers' Group @Material_Law]

"Which union should legal sector workers join?"

Absolutely neck and neck between @IWGBunion (34%) and @UVWunion (35%)! So much so that we're doing a second round run off!

Again, totally non-binding straw poll, improved if you give reasons for your choice in the replies.

[Materialist Lawyers' Group @Material_Law]

Here it is: our provisional plan for how to found a trade union for legal sector workers.

Linked below are minutes of last week's meeting. Commenting is enabled: we welcome your thoughts and criticisms (keep it constructive!)

Please share widely!

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[Brigitta Balogh @hellobrigitta]

The @barstandards has confirmed that highly likely I will be the first #EU #Roma #Migrant to qualify as a #barrister in #England & #Wales provided the data they have. Thank you @rydermc for the amazing email you have sent me to congratulate and further encourage me.

[Materialist Lawyers' Group @Material_Law]

Meeting tonight @gardencourtlaw. Big steps taken towards founding a criminal justice sector trade union.

Help choose the union's name!

1) Criminal Justice Workers (United)
2) Criminal Legal Aid Practitioners Union
3) Legal Sector Workers’ Union
4) United Justice Sector Workers

[Legal Trade Union @Legal_TU]

Why didn't we think of this...

[Materialist Lawyers' Group @Material_Law]

Meeting tonight @gardencourtlaw. Big steps taken towards founding a criminal justice sector trade union.

Help choose the union's name!

1) Criminal Justice Workers (United)
2) Criminal Legal Aid Practitioners Union
3) Legal Sector Workers’ Union
4) United Justice Sector Workers

[Save Reginald Save Tidemill @oldtidemillgrdn]

WE ARE BEING EVICTED NOW AND NEED SUPPORT. Please come down to show your opposition to this violent, unaccountable eviction. Over 100 officers.

[Materialist Lawyers' Group @Material_Law]

A reminder that this event is this evening, from 6.30pm, in the @hodgejonesallen bar. A few tickets are still going spare. Don't miss out on this important opportunity to discuss industrial action in the legal sector!

Please RT

https://t.co/oKGedVkx2G

[Paul Kingsley Clark @_Paul_Clark]

Our first newsletter - please take a look 👀 (and retweet)!

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

One to watch for criminal lawyers - A Return to No Returns? The Fight For Unity, 29 October 2018. Tickets free, bookable here: https://t.co/BbpLAQfl2B

[Materialist Lawyers' Group @Material_Law]

Next MLG event, 6.30pm Monday 29 October in the @hodgejonesallen bar:

"A return to no returns? The fight for unity: Does the criminal legal sector need a trade union?"

Speakers: @LucieWibberley, @Raj_Chada and @jamesfarrar

Tkts below. Please RT + come!

https://t.co/oKGedVkx2G

[Materialist Lawyers' Group @Material_Law]

[BEASTLY THREAD ON LAWYERS & BORDERS, 2 of 2, please RT]
His wife, herself a recognised refugee, explained that, “My six-year-old is asking to go see her dad because she missed him. I haven’t told her yet.” https://t.co/PygLwxdFN0

[Materialist Lawyers' Group @Material_Law]

The Materialist Lawyers’ Group met to discuss lawyers and national borders. Our discussion produced a number of enduring insights and questions. Read on to find out how lawyers can help to dismantle the British border.
[BEASTLY THREAD ON LAWYERS & BORDERS, 1 of 2, please RT]

[Materialist Lawyers' Group @Material_Law]

@FranckMagennis Indeed. As @BarristerSecret will tell you! (G'wan SB and give the poll a retweet! 😘)

[Materialist Lawyers' Group @Material_Law]

Next MLG event? Please vote + RT for a wide sample!

1) Do lawyers/their clients receive enough childcare support?
2) Is lawyers' pay in the UK too unequal?
3) Might too much law be one major cause of the UK’s housing crisis?
4) Should criminal barristers return to no returns?

[Materialist Lawyers' Group @Material_Law]

Our reading group resumes at @gardencourtlaw tomorrow (25.09.18)
A few (free) tickets still going.
We'll discuss Hesham Ali (a @UKSupremeCourt case about deportation) + a @leninology piece about Germany's discourse around migration.
All welcome! Please RT

https://t.co/FboPi1T3yA

[Franck Magennis 🍉 @FranckMagennis]

An idea:

A playwriting and community education workshop for 16-18 years olds. Lasting say 6 weeks, culminating in a co-produced play staged somewhere in the community.

[Thread]

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

"From below, we need to understand where money in our communities needs to go. From above, we need to create financial instruments that will enable us to take finance by the horns." @EquityPeople https://t.co/D7MGNmcHbk

[Materialist Lawyers' Group @Material_Law]

25.09.18, one for the diary

"National borders - what even are you? How can I ever understand you?!"

Reading group about 2 texts:

1. @leninology on anti-migrant politics in Germany
2. UKSC judgment on deportation

Come get material with us! All welcome!

https://t.co/FboPi2aEXa

[Materialist Lawyers' Group @Material_Law]

Our next reading group will be about… national borders! Have you any bright ideas for readings? Ideally short (20-30 minute read) + accessible. Of particular interest: the logic and political assumptions underpinning the @ukhomeoffice’s asylum & deportation regimes. Hit us up!

[4 Day Week Foundation @4Day_Week]

Website is up and running! Join the campaign to demand a 4 Day Week.

Thank you @evening_class for the design:

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