• Protect trade union secondments at Portsmouth City Council
    Portsmouth City Council is proposing to slash the funding for trade union secondments, funds which release trade union representatives from their day jobs in order to represent members, offer guidance and negotiate on behalf of all Council staff. Portsmouth City Council is legally obliged to pay trade union reps for the time they spend representing the workforce, but properly funded secondments simplify arranging time off and cover. By slashing secondment funding the Council will increase costs, create long delays in resolving workplace issues and expose themselves to legal challenges. The trade unions themselves have offered to negotiate with the Council and put forward their own suggestions for reducing costs but these were rejected. It is a false economy as by removing from the budget the relatively small costs of providing the secondments, the Council will increase its overall expenditure. They will be exposed to costly Employment Tribunal and personal injury claims which would otherwise have been prevented through the guidance and involvement of seconded representatives; statutory formal procedures will take longer to complete as the Council fails to find trade union stewards available to participate; collective agreements formed by employer and trade unions on behalf of the staff, which benefit both the Council and the employees, will not be reached as trade union representatives are unlikely to be easily released by their local manager to work on these or get their existing work covered in their absence. At a time of unprecedented job losses in the public sector the Council wants to remove the protection, reassurance and independent advice that Council staff receive from their trade unions. Portsmouth City Council is one of the largest employers in the city, it needs it seconded trade union representatives to function. By signing this petition you can show your support for the Portsmouth City Council staff and their elected trade union representatives and help us fight this politically motivated attack by the Council.
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    Created by Portsmouth City Council UNISON,UNITE,GMB
  • Say No to 8am-8pm Parking Excess
    Parking enforcement will have a field day - but residents, visitors, parents doing the school drop, faith groups and businesses will lose out. This 365 days a year of severe parking control is a money making venture by the council. Broad Green is over-built and this is causing congestion - the council is penalising residents when it is to blame.
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    Created by Theloisproject Womenshealth
  • STOP HOSPITALS REQUIRING PASSPORTS BEFORE TREATMENT
    Many of our poorest, and the long-term sick will not have these. They have no use for them if they are too sick to travel and are often too poor to afford them thanks to cuts. A close friend of mine, whose chronic ill health stems from an injury she sustained whilst teaching in a state school, has neither the use for or the means to pay for either a passport or a driver's license. Check out the story in the The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nhs-hospitals-20-forced-show-passports-id-health-tourism-crackdown-healthcare-jeremy-hunt-government-a7530931.html
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    Created by Evelyn Corney
  • Keep the Riverside Tavern
    The Riverside Tavern has been in Strood for as long as I can remember it's a safe haven for the LGBT community, Our night life is dying out here in Medway and this is to date the biggest LGBT venue in Kent. Without the Riverside tavern the LGBT community will be forced to go elsewhere including places that would or could potentiaonally not be safe for them to go!, Our customers feel welcomed and safe here at our venue and therefore the council should keep the riverside tavern as it is and work out a way of building around us instead of moving us on.
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    Created by Blake Wood
  • LevenMouth Return our Railway to Leven
    There used to be an extensive railway around Levenmouth. The tracks of this rail network still exist. Until very recently the coal trains ran to the power station in Leven. The railway was removed in favour of car transportation and since then this has left the town economically stranded and has had a detrimental effect on the community. To date people living in Leven are by far the largest urban concentration in Scotland not served by direct rail links. The line is intact, unlike others which have been granted meaning that the costs would be vastly reduced in repair. We only have very poor alternative transport modes, especially road, despite the very large population and industrial base. We have significant growth in housing and thus population which is not served by necessary infrastructure. We are terribly affected by being cut off. I have not been able to sell my house in seven years despite it being a period property in the town centre, the crisis made worse by low employment opportunities in the area. The return of a railway would constitute a green alternative to constantly building roads and cars thereby lessening the climate impact. As a coastal and golfing town, we have much to offer families and visitors as we did before our railway was taken away without our consultation. We need our trains back.
