Sunday, May 27, 2007

Living Wage: Number 10 Petition and Campaign Blog



Nick Wall from Merseyside GMB has set off a Number 10 Petition calling for a "living wage" rather than a "minimum wage" principle. It has as a corollary the idea of quite detailed local variation according to the cost of living which is kinda controversial but I've signed.

Nick has also set up a campaign resource blog. John Cruddas MP and Caroline Lucas MEP are among those endorsing the campaign.

Also spotted today. Left Politics for the 21st Century is a Facebook group that looks, shall we say, rather more scholarly than the herd.

2 comments:

Tom said...

Great to see this get going. So many excellent campaigns like this about these days.

Chris Paul said...

Indeed. What do you think about having a different rate for every location?

I would love it if Manchester Town Hall started a movement to pay £1 (at least) over the minimum throughout the city as a badge of progress from the poverty of the last century.