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If you have not voted yet in the UNISON election for our new General Secretary then time is running out.
Vote for “MCANEA, Christina” with a single X to be the next General Secretary of UNISON. The first ever female leader of any big UK trade union. …Read more…
One of the things we’ve doing at work since the pandemic hit is looking at the spread of Covid in the workplace, in particular in food processing. My colleague Alice Martin wrote a really good research note on the sector which we published back in Sept…Read more…
On sea beds
of the Aegean.
Of the Mediterranean.
The post Who will remember them? appeared first on UNITElive.org.Read more…
The government’s incompetence in securing adequate levels of protective kit for health and care workers made big headlines during the first wave of the virus. But little seems to have changed months…Read more…
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the government has repeatedly refused to do what’s clearly needed: raise statutory sick pay and make it available for all.Read more…
The government’s plans are deeply unfair to key workers who’ve put themselves on the line throughout the pandemic. People we rely on everyday have been told to pay for a crisis they did not cause and…Read more…
UNISON celebrates the school support staff who go above and beyond to give our children the best possible education with our Stars in Our Schools campaign. Tina Kemp is one of them
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Private company abandons plan to make staff redundant and will now access the government furlough scheme
The article School catering staff win in the Wirral after UNISON pressure first appeared on…Read more…
Unite is calling for the creation of separate site operating procedures to cover both indoor and outdoor construction work following revelations by Professor Calum Semple that confirm Unite’s belief…Read more…
Check out this post and I have emailed an invite to many Newham activists but if you are a local Labour party supporter and are interested in attending then please email, message, Whatsapp or send via this blogs comments your contact details.
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PARTY COLOURS IN NORFOLKYou may think you know the colours used by political parties in the UK. However, it was not until recent times that colours were standardised. Quite often Cities, Towns and Counties had their own party coloursAs this repor…Read more…
On 11th November 1887, four of the Haymarket martyrs were executed in Chicago. They were anarchist labour organisers framed for a bombing by authorities because of their role in the fight for the 8-hour day. The holiday, International Workers Da…Read more…
School MealsWilliam Wilson, Labour MP for Westhoughton, Lancashire, Moved the Amendment to the Education Act to provide School Meals under the Education (Provision of Meals) Act 1906.We should also recognise the important role of Rachel & Mar…Read more…
“The headquarters of the present day Labour Movement in my town, faces that steeple on which William Kett was hanged, and we are continuing the fight that the Kett’s started so many centuries ago”Edwin GoochWymondham 1937
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The Labour Earl – The First Labour Peer2nd Earl of Kimberley – Lord John Wodehouse(10 December 1848 – 7 January 1932)Kimberley House near Wymondham”The Earl of Kimberley who has now definitely thrown his lot in withe the Labour Party””I cannot he…Read more…
Sidney Dye MP (4 August 1900 – 9 December 1958) At 16 joined the National Union of Agricultural Workers, At 19 he was already secretary of Wells-next-the-Sea branch. 1919 he assisted the formation of Wells Labour Party. Attended Ruskin College …Read more…
What I liked most about this book was that the authors raise questions without answering them. Instead of asserting, as so many books of this type do, that (fill in name here) conspired to kill…Read more…
Last month Aidan White from the new community newspaper “Newham Voices” interviewed me in my previous role on housing issues. Subscribe to Newham Voices for £5 per month via its website and you will get a free hard copy of the newspaper delivered…Read more…
Well done to the AMNT (Association of Member Nominated Trustees) for this excellent stance on the refusal of many pension fund managers to allow trustees and pensioners to hold them to account for the way they vote in company Annual General Meeti…Read more…