Stop the taxpayer-funding of trade unions in Tameside Petition: Signature List Feed http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/stop-the-taxpayer-funding-of-trade-unions-in-tameside.html Online petition signatures en-us Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:43 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Julie Hibbert [Signature #326] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24218648?utm_medium=rss Fri, 11 Feb 2022 10:41:38 UTC 24218648 Julian Hawksworth [Signature #325] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18859556?utm_medium=rss Fri, 8 May 2015 01:59:57 UTC 18859556 nigel mather [Signature #324] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13714951?utm_medium=rss disgraceful waste of our council tax which is already far higher than should be.

]]> Sat, 8 Sep 2012 11:21:12 UTC 13714951 Isabel Clark [Signature #323] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13524454?utm_medium=rss I do not believe any taxpayer should have to pay for the unions. They collect subs from their members. What do they use that for?

]]> Sat, 11 Aug 2012 05:55:06 UTC 13524454 Isabel Clark [Signature #322] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13179337?utm_medium=rss I do not believe ANY taxpayers money should be used without the taxpayers' consent. This should be stopped immediately and the council called to account for misusing tax payers contributions.

]]> Mon, 25 Jun 2012 04:48:43 UTC 13179337 John Pearson [Signature #321] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12719535?utm_medium=rss Wed, 9 May 2012 09:32:43 UTC 12719535 Gareth Quinn [Signature #320] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12633197?utm_medium=rss It is not right for the Labour Party to have paid campaigners by the tax payer as that is all these people are!

]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 02:24:35 UTC 12633197 Anonymous [Signature #319] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12626894?utm_medium=rss Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:29:50 UTC 12626894 Anonymous [Signature #318] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12626828?utm_medium=rss Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:22:12 UTC 12626828 Susan Clarke [Signature #317] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12385656?utm_medium=rss Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:27:13 UTC 12385656 Anonymous [Signature #316] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12171607?utm_medium=rss Thu, 9 Feb 2012 05:28:28 UTC 12171607 Rosalind Gauci [Signature #315] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11950192?utm_medium=rss I believe it is totally out of order for Councils to fund trade union organisers - funding should come from the their representatives and not the tax payer. The Council should spend tax-payers' money more wisely now and keep politics out their boardrooms.

]]> Fri, 6 Jan 2012 03:58:09 UTC 11950192 WALTER THOMAS [Signature #314] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11726139?utm_medium=rss Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:33:31 UTC 11726139 Tom Reichert [Signature #313] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11467208?utm_medium=rss Sun, 6 Nov 2011 02:07:14 UTC 11467208 laurence dewhirst [Signature #312] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11457162?utm_medium=rss why should i pay for people to go on strike, and end up costing me more to pay for overtime to catch up on their workload.

]]> Sat, 5 Nov 2011 07:37:56 UTC 11457162 steven martin [Signature #311] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11365381?utm_medium=rss Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:08:41 UTC 11365381 Kenneth Bolton [Signature #310] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11346124?utm_medium=rss This is a blatant abuse of taxpayers money by a left wing Labour council. Another abuse is the payment taken from council tax (30%) to fund public servants pensions. Little wonder why council tax has trebled under Nu Labour.

]]> Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:27:03 UTC 11346124 Andrew Gaskin [Signature #309] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11300138?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:08:21 UTC 11300138 Roy West [Signature #308] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11294873?utm_medium=rss Free Speech Stop funding the Mafia

]]> Tue, 11 Oct 2011 04:12:01 UTC 11294873 Carl Simmons [Signature #307] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11183729?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Sep 2011 06:09:38 UTC 11183729 Carol Steele [Signature #306] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11167268?utm_medium=rss Thu, 15 Sep 2011 03:59:02 UTC 11167268 Ian Feltham [Signature #305] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11165481?utm_medium=rss Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:02:56 UTC 11165481 Andy Langton [Signature #304] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11147660?utm_medium=rss This practice needs to stop across the country.

