General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
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Homes for people not for profit
Housing campaigner STEPHANIE MARTIN explains how her community-led union has fought back against Wheatley Homes’ social cleansing plans to demolish four 26-storey high-rise blocks in Glasgow
A YCL banner hangs from one of the occupied tower block
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AS CHAIR of Wyndford Resident’s Union (WRU) I supported our community fightback against energy price gouging in April 2022, when we forced SSE to enact a price freeze for 10,000 households across Scotland.
We are a community-led union that knows how to win. So when Wheatley Homes, Scotland’s largest social housing monopoly, began a crusade against our community through the demolition of four 26-storey high-rise blocks, we were ready to launch a fightback with power in our punch.
The high-rise buildings on Wyndford Road, containing a total of 600 socially rented homes, were built in the 1960s to accommodate retired tenants in one-bedroom and bedsit flats. They were highly lucrative properties, which at one point had Glasgow’s elderly population queueing to get in.
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