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Fidelity "steers away from" own previous views?

May 31, 2015By Labour And Capital

Just a quick update, as I noted in a previous post Fidelity says it has “deliberately steered away from” addressing the question of scale/size/amount (or as they say “quantum”) of executive pay.

This hasn’t always been their view. It turns out that Fi…Read more…

May 31, 2015Labour And Capital

Getting the postal vote out for John Biggs as Labour Mayor for Tower Hamlets.

May 31, 2015By John's Labour blog

On Thursday evening I went to help the Labour Party candidate for Tower Hamlets Mayor, John Biggs and was given a bundle of letters addressed to postal voters to deliver in and around Leman Street, Whitechapel. I didn’t really know this part of Tower H…Read more…

May 31, 2015John's Labour blog

Stop the Tories ballot-rigging proposal

May 31, 2015By Martin Wicks

Stop the Tories ballot rigging proposals A letter to the Swindon Advertiser The parliamentary majority which the Tories won in the General Election was delivered by the undemocratic first past the post system (FPTP). Whilst they might be said to have a…Read more…

May 31, 2015Martin Wicks

IMPORTANT UPDATE: 48 Hour strike begins tomorrow

May 31, 2015By Barnet UNISON

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May 31, 2015Barnet UNISON

Why diet-ISDS is almost as bad as ISDS, and why we should oppose both

May 31, 2015By Touchstone blog

The popular outcry against Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), the element of trade deals which gives foreign investors a privileged route to claim compensation for measures they claim cost them future profits, led the European Union Trade Commissioner to come up earlier this month with an…Read more…

May 31, 2015Touchstone blog

London Coroner’s Careful Verdict Leaves Case for Pursuing Justice

May 31, 2015By RandomPottins

A London coroner has accepted that London student Jeremiah Duggan was killed when he ran into motorway traffic outside Wiesbaden, in Germany, as reported by witnesses; but rejected the German…Read more…

May 31, 2015RandomPottins

Remembering V1 “Doodlebug” attack on Forest Gate

May 31, 2015By John's Labour blog

Hat tip to local history site “E7 Now and Then” for an excellent post on the carnage that was caused by a V1 Rocket hitting Dames Road, Forest Gate on 27 July 1944.

A trolley bus and homes were destroyed and this was the horrific account by Cyril Dema…Read more…

May 31, 2015John's Labour blog

Partisan Song | Canción de los Partisanos

May 30, 2015By John's Labour blog

Least we forget.Read more…

May 30, 2015John's Labour blog

Filipino Nurses Protest outside the “racist” Daily Mail

May 30, 2015By John's Labour blog

Over 250 Filipino NHS nurses protested today outside the Headquarters of the right wing tabloid newspaper, The Daily Mail. They were demanding an apology from the Mail for racially stereotyping all Filipino nurses as potential “murderers”, following th…Read more…

May 30, 2015John's Labour blog

Caledonia Investments Tory cash drop 2

May 30, 2015By Labour And Capital

I’ve blogged previously about Caledonia Investments continuing to give the company’s money to the Conservative Party, this time without shareholder approval. I’ve just spotted that actually they have done it twice in the past few months, first in Eastl…Read more…

May 30, 2015Labour And Capital

Weak growth and extreme cuts a dangerous combination, says TUC

May 29, 2015By Rtuc's Blog

28 May 2015 Commenting on the latest release today (Thursday) from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on GDP figures, which confirms that the slowest recovery in modern history is slowing down…Read more…

May 29, 2015Rtuc's Blog

West Ham Labour nominates Sadiq Khan and Tessa Jowell as their London Mayoral Candidates

May 29, 2015By John's Labour blog

Over 80 members of West Ham Labour Party attended yesterday evening’s nomination meeting at Vicarage Lane Community centre, E15. At the beginning, our CLP Chair, Charlene McLean, called out the names of the 8 declared candidates and asked for proposers…Read more…

May 29, 2015John's Labour blog

Join us at Tower Hamlets tomorrow at 12 – Bethnal Green Station

May 29, 2015By John's Labour blog

Tower Hamlets Mayoral by-election – Sat 30 May 12pm
Please come and join us to help John Biggs become the Labour Mayoral of Tower Hamlets. We are meeting inside Bethnal Green station (just after the ticket barriers) at 12pm on Saturday. Don’t worr…Read more…

May 29, 2015John's Labour blog

We would like to discuss…

May 29, 2015By Rtuc's Blog

Since the General Election, some of us were thinking we would like to discuss Austerity as this has so many implications along with the Alternative, which is growth. In fact, we would like this…Read more…

May 29, 2015Rtuc's Blog

TTIP – European Parliament fight moves on

May 29, 2015By Stronger Unions

The international trade committee of the European Parliament (known as INTA) adopted a report yesterday on the controversial EU-US trade deal known as TTIP (Trans-Atlantic Trade & Investment…Read more…

May 29, 2015Stronger Unions

Missing in action: labour in ESG, again

May 29, 2015By Labour And Capital

A quick plug for the BlackRock/CERES report on shareholder engagement on ESG issues which is available here. There look to be quite a few interesting pieces in there from people who know what they are talking about.

I’m taking my little hobby horse ou…Read more…

May 29, 2015Labour And Capital

Labour needs trade union allies

May 29, 2015By UNITElive

Over my long life I have been many things: As a lad I was a child labourer who lived in cheap doss houses with my parents who had been made destitute by the Great Depression.   As a young man, I…Read more…

May 29, 2015UNITElive

“Height of insanity”

May 29, 2015By UNITElive

The Tories’ latest right-to-buy housing scheme will spell disaster for London’s already beleaguered housing market.   A key part of the Conservative manifesto, extending right-to-buy to housing…Read more…

May 29, 2015UNITElive

Morning Star and the EU: The EU is in trouble and it is the working class which poses the real threat to its future:

May 29, 2015By Rtuc's Blog

THE EU: ANTI- SOCIALIST AND ANTI-DEMOCRATIC May 2015 Tuesday 26th posted by Morning Star in Features The EU is in trouble and it is the working class which poses the real threat to its future, writes…Read more…

May 29, 2015Rtuc's Blog

EU: why Labour has to say yes

May 29, 2015By UNITElive

With a majority Conservative government that is slim and therefore vulnerable, and a government programme that a Guardian editorial this week described as ‘rag bag’, members in both Houses will be…Read more…

May 29, 2015UNITElive
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