]]> Mon, 12 Sep 2011 02:34:35 UTC 11147660 K Merret [Signature #303] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11139108?utm_medium=rss Fri, 9 Sep 2011 09:21:16 UTC 11139108 Mary Cremin [Signature #302] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11138059?utm_medium=rss Fri, 9 Sep 2011 04:34:49 UTC 11138059 Barbara Stark [Signature #301] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11130586?utm_medium=rss Some time ago i dicovered that union offcials were paid by local authorities to do union work full time. I could not beleive that this was happening, it just seemed so uttererly wrong for taxpayers to pay union officials, disregarding their own politcal persuasions.

]]> Wed, 7 Sep 2011 01:34:50 UTC 11130586 D Hartley [Signature #300] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11125708?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:08:54 UTC 11125708 Andy Whinelm [Signature #299] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11125704?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:08:03 UTC 11125704 RS Bamford [Signature #298] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11125697?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:06:38 UTC 11125697 Dominique Lazonshi [Signature #297] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11125690?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:04:05 UTC 11125690 Marina Fort [Signature #296] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11125686?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:03:10 UTC 11125686 L Simm [Signature #295] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11125683?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:01:59 UTC 11125683 Sarah Heywood [Signature #294] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11125679?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:00:52 UTC 11125679 Mike Smith [Signature #293] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11125673?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:59:59 UTC 11125673 Steve Blunt [Signature #292] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11125670?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:58:45 UTC 11125670 A Langer [Signature #291] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11125666?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:57:31 UTC 11125666 Lynne Stolt [Signature #290] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11125660?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:56:34 UTC 11125660 Kelron McDonald [Signature #289] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11125655?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:55:18 UTC 11125655 Emily Thurrell [Signature #288] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11125652?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:54:17 UTC 11125652 J Kelly [Signature #287] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11125647?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:53:29 UTC 11125647 Joyce Meredugh [Signature #286] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11125643?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:52:25 UTC 11125643 Caroline Swankwok [Signature #285] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11125638?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:51:06 UTC 11125638 R Rhodes [Signature #284] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11125633?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:50:14 UTC 11125633 M Buckle [Signature #283] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11125628?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:48:53 UTC 11125628 Duran Benamin O'Dwyer [Signature #282] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11125624?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:48:01 UTC 11125624 Liam Billington [Signature #281] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11125618?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:45:20 UTC 11125618 Philip Crane [Signature #280] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11125604?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:42:28 UTC 11125604 Edward Bowtell [Signature #279] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11125475?utm_medium=rss Under no circumstances should the taxpayer pay the expenses/salary/benefits of any employees who are wholly or partly employed in Trade Union business. Trade Unions must totally fund all the work carried out by their members whether part or full time.

]]> Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:11:03 UTC 11125475 chrisitine marshall [Signature #278] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11124946?utm_medium=rss i would not want to subscribe to any trade union

]]> Tue, 6 Sep 2011 08:59:33 UTC 11124946 S Davies [Signature #277] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11124539?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Sep 2011 06:59:45 UTC 11124539 Julian Over [Signature #276] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11120813?utm_medium=rss It is entirely unreasonable - should be criminal - for taxes to be used to pay people who work for any organisation but the body for which the taxes were collected.

]]> Mon, 5 Sep 2011 09:03:42 UTC 11120813 Ray Pothecary [Signature #275] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11119936?utm_medium=rss Long overdue that we taxpayers should be spared the insult of being robbed by government and the money given to unions we don't support.

]]> Mon, 5 Sep 2011 05:44:01 UTC 11119936 Peter Treasaden [Signature #274] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11119635?utm_medium=rss Mon, 5 Sep 2011 04:31:14 UTC 11119635 jamie cassidy [Signature #273] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11119546?utm_medium=rss Unions should also re-imburse councils and other employers the costs involved when thier representatives carry out union work on employers time

]]> Mon, 5 Sep 2011 04:11:40 UTC 11119546 Anonymous [Signature #272] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11119010?utm_medium=rss Not right the public fund the unions, should be the people who pay to be in the unions

]]> Mon, 5 Sep 2011 01:00:59 UTC 11119010 John Taylor [Signature #271] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11117189?utm_medium=rss It is disgraceful that the taxpayer should fund ANY Union activities, especially when they are not working in our interest.

