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One of our UMUCU members is asking for your support for a Manchester City Council motion to divest the Greater Manchester Pension Fund from arms and fossil fuels. The GMPF currently invests £1.74 billion in companies like BP, Shell, and BAE Systems. On 27 November, the council will hear a motion to divest from these companies.

There’s no guarantee that the motion will pass (it’s a Green Party motion, and the Labour majority has yet to say whether they’ll support it).

If you’re a Manchester resident, your council taxes help to fund the GMPF. Additionally, UCU members can play an important role in supporting this motion because the USS recently sold off £80 million of Israeli assets—which shows that it can be done. If you’d like to support this motion, please follow the link above to contact your councillors.