Food and Work Network (FAWN)
@FoodandWorkNet1
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FAWN brings academics, trade unionists, community campaigners to understand the connections between structural food inequality and working conditions in the UK.
Joined February 2023
We are proud to be playing our part in the Right To Food UK Commission launching in Parliament on Monday No one should be going hungry in the UK in 2025. We will deliver a roadmap for #RightToFood legislation that ends hunger. More info at: https://t.co/sZkyTNMax5
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These shocking figures lay out clearly the link between in-work poverty and food insecurity We need a #righttofood but an end to the systemic reasons why people are feeling insecure about food in the first place
16m Britons (24% of the population) live in poverty. 10m live in families in full-time work. 5.2m children live in poverty (36%). Austerity, low wages, benefits, pension take toll. Destroy lives. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. https://t.co/XcmTFfivmo
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Great to read how @MayorofLondon Universal Free School Meals in London helps families financially & improves health, wellbeing & concentration levels of children. Exactly why Universal Free School Meals are a key ask of our national #RightToFood campaign. https://t.co/scse5Ocyc8
ianbyrne.org
Universal free primary school meals in London have helped boost the health and wellbeing of families - new report on @MayorofLondon's initiative. Why they should be provided in all schools, all ages, across all Britain. https://t.co/hyA9PIQ53m
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We attended a brilliant community event on County Road this weekend alongside Walton Community Shop, @SFoodbanks and Love Walton CIC đ We support a #RightToFood and had clear messages for the politicians gathering in #Liverpool for the Labour Party Conference tomorrow.
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âWe can end the need for food banks, but we can't do it aloneâ #HungerIsAPoliticalChoice
#RightToFood
newstatesman.com
Reform of our social security system would not only end hardship, but benefit our countryâs future.
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âAccess to affordable, safe, nutritious food should neither be a charitable act nor a luxury, but a basic rightâ - I am standing with trade unionists, academics calling @Keir_Starmer to tackle food insecurity @FoodandWorkNet1 @feedinglpool @SFoodbanks @GeoFoodieOrg @DrLJBHayes
Unions join academics and anti-poverty campaigners from @FoodandWorkNet1 to demand an end to Foodbank Britain through stronger workplace and trade union rights + genuine social security https://t.co/MTgPPQvRec
@RightToFoodLDN @IERUK @Sfoodbanks @IanByrneMP @TrussellUK @CPAGUK
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Prospect supports the call to end food bank Britain. Mike Clancy has joined union leaders and @FoodandWorkNet1 campaigners urging the Prime Minister to tackle food insecurity.
labourlist.org
General secretaries of some of the country's leading trade unions have called upon Keir Starmer and the new Labour government to tackle food insecurity andâŚ
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Union leaders call on Keir Starmer to end âfood bank Britainâ
Leaders of the some of the country's leading trade unions have called on the government to stop austerity and bring an end to 'food bank Britain'
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Food bank use soared under the Tories. This can't go on. The Labour Government must tackle poverty across Britain by ending 14 years of Tory austerity once and for all.
Leaders of the some of the country's leading trade unions have called on the government to stop austerity and bring an end to 'food bank Britain'
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Union leaders join academics and anti/poverty campaigners from @FoodandWorkNet1 in sending an open letter to @Keir_Starmer warning that the government must not allow foodbanks to be normalised in Britain
Leaders of the some of the country's leading trade unions have called on the government to stop austerity and bring an end to 'food bank Britain'
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Union leaders call on Keir Starmer to end âfood bank Britainâ â via @LabourList
labourlist.org
General secretaries of some of the country's leading trade unions have called upon Keir Starmer and the new Labour government to tackle food insecurity andâŚ
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Trade unionists and campaigners call on Labour to end Food Bank Britain and never to accept the normalisation of food insecurity in this country The @FoodandWorkNet1 are proud to have been involved in making this call @Calderbank @TUCGinfo @UnityConsults @BFAWUOfficial
Leaders of the some of the country's leading trade unions have called on the government to stop austerity and bring an end to 'food bank Britain'
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As Britain prepares to vote tomorrow please see an article on poverty and food insecurity from a couple of weeks back by Food and Work Network Organisers Prof Alex Colas, @Calderbank & @TommyKane3
https://t.co/asW7RmE9nc
morningstaronline.co.uk
FOUR weeks in from Rishi Sunakâs increasingly fratricidal decision to call a snap election, the country is still waiting on the main political parties to set out any kind of vision that will tackle...
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Please sign up to our latest work shop on the 19th of July Connecting Struggles Across the Food Supply Chain â FAWN: Food & Work Network
fawn.org.uk
This workshop to be held at Birkbeck, University of London aims to facilitate some early conversations on âsupply chain solidarityâ and explore how we might connect different movements organising...
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Great @TUCLeeds hybrid AGM tonight! @BFAWUOfficial's @sarahwoolley01 gave keynote on organising against anti-union laws, @strike_map, #RightToFood campaign & work of @FoodandWorkNet1. Stark reality: many workers *cannot afford* enough nutritious food in the UK (incl food workers)
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A very engaging @TUCLeeds AGM speaker in the form of @BFAWUOfficial General Secretary @sarahwoolley01: her remarks about the #RightToFood campaign and @FoodandWorkNet1 were both moving and eye-opening - see this presentation for the background https://t.co/cV02bNWAAT
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âThe business model itself demands exploitationâ Food delivery workers speak of the acute problems of low paid insecure work and zero hours contracts #WithoutAccesstoJustice @DrLJBHayes @FoodandWorkNet1 @BFAWUOfficial
https://t.co/tmZkn5UQ2o
amp.theguardian.com
Delivery services are only viable if someone is underpaid. Little wonder riders went on strike, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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