]]> Sun, 4 Sep 2011 01:27:21 UTC 11117189 Graham Lucas [Signature #270] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11116033?utm_medium=rss Sun, 4 Sep 2011 11:05:15 UTC 11116033 Michael Ewles [Signature #269] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11115521?utm_medium=rss Sun, 4 Sep 2011 10:12:29 UTC 11115521 Adam Isherwood [Signature #268] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11115420?utm_medium=rss Sun, 4 Sep 2011 09:43:29 UTC 11115420 John Parks [Signature #267] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11115141?utm_medium=rss Sun, 4 Sep 2011 08:09:02 UTC 11115141 michael eve [Signature #266] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11114890?utm_medium=rss This approach should be adopted across the public sector

]]> Sun, 4 Sep 2011 06:41:25 UTC 11114890 Barbara Lockwood [Signature #265] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11114723?utm_medium=rss F.A.C.T. (Folk Against Council Tax and unfair Banding) Norfolk
Tax Payers funding of Unions by any local council is unfair and wrong. This should have been stopped long ago.----Barbara Norwich

]]> Sun, 4 Sep 2011 05:40:40 UTC 11114723 Anonymous [Signature #264] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11113345?utm_medium=rss NO trade union activity should be funded by the taxpayer.

]]> Sat, 3 Sep 2011 05:07:27 UTC 11113345 David Cunningham [Signature #263] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11113254?utm_medium=rss Why should the tax payer fund the unions and in turn fund the Labour Party.

]]> Sat, 3 Sep 2011 04:37:38 UTC 11113254 Ernest Robert Willescroft [Signature #262] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11112920?utm_medium=rss Sat, 3 Sep 2011 02:36:00 UTC 11112920 Ken Pitman [Signature #261] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11112547?utm_medium=rss Sat, 3 Sep 2011 12:16:58 UTC 11112547 Anonymous [Signature #260] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11112546?utm_medium=rss Unions are meant to be funded by their members and not by taxpayers

]]> Sat, 3 Sep 2011 12:16:48 UTC 11112546 Anonymous [Signature #259] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11112459?utm_medium=rss An absolute disgrace that my money is going into unions - something that I neither support nor believe in.

]]> Sat, 3 Sep 2011 11:38:42 UTC 11112459 Nye H-W [Signature #258] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11112271?utm_medium=rss Aren't trade unions supposed to work in the interests of the workers⸮

]]> Sat, 3 Sep 2011 10:31:04 UTC 11112271 Robert Humber [Signature #257] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11112189?utm_medium=rss Sat, 3 Sep 2011 10:00:56 UTC 11112189 John Roger Bell [Signature #256] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11111885?utm_medium=rss Stop wasting my money on unions

]]> Sat, 3 Sep 2011 08:00:59 UTC 11111885 richard harnden [Signature #255] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11111797?utm_medium=rss Sat, 3 Sep 2011 07:28:31 UTC 11111797 David Hawkins [Signature #254] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11111789?utm_medium=rss should never have been allowed (could this payment be seen as buying votes)j

]]> Sat, 3 Sep 2011 07:26:45 UTC 11111789 Matt Durcan [Signature #253] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11111689?utm_medium=rss I am a strong supporter of Trade Union activity.. so much so that I am prepared to pay for my own benefits myself, not get someone else to fund it. The current funding scheme detracts rather than enhances trade union action legitimacy.. do we need a vote in favour from all taxpayers before we do anything???

]]> Sat, 3 Sep 2011 06:45:53 UTC 11111689 Richard Hambridge [Signature #252] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11111662?utm_medium=rss Sat, 3 Sep 2011 06:31:33 UTC 11111662 Michael Baugh [Signature #251] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11111642?utm_medium=rss Sat, 3 Sep 2011 06:22:27 UTC 11111642 john webb [Signature #250] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11111633?utm_medium=rss Sat, 3 Sep 2011 06:19:49 UTC 11111633 Grahame Leon-Smith [Signature #249] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11111588?utm_medium=rss It is quite appalling for any council to use council tax payers' money to fund trade union organisers. They should be paid from the subscriptions of the members of the trade union itself. The Independents Federation is totally opposed to this and it should be made illegal. Council Tax must only be used for the direct provision of council services.
Grahame Leon-Smith, Party Leader Independents Federation, www.independents-federation.org.uk Email: info@independents-federation.org.uk

