Workers at dust mask and respirator maker 3M, based in Newton Aycliffe in County Durham, will begin strike action next month in a pay dispute. The workers, who are members of Unite, will…Read more…
Carillion pensions scandal
Carillion’s pensions blackhole is at least £990m, the firm’s former chair of trustees has revealed – nearly twice previously thought. Following the revelation, Unite called for all possible…Read more…
How UNISON has helped beat the January blues
The union kicked off 2018 with a month of individual successes, stirring calls to action and an ingenious new campaign. And that was just in January. Here’s our ‘hi 5’ highlights
The article How…Read more…
‘Elated’
Tireless union campaigning has paid off, as Unite and its Bombardier members celebrated a massive victory at the weekend after US trade authorities ruled against crippling tariffs on imports of the…Read more…
Theses on Health and Education:
– by Kenneth Knapman January 28th, 2018 That Health and Education are key Necessities in the modern categories of social programmes (and there are other necessities). That they are governed by…Read more…
WW2: British Betrayal
British Betrayal of Its Own Convoys Carrying Supplies to Help the Soviets – Nikolay Starikov – The following is excerpted from the book Proxy Wars (St. Petersburg, 2017) by Russian…Read more…
End-of-year accounts for 2017 – branch audits
Information for honorary branch auditors from UNISON head of audit John Nagle
The article End-of-year accounts for 2017 – branch audits first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Unison City of Stoke on Trent Local Government Branch 2018-01-29 10:42:11
Health & Safety Spot Light. Strain on employees at work is seen to be a major cause of mental health issues, a government-commissioned report shows that mental health is costing the UK economy almost £100 billion a year and figures … Continue…Read more…
The Iranian regime is playing cat and mouse with trade unionists – take action
The struggle for trade union rights in Iran is being pursued not only by the workers of Iran themselves, but trade unionists around the world.Read more…
Getting fit with Labour (apart from eating chocolate cake)
Picture collage from yesterday’s Labour campaign session in my ward, West Ham, with our MP, Lyn Brown (and Cara, her infamous Labour attack dog).
West Ham ward and the wider West Ham CLP are “safe” Labour seats but it is humbling how much support we g…Read more…
How seriously do hedge funds take the Stewardship Code?
Just stumbled on this. Try Googling “generally supports the objectives that underlie the Code” and “consistent approach”. Someone somewhere drafted this text…
Shorting Carillion and funding the Tories at the same time
Councils need government grant to fund large scale council house building programme
This is an article published on the Labour Briefing website Raising the ‘borrowing cap’ is not a solution to the council housing shortage There has been much talk of late about councils being able to “ borrow to build” new council housing. …Read more…
“Tenants pay for housing fiascos, from post-Grenfell bills to ‘self-financing’ “
This was a letter published in the Guardian. The suggestion that lifting the borrowing cap will enable councils to build council housing on a grand scale ignores the funding crisis faced by local authority Housing Revenue Accounts. Council HRAs still h…Read more…
Newham For An Open Selection
It is game on for the rerun of the Newham Labour Mayoral trigger. Check out below :-
http://www.newhamforopenselection.org/
https://twitter.com/newhamselection
https://www.facebook.com/NewhamTriggerBallot/
More stuff to follow
Canada Post office exemplifies the Principle of Universality:
Workers Fight to Get Canada Post to Recognize Their Rights Negotiations at the Post Office and the Destruction of the Principle of Universality – Louis Lang – Negotiations are taking…Read more…
The holocaust is a constant reminder of the dangers of allowing hate, discrimination and division to develop and go unchallenged
On this day, we remember the precious lives lost and the deep grief felt by those who survived, honouring their memories by challenging hate and commit ourselves to ensure that “never again” is not…Read more…
Holocaust Survivor Mala Tribich MBE
I attended the Newham Holocaust Memorial Day 2018. Concentration camp survivor Mala Tribich, who lost her mother, father and sister gave a compelling account of Nazi murder, inhumanity and cruelty.
This is what happens if you do not stand up for…Read more…
Blog: Today I saw our union at its best
Teresa and Geoff are making a massive difference, even when times are tough. Thank you to them for the warm welcome today and for everything they, like all our activists, do for our union.
The…Read more…
Babes below the breadline
More than half of all children in the UK’s poorest areas are living in poverty because of government cuts, according to a new report. Figures analysed by the End Child Poverty charity show…Read more…