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Colleagues,
Without doubt the 2015 general election outcomes present organised labour with considerable short and long-term challenges.
Len McCluskey’s statement represents, I feel, an important state of preparedness in what will clearly be a d…Read more…
This is the picture of the West Ham Labour Party election count team from 04.30 am this morning with our two successful candidates, Lyn Brown MP and Cllr Charlene McLean. This was at the Olympic Velopark.
Lyn was re-elected as our Member of Parliament…Read more…
The recovering price of oil should bring an immediate end to the oil and gas industry’s opportunistic campaign of job cuts and impositions to working conditions, Unite has said yesterday (May 7)….Read more…
German engineering giant Siemens announced yesterday (May 7) its plans to slash 4,500 jobs across the board – a further savage cull following their announcement in February that 7,800 posts would go….Read more…
Ebola – a disease that devastated West Africa last summer – is now a household name, as its viral tentacles spread rapidly from Guinea and then onwards to Sierra Leone and Liberia, leaving thousands…Read more…
The general election is over and I just want to thank UNISON members, activists and staff for all they did on behalf of UNISON before and during the campaign.Read more…
It’s a lot worse than I thought.
I think the Labour result leaves us in a real mess. The lack of progress in England will strengthen the argument that Labour was pulling too far to the Left. I don’t agree, but that is the claim that will be made. In c…Read more…
As the Tories are set to barely eke out an overall Commons majority this morning (May 8), TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady condemned Cameron’s divisive political tactics that will now spell…Read more…
We have to hope that David Cameron’s pledge to govern as a one nation Prime Minister will be his first major U-turn – for his campaign and manifesto was anything but.
The post Election 2015: This was not a one nation campaign appeared first on ToUChstone blog.Read more…
This isn’t a good country to wake up in this morning. The Tories are riding rampant, blue in tooth and claw.
It’s a little early for detailed reflection but we seem to be reaping the bitter harvest sown by a labour movement, the political wing of which peddled “austerity-lite” whilst our…Read more…
Last month, an overwhelming majority of the 2,000 members of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) replying to a survey said that their schools were providing support for children from deprived backgrounds. The same proportion – 84 per cent – said that they were providing more of…Read more…
Colleagues,
Just a quick post as I am tied up preparing for teaching this weekend, and I want to follow the news of the early outcomes of today’s general election in the UK.
So much hangs in the balance for the British labour movement of the election…Read more…
You can now watch on the TUC’s website the new documentary UDITA (ARISE) made by Rainbow Collective about the struggles that women trade unionists in the National Garment Workers Federation (NGWF)…Read more…
In a column in today’s Financial Times (‘What the next chancellor does not yet know’), Chris Giles sets the economic tone for the next Parliament in part on the basis of yet unknown productivity outcomes. For Giles, as for many others, productivity is an inherent quality or defect of the economy…Read more…
The polls are open until 10 o’clock tonight – so if you’ve not already voted, please get down there and have your sayRead more…
All Stoke-On-Trent City Council staff are invited to a free lunch event to be held 12 noon – 1pm in the Windsor Room, Stoke Town Hall on Wednesday 13 May 2015. This event is open to both members and non members … Continue reading →Read more…
Swingometers. Margins of error. Opinion Polls. Exit polls. Aren’t you sick them? If not yet, then you will be. What I learned from opinion polls is don’t rely on them. Work until you…Read more…
Vote for fairer taxes
such as a Bankers tax, £2 million Mansion tax & a 50p tax rate for the rich,
Vote to abolish
the Bedroom tax and the Health & Social Care Act (NHS privatisation),
Vote to increase
the number of nurses and faster treatment for cancer and access to your GPs
Vote…Read more…
I am not of course superstitious in the slightest (touch wood) but the during the final pre election Ilford North doorstep tonight, our team of mostly Westhammers, got a little wet and blown around by the wind but we also saw some stunning lucky Rainbo…Read more…
The polling stations open at 7am tomorrow and we’ll all get the chance to actually vote after what seems like one of the longest election campaigns in living memoryRead more…