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    Created by Wendy Erskine
  • Carved sculptures for St. James' Park/City Farm
    While such sculptures have been located at various sites around Gloucester, including more than a dozen at Robinswood Hill County Park, funding has instead been expended at St. James' Park on an handful of exercise frames that attract little interest, and poorly secured litter bins that are prone to vandalism. Carved sculptures, it can be seen at those other sites, instill a real sense of community pride, while being more resistant to both theft and vandalism (which happened to two light benches in the community garden over a year ago, leading to the City Farm locking the garden up, threatening prosecution on 'trespassers', and not replacing the seating). A carved Gloucestershire Old Spot in the park would send a clear message that this rare bit of open green space in the ward has not been overlooked, encouraging and inspiring recreational activities throughout the community. I would ask residents of Barton & Tredworth and the city in general to support this petition, and promote it to TETRA and our city/county councillors, whenever possible.
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    Created by Joe Kilker
  • Make the children Rainbow clubs available to boys.
    It's well known that more and more children are coming out as being transgender. This can happen from an early age. Stopping a child being what they feel they are inside can have terrible consequences for their future. Children need to be allowed to explore who they want to be. The girlguides are stopping boys doing this.
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    Created by Shakira Sandford
  • Invest in the historic Cambridge market and stop raising fees
    As a historic chartered market town this space and these people are fundamental to Cambridge history. There are opportunities to make the place more sustainable, more accessible and to have more of an emphasis on local goods, but most of all it must be viable and fair. Cambridge City Council earns over £700,000 a year from the market, but has invested hardly anything back in for decades. A report last year showed that it is looking to invest money into projects which will produce a return, this is an outstanding candidate. The ongoing prosperity of the market is important to help keep funding services but it is not prospering. Currently the stall coverings are dirty and torn, and traders often have to clean up hypodermic needles and human faeces when they arrive for work on a pitch that they have paid for. There are dozes of empty stalls, graffiti and rotting wooden boards lying around in heaps. If the council keeps raising prices without investing money back in, then the market will die off and traders who have been in the city for decades will lose their livelihood and the city will lose a central part of its heritage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dENnYXKegU
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    Created by Oscar Gillespie
  • Greggs: give food to people to share so it doesn't go in bins
    This is important to help people have fresh food,so it does not fill up landfill rubbish sites and it also helps people of all cultures to be healthy happy and have fresh food to eat at the table.
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    Created by Tracey Cyster Picture
  • Reverse the decision to undertake a split consultation concerning the Horton General Hospital.
    To allow split consultation would be dangerous - paving the way for an easier path to downgrade acute services at the Horton General Hospital which will have the most dangerous consequences on the residents of the Banbury area.
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    Created by Roofus Delaney
  • End Regional Pricing for Electricity
    As my MP (Ian Blackford) has said in Parliament, "This is not about price competition this is about a regulated charge varying from region to region through a price control framework. The reality is that you live in the Highlands and islands, you will pay for the privilege courtesy of doing so by the UK Government. Electricity distribution charges for the North of Scotland are 84% higher than the distribution charges for London. One nation? Whose nation. Not my one. Westminster calls the tune, Highlanders and Islanders pay the price. We pay a high price for transmission charges but we also have a high rate of energy consumption. The Highlands and Islands are noted for windy and wet conditions. It is not unusual for folk in the Highlands having their heating on all year round. Ofgem in a recent study on the matter noted thathouseholds in the North of Scotland, who use electricity for heating would benefit from a cost reduction of about £60 per year if there was a universal network charge. Sixty pounds to someone on a low income, to a pensioner would be a significant impact on their budget. Not only are we faced with high transmission charges but in the Highlands and Islands many consumers will suffer from a lack of choice in energy provision. Most households cannot benefit from a gas grid connection. It is often a choice between electricity and domestic heating oil. With such limitations the last thing we need is price discrimination being foisted upon us by a Westminster Government. Where you live should not result in you being penalised through paying higher network charges." Words are not enough. Now we need to see some action please on this!
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    Created by John Wood
  • Stop the refurbishment of Westminster Houses Of Parliament
    To continue with this over blown cost to the public purse alongside the same refurbishment of the Windsor place is obscene. Let’s have Parliament setup in a newly purpose built unit to house MPs & Lords instead of paying for overblown expensive second homes in London; austerity should arrive at this place before anywhere else. This is public money they are spending in favour of themselves again. No one has done a cost analysis in this direction it's not even on the table alongside the proposed works. The public should vote on this or stop it, to deliver the public a better outcome than this. Make houses of parliament a tourist attraction only; money raised to pay for the works and no occupation of the building. Thus self funding it like crowd funding but on the hoof thus the cost would dramatically be reduced to the public.
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    Created by Ashley Richards