llrs Cleary and Bird make urgent case for Wirral Council to go further and faster in protecting our environment 28th June 2022 / 28th June 2022 by Wirral Green Party You can watch the full meeting via the council portal here. Read more »
Tory Party faces questions over £3.6m unaccounted for in 2019 election 19th June 2022 / 19th June 2022 by Wirral Green Party Given how hard Wirral Green Party works to make sure our election expenses are all above board, we find this article quite staggering! The Conservative Party is facing questions over more than £3.6m it spent in the run-up to the 2019 general election without explaining what it paid for. Researchers from the International Institute for […] Read more »
Labour, Tories and LibDems join forces to block Real Living Wage in Wirral as only Greens back anti-poverty measure 9th June 2022 / 9th June 2022 by Wirral Green Party Labour, Tory and LibDem councillors have voted not even to consider the issue of paying the Real Living Wage to all workers delivering Wirral Council services. Twenty-three local authorities in England pay the ‘RLW’ to contractors and staff working for outsourced providers too. But in Wirral borough on Merseyside, two years after all parties agreed to pay the Real […] Read more »
Only Green councillors vote to support Real Living Wage for all workers 9th June 2022 / 9th June 2022 by Wirral Green Party The Real Living Wage of £9.90 an hour is not paid to all our workers delivering council services. Our communities are suffering from in-work poverty and a cost of living crisis. At Policy & Resources Committee on 8 June, Cllr Jo Bird proposed that a further report be submitted to the Policy & Resources committee, […] Read more »