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At last, a union standing up for women. Bravo, Scottish Tenants Union!

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ArabellaScott · 19/03/2025 08:15

From their new crowdfunder:

'The STO was founded over one hundred years ago at the end of the first world war by working class women, to represent their communities. Today we exist to do just that, representing the majority of Scots who live in public housing schemes and fighting for those who want to.

Crowdfunding Appeal: Help Us Build a Women-Led Tenants Union
Donate today to protect single-sex spaces, stop cancel culture, and empower working-class women.


The Crisis of Our Institutions, Set Up To Defend Working Class People.
Scotland’s unions have abandoned women.

  • Unison, Unite, and the STUC have all made coded statements attacking nurse Sandy Peggie, a feminist campaigner who dared to defend single-sex services for vulnerable women.
  • Living Rent—which calls itself “Scotland’s tenants union”—now prioritises gender ideology over tenants. They endorsed decriminalising brothels and smeared gender critical housing activists like Ellenor Hutson and Laura Jones as “transphobes” for opposing landlord collusion. As a direct result of this, half a dozen working class women were hounded out of the organisation, and a male staffer, Nick Durie, was constructively dismissed for privately holding gender critical views.
  • Single-sex homeless shelters are vanishing, and vital women’s aid and rape crisis centres are pressured to allow trans identified males, while unions lecture women about “inclusivity” instead of safety.

This is not solidarity—it’s betrayal.'

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ArabellaScott · 19/03/2025 08:34

'Membership is open to all public housing tenants and right to buy owners who support our aims.'

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INeedAPensieve · 19/03/2025 08:26

Wow Arabella this is a great achievement! Who can join this union? I'm in an organisation completely captured, funded by Scottish government and our unions are either unison or unite (I left unison and I'm not joining unite, no point). I want to join one that would actually help women and girls but being part of civil service (albeit not directly Scot.gov) I am struggling. Just keeping my head down at work but I'd love to join a union that actually defends our rights. This is brilliant but appears to be housing only. I'll donate to them though. Every little helps...

ArabellaScott · 19/03/2025 08:17

Website: https://sto.scot/about

STO

https://sto.scot/about

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ArabellaScott · 19/03/2025 08:16

Continues:

'- Zero tolerance for sectarianism: No witch hunts, no cancel culture. We work with anyone and any group who will uphold that principle, and advance tenants rights and agency.

  • Pro-women, pro-equality: We defend all protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010—especially women and girls. Women are bearing the brunt of decades of austerity. We seek to be a voice for women in housing schemes, who have been ignored, their struggles mocked by fashionable falsehoods, and government alike.
  • No Greens/Labour/SNP/etc ties: We work for tenants, not politicians.

Join Us
Donate now to help us:
🔹 Protect single-sex spaces
🔹 Stop cancel culture targeting feminists
🔹 Rebuild working-class women’s power

Every £50 funds a training session for housing scheme leaders. Every £500 helps us fight a demolition order.'

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