]]> Sat, 3 Sep 2011 05:59:10 UTC 11111588 Anthony Manders [Signature #248] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11111486?utm_medium=rss No trade union should receive any tax payers money

]]> Sat, 3 Sep 2011 05:10:47 UTC 11111486 Melvyn Greenacre [Signature #247] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11111390?utm_medium=rss Any tax payers money used to fund or part fund any type of union activity is totally wrong and should be stopped asap

]]> Sat, 3 Sep 2011 04:16:08 UTC 11111390 John Chippington [Signature #246] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11111287?utm_medium=rss Sat, 3 Sep 2011 03:17:22 UTC 11111287 Glenn Comiskey [Signature #245] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11111259?utm_medium=rss Taxpayer's money should never be used to fund trade union activity, even if public services aren't being cut. Trade union activity should be funded by its members, and if there aren't enough members to fund it it's a clear indication that people are bothered. Public money should be used for public services only.

]]> Sat, 3 Sep 2011 02:56:02 UTC 11111259 John Barton [Signature #244] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11111250?utm_medium=rss I think that funding the unions which are set against the savings that are required to balance public budgets is not only wrong but criminal.

]]> Sat, 3 Sep 2011 02:48:13 UTC 11111250 Anonymous [Signature #243] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11110651?utm_medium=rss I am a union member and support unions, but we should pay for unions ourselves through our subscriptions. Maybe if union bosses weren't paid so much and were more careful with their members money, we wouldn't need to depend on taxpayers!

]]> Fri, 2 Sep 2011 07:05:25 UTC 11110651 Bob Smith [Signature #242] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11110368?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Sep 2011 05:02:20 UTC 11110368 Brian Johnson [Signature #241] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11110287?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Sep 2011 04:27:04 UTC 11110287 Lisa lambert [Signature #240] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11110236?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Sep 2011 04:11:50 UTC 11110236 David Bowcock [Signature #239] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11110069?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Sep 2011 03:24:22 UTC 11110069 alan and eileen broomhead and pohl [Signature #238] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11110055?utm_medium=rss i think it is disgusting and totaly inapropriate
for the council to allow this,and any trade union activities should be done in their spare
time instead of using council time and being
paid for it to boot

]]> Fri, 2 Sep 2011 03:20:12 UTC 11110055 Ronald Alexander [Signature #237] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11109920?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Sep 2011 02:43:42 UTC 11109920 Adam Gale [Signature #236] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11109910?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Sep 2011 02:40:45 UTC 11109910 John Spurgeon [Signature #235] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11109811?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Sep 2011 02:07:41 UTC 11109811 Barry Hobbs [Signature #234] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11109749?utm_medium=rss Trade Unions have very healthy bank balances . Why at any time should taxpayers foot the bill for their organisors.

]]> Fri, 2 Sep 2011 01:46:44 UTC 11109749 Robert Waller [Signature #233] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11109627?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Sep 2011 01:12:29 UTC 11109627 John Duckett [Signature #232] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11109595?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Sep 2011 01:04:42 UTC 11109595 david Fewkes [Signature #231] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11109515?utm_medium=rss This practice sould be stopped throughout all public sectors, NHS, Police, Prisons etc.

]]> Fri, 2 Sep 2011 12:41:35 UTC 11109515 Joseph Green [Signature #230] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11109453?utm_medium=rss This is a clear misappropriation of other people's money ("other people" being the taxpayers).

]]> Fri, 2 Sep 2011 12:23:59 UTC 11109453 Kevin Hughes [Signature #229] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11109430?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Sep 2011 12:18:39 UTC 11109430 Donald Morris [Signature #228] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11109422?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Sep 2011 12:17:08 UTC 11109422 Richard Sharp [Signature #227] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11109371?utm_medium=rss Trades Union members should be responsible for the payment of wages/loss of pay even up to full wage/salary through their Union subscriptions for work-place union activities, NOT taxpayers by either National or Council taxes.

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