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Why Local authorities need “honest serving” men and women with the tools to ensure effective scrutiny

Dec 31, 2017By John's Labour blog

I have just been re-reading an excellent hard hitting report published earlier this month by the Select Committee on Communities and Local Government.

The Select Committee examined the grossly inadequate scrutiny arrangements in many Local Authorities…Read more…

Dec 31, 2017John's Labour blog

The first thing for Labour Party members in the New Year

Dec 31, 2017By Jon's union blog

The first phase of the Labour Party’s Democracy Review is very much upon us. The deadline for submissions on the organisational aspects of Young Labour, BAME Labour and Women’s Conference is 12 January 2018. The questions which are specifically as…Read more…

Dec 31, 2017Jon's union blog

Island Line Affected By New Year’s Eve Strike

Dec 31, 2017By Rtuc's Blog

By Charlotte Morgan  – 31st December 2017     Island Line is among rail services across the UK to be affected by strike action this New Year’s Eve. It’s the latest industrial action in an…Read more…

Dec 31, 2017Rtuc's Blog

The Alwen Trail (& The Fairy Freckled Cow)

Dec 30, 2017By John's Labour blog

Picture collage from a lovely walk in North Wales last week. A 7.5 mile circular walk around the Alwen Dam and Denbigh moors. The dam was built in 1911 and flooded an ancient sheep farm  valley in order to provide drinking water for Birkenhead in …Read more…

Dec 30, 2017John's Labour blog

Review: Artemis, by Andy Weir

Dec 30, 2017By Eric Lee

Andy Weir’s first book, The Martian, was nearly perfect. As I read it, I remember thinking: This is why I used to love reading science fiction. The film version starring Matt Damon, while…Read more…

Dec 30, 2017Eric Lee

#We Were Many – A Philosophy Football Review of 2017

Dec 30, 2017By John's Labour blog
Dec 30, 2017John's Labour blog

Standards rising in annual Bristol NUJ student awards

Dec 30, 2017By Bristol NUJ

A HEALTHY crop of entrants for the annual journalism awards for students at the University of the West of England saw standards rising once again, particularly for the new media entries. Highlights…Read more…

Dec 30, 2017Bristol NUJ

Protect the Protectors

Dec 29, 2017By John's Labour blog

This is an article written by our West Ham MP, Lyn Brown.  Seen here at the memorial to PC Nina Mackay. Over the Christmas and New Year holiday not only will public service workers be looking after us 24/7 but many of them will face abuse and viol…Read more…

Dec 29, 2017John's Labour blog

In 2018, we can heal the divides in our country by making sure everyone has a great job

Dec 29, 2017By TUC blogs

TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady looks forward to the new year, and the TUC’s 150th anniversaryRead more…

Dec 29, 2017TUC blogs

Democracy Rules…”Newham councillors welcome call to cancel trigger ballot result”

Dec 28, 2017By John's Labour blog

Latest in local newspaper about the “rigged” selection for Newham Mayor and call by local Councillors for an open and this time, democratic, selection process.

“Two councillors have welcomed mayor of Newham Sir Robin Wales’ call for Labour to cancel t…Read more…

Dec 28, 2017John's Labour blog

Review: Lenin the Dictator: An Intimate Portrait, by Victor Sebestyen

Dec 28, 2017By Eric Lee

This is the first major biography of the Soviet leader to appear in two decades, and comes as the world marks the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. It is a tremendous achievement….Read more…

Dec 28, 2017Eric Lee

Working people must be at the heart of technological process

Dec 28, 2017By TUC blogs

Automation advances must reach the everyday economyRead more…

Dec 28, 2017TUC blogs

Rising housing costs forcing public service workers out of London

Dec 27, 2017By John's Labour blog

I missed the launch of this excellent report by UNISON last month.  This is not just a crisis facing London but in high cost housing areas throughout the UK. I used the report for this motion and speech to the London Labour conference.

“UNISON la…Read more…

Dec 27, 2017John's Labour blog

Treason is punished, courage is rewarded – Napoleón Gómez Urrutia

Dec 27, 2017By Power In A Union

Excellent article from La Jornada, in Mexico, 21st December 2017 on Mexican trade unions and the Mexican independent union Los Mineros joining with Unite the Union and the United Steelworkers in our…Read more…

Dec 27, 2017Power In A Union

Kyffin Williams, ‘The Gathering, Farmers on Glyder Fach’

Dec 26, 2017By John's Labour blog

Top present this Christmas from my Mum was a 2018 calendar featuring the North Walian impressionist painter, Kyffin Williams. The “Gathering” is my favorite. Read more…

Dec 26, 2017John's Labour blog

A message for UNISON members at Christmas

Dec 25, 2017By Jon's union blog

Although I have stood down in the past year from all my elected positions within my trade union, UNISON, of which I am now simply a member like any other, I have not lost my interest in what UNISON, its activists and officials, are doing. Indeed, at Ch…Read more…

Dec 25, 2017Jon's union blog

Merry Communist Christmas

Dec 25, 2017By John's Labour blog

Merry Crimbo comrades (hat tip stroppy)Read more…

Dec 25, 2017John's Labour blog

This Christmas is a good time to fight racism

Dec 25, 2017By Jon's union blog

As regular readers of this blog might expect, I got into something of a row in a pub in the run up to Christmas about whether or not black workers experience systematic racial disadvantage in the workplace. I know what I know from the evidence of my ow…Read more…

Dec 25, 2017Jon's union blog

Sir Robin Wales speaking at Forest Gate ward meeting  4th January 2018

Dec 24, 2017By John's Labour blog

Dear John  Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Forest Gate North Labour Party.
Our next meeting is in January and will be a BIG EVENT. See details below:
 Forest Gate North Branch Meeting
Speaker: Sir Robin Wales will be speak…Read more…

Dec 24, 2017John's Labour blog

Anti Academies Protest Hallsville School

Dec 23, 2017By John's Labour blog

Photo college from protest outside Hallsville Primary School on Wednesday evening against the Academisation of our schools. The protest followed strike action in Avenue and Royal Docks School. I spoke at the protest as did other Councillors such a…Read more…

Dec 23, 2017John's Labour blog
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