Please take action to encourage your members/activists to lobby MPs on Thursday 9 June at the big “Tea Time for Change” parliamentary lobby - home page: http://teatimeforchange.org.uk/community/
What we’re calling for
Called by the major development aid agencies the lobby has three objectives, all in line with TUC policy:
• Keeping up the commitment to overseas aid (thrown into doubt recently by Defence Secretary Liam Fox’s leaked letter)
• Stopping tax dodging – a critical issue for developing countries, but pretty important in the UK too!
• And calling for the British Government to support a Robin Hood Tax
What will happen on the day?
The way Teatime for Change works is that your union members register an interest in seeing their MP at http://teatimeforchange.org.uk/community/signup - then go to Westminster on Thursday 9 June, and have tea with their MP at Westminster Central Hall, making the arguments that are set out on the Teatime for Change website (downloadable lobby pack at http://teatimeforchange.org.uk/community/files/teatime-lobby-pack.pdf ). In particular, there’s a special page on the Robin Hood Tax campaign at http://teatimeforchange.org.uk/community/blogs/45/7/could-2011-be-the-year-of-the-ro
How you can promote this to union members and activists
Embed the following video on your website:
Send an email round any email lists you have access to about signing up to lobby -remember, that’s at http://teatimeforchange.org.uk/community/signup
And, if people cannot make the lobby on 9 June, they could always lobby their MP locally using the materials on the Teatime for Change website.
What we’re calling for
Called by the major development aid agencies the lobby has three objectives, all in line with TUC policy:
• Keeping up the commitment to overseas aid (thrown into doubt recently by Defence Secretary Liam Fox’s leaked letter)
• Stopping tax dodging – a critical issue for developing countries, but pretty important in the UK too!
• And calling for the British Government to support a Robin Hood Tax
What will happen on the day?
The way Teatime for Change works is that your union members register an interest in seeing their MP at http://teatimeforchange.org.uk/community/signup - then go to Westminster on Thursday 9 June, and have tea with their MP at Westminster Central Hall, making the arguments that are set out on the Teatime for Change website (downloadable lobby pack at http://teatimeforchange.org.uk/community/files/teatime-lobby-pack.pdf ). In particular, there’s a special page on the Robin Hood Tax campaign at http://teatimeforchange.org.uk/community/blogs/45/7/could-2011-be-the-year-of-the-ro
How you can promote this to union members and activists
Embed the following video on your website:
Send an email round any email lists you have access to about signing up to lobby -remember, that’s at http://teatimeforchange.org.uk/community/signup
And, if people cannot make the lobby on 9 June, they could always lobby their MP locally using the materials on the Teatime for Change website.
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