A great picture from the end of last night’s Labour Party selection meeting, where local members voted overwhelmingly to return their existing Councillors, Rachel Tripp and Anamul Islam, as candidates for the local elections in May. The vacant position…Read more…
The Bitcoin Speculative Surge
The parasitism and decay within the economy is so pronounced, pay-the-rich schemes and scams have become normal and officially acceptable. In this regard, Bitcoin has begun trading on the…Read more…
Re-selected as West Ham Labour (& future Co-operative Party) Councillor Candidate 2018
I am very pleased that I was reselected today as a Labour Party candidate for the local elections in May 2018 for West Ham ward in Newham, London.
Both myself and my Councillor colleague, John Whitworth, were affirmed at the first ballot.
Many, man…Read more…
Probe call into ‘disappearing’ Carillion NHS pension contributions
22 February 2018 UNITE A top level probe into where the pension payments of NHS and other public sector workers, employed by Carillion, have ‘disappeared to’ was called for today (Thursday 22…Read more…
Who Should Decide the Working and Learning Conditions in Schools?
The people who do the work should decide their terms of employment, and, in consultation with those directly affected by the work, they should also decide the direction of the sector. Teachers,…Read more…
Carillion: A Criminally Corrupt Organisation Aided and Abetted by the Government
The recent collapse of Carillion is a vivid example of the ever-deepening crisis and criminally corrupt character of a system that is solely interested in paying the rich without regard for the needs…Read more…
Collapse of Carillion and the NHS:
Collapse of Carillion and the NHS Fight for the Alternative to this Profit-Making Racket of Finance Capital in the NHS The collapse of Carillion brought to the fore the scale of the involvement of…Read more…
South East London Campaign Stops Cuts In Children’s Mental Health:
The Save Lewisham Hospital Campaign (SLHC) recently led a successful fight to oppose proposed cuts to children’s mental health services in Lewisham Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service…Read more…
On the “dog & bone” 4 Rokhsana 4 Mayor
I love this picture from the telephone bank tonight of Newham Labour Party members supporting the selection of Councillor Rokhsana Fiaz as the Labour Party candidate to be our next Directly Elected Mayor.
As well as telephone canvassers, there were te…Read more…
Living Wage – public sector leadership
The living wage movement is an international one. There are differences in context and approach, but the underlying principles are the same.
I have spent the last two days in Ontario, Canada, as a…Read more…
Blow to East Antrim economy
Employees at tyre pressure firm Sensata Technologies were informed by management this morning (February 23) that there would be one hundred and twenty-five jobs going at the company’s Carrickfergus…Read more…
UNISON launches new mobile face-to-face advice service for workers in Edinburgh and the Lothians
UNISON is today (Friday) launching a new face-to-face advice service for employees working in care homes, GP practices or out in the community. The mobile advice unit – a custom-made vehicle with an…Read more…
End RBS branch closures call
Unite Scotland held RBS branch protests today (February 23) as the bank announced top line profits before tax of £2.2bn even amid a mass branch closure programme. Even after tax, set aside for…Read more…
Fujitsu demo
Protestors held a demonstration this morning (February 23) outside Fujitsu’s offices in Manchester. They accused the company of using the cover of redundancies to get rid of workers who blew the…Read more…
AI and Jobs:
Tech companies should stop pretending AI won’t destroy jobs Posted on February 23, 2018 by Tony Burke http://www.powerinaunion.co.uk/tech-companies-should-stop-pretending-ai-wont-destroy-jobs/ The…Read more…
UNISON welcomes moves to protect apprentices
‘Largest apprenticeship provider in the north of England’ signs up to UNISON apprenticeships charter
The article UNISON welcomes moves to protect apprentices first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
University Pensions Strikes Reports, BBC, NSSN, UCU:
Emotions run high on university pickets By Hannah Richardson BBC News education reporter Ashley Hayward stands anxiously on the picket line outside the Senate House library in the heart of…Read more…
Tech companies should stop pretending AI won’t destroy jobs
The following blog is from MIT Technology Review and puts an alternative view on the current trend by some politicians and techies who argue that automation will create more and new jobs. Of course…Read more…
Public sector staff are overstretched and under-appreciated, says UNISON
Commenting on the TUC’s new analysis of unpaid overtime in the UK, released today (Friday) to coincide with the 14th annual Work Your Proper Hours Day. UNISON assistant general secretary Christina…Read more…
Work Your Proper Hours Day – tackling the culture of unpaid overtime
UK workers gave their employers £31.2 billion of free labour last year, doing a grand total of two billion hours unpaid overtime.Read more…