WE, the under-signed group of trade unionists, elected representatives, and others, are supporting the launch of the Oxford City Living Wage Campaign, a campaign to secure all workers in Oxford a real living wage – currently set at £9.26 an hour by the City Council.

Over the last decade, working people have been getting poorer. Record numbers of children in working families are living in poverty.

In Oxford, tens of thousands of workers receive grossly inadequate pay: wages so low that working people struggle to provide their families with food and shelter.

Oxford is one of the most expensive places in Britain to live. Here, the harm caused by inadequate pay hits hard.

We will be campaigning for a real living wage by raising awareness of the injustice of poverty pay, providing support to workers seeking a living wage, and helping to unite and build solidarity amongst low paid workers.

The campaign’s first organising meeting will be on September 11, at 7.30pm at the East Oxford Community Centre, Princes Street. All supporters of the campaign are welcome to attend.

Anneliese Dodds MP, Oxford East;

Layla Moran, MP Oxford West and Abingdon

Bob Price, leader, Labour group, Oxford City Council;

David Thomas, leader, Green group, Oxford City Council;

Liz Brighouse, leader Labour group, Oxon County Council;

Pól Ó Ceallaigh, president, Oxford & District Trades Union Council;

Lettitia Derrington, secretary, UNISON Oxford University & Colleges;

Michelle Codrington-Rogers, negotiating secretary, NASUWT Oxfordshire;

Caroline Glendinning, secretary, Oxford City UNISON;

Norman Gough, secretary, Unite SE 6250 branch;

Peter Hill, secretary, Universities and Colleges Union Oxford University, personal capacity;

Gigi Horsfield, treasurer, Oxford University & Colleges UNISON;

Jane Lacey, secretary, UNISON Oxon Health;

Gawain Little, national executive, National Education Union;

Bill MacKeith, National Union of Journalists delegate, O&DTUC ;

Tony Richardson, Unite SE 6250 delegate, Oxford TUC;

Stevie Robertson, secretary, GMB B10 Banbury No1 branch;

John G Walker, treasurer, UCU Southern Region retired members;

anie Wease, secretary, Oxfordshire County UNISON;

Jacob Armstrong, chair, Oxford University Student Union Living Wage Campaign;

Revd Eric Bossward, St Mary’s, Headington;

Liz Dowler, Teresa Smith, Margaret Wareing, Action on Child Poverty;

Lamis Hamdi, politics officer, Oxford Islamic Society;

Iris Kaye-Smith, Zoe Hodge, co-chairs, Oxford University Labour Club;

Oxford Labour Party executive committee;

John Paine, secretary, National Pensioners Convention Oxon; Sarah Wood, chair, Oxfordshire Green Party