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The Plaistow Land Grabbers

Sep 30, 2018By John's Labour blog

“Hat tip to a great post by “E7 Now & Then” on “The Plaistow Land Grabbers” who are an largely forgotten but important part of the radical history of West Ham. A second post is to follow.

In a protest against unemployment, local plumber and local …Read more…

Sep 30, 2018John's Labour blog

Frances O’Grady’s Speech At The Jimmy Reid Foundation Memorial Lecture, 27th September 2018

Sep 30, 2018By Power In A Union

Frances O’Grady was introduced by Lynn Henderson, the vice-chair of the project board of the Foundation. Lynn is also this year’s STUC President and a longstanding national officer of the PCS union….Read more…

Sep 30, 2018Power In A Union

Just one more thing about Ryanair….

Sep 30, 2018By Labour And Capital

I can see that there were at least a couple of asset managers that did not vote against either David Bonderman as chairman or Kryan McLaughlin as senior independent director. And reasons given for this are that they expect the company to make changes a…Read more…

Sep 30, 2018Labour And Capital

Review: Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was, by Sjón

Sep 30, 2018By Eric Lee

I read this book during the same week that I saw a theatrical adaptation of Albert Camus’ novel, The Plague. Both works are concerned with epidemics, but there the similarity ends. While the…Read more…

Sep 30, 2018Eric Lee

Elon Musk and the SEC

Sep 30, 2018By Labour And Capital

This week has seen reality start to catch up with Elon Musk’s Twitter feed. Earlier in the year he famously tweeted that he had “Funding secured” to take Tesla private at $420 a share. This was something of a shock to external shareholders, analysts, t…Read more…

Sep 30, 2018Labour And Capital

West Ham Plays Away at Sunny Solidarity Saturday in Chingford & Woodford Green

Sep 29, 2018By John's Labour blog

West Ham CLP came over today to their nearby sister constituency of Chingford and Woodford Green to support Labour candidate, Faiza Shaheen, who is standing against sitting Tory MP, Ian Duncan Smith.

While driving on route I passed the famous Walthams…Read more…

Sep 29, 2018John's Labour blog

We’re Rebuilding Britain

Sep 28, 2018By John's Labour blog

In Newham and want to challenge? I will be outside the Atherton centre tomorrow at 10.20am to take a car to Chingford and Woodford to get rid of Tory IDSRead more…

Sep 28, 2018John's Labour blog

No more Carillions

Sep 28, 2018By UNITElive

Unite held a highly successful fringe meeting at Labour Party conference.

The meeting titled ‘Ending Bandit Capitalism – No More Carillions’, looked at why Carillion collapsed, examined how…Read more…

Sep 28, 2018UNITElive

RBS closures ‘rubber-stamped’

Sep 28, 2018By UNITElive

Unite today (September 28) has criticised the announcement by Johnston Carmichael and RBS that only two branches survive the stay of execution in Scotland.   The review, which has been under way…Read more…

Sep 28, 2018UNITElive

Central London bus shake-up

Sep 28, 2018By UNITElive

Proposals for the biggest shake-up in over 16 years of London’s central bus network will leave bus drivers worried for their future their union Unite warned today (September 28), as it called on…Read more…

Sep 28, 2018UNITElive

North west council becomes latest to sign up to ethical care

Sep 28, 2018By Dave Prentis blog

A big change for homecare workers in Knowsley

The article North west council becomes latest to sign up to ethical care first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…

Sep 28, 2018Dave Prentis blog

NHS pay gap shock

Sep 28, 2018By UNITElive

A shocking pay gap between black and white NHS staff – in some cases one of up to nearly £10,000 — has been revealed by new research.   The pay gap problem is even further compounded for…Read more…

Sep 28, 2018UNITElive

Goldsmiths cleaners celebrate winning a return in house

Sep 28, 2018By Dave Prentis blog

Workers were set to lose hours and pay, but campaigning has seen the employer move to bring the team back in house

The article Goldsmiths cleaners celebrate winning a return in house first appeared…Read more…

Sep 28, 2018Dave Prentis blog

Tribune Is Back! Left newspaper now high quality bi-monthly magazine

Sep 28, 2018By Power In A Union

By Adrian Weir After a seven month absence left wing magazine Tribune was relaunched in Liverpool this week at two packed meetings, at The World Transformed and at the Labour Party Conference. The…Read more…

Sep 28, 2018Power In A Union

‘National scandal’

Sep 28, 2018By UNITElive

Unite Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) members working in the north division have moved one step closer to strike action after a consultative ballot in which 75 per cent voted to strike over working…Read more…

Sep 28, 2018UNITElive

September – and we are on song!

Sep 28, 2018By Dave Prentis blog

Health pay, local government cuts, outsourcing, Brexit…. new term, same curriculum

The article September – and we are on song! first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…

Sep 28, 2018Dave Prentis blog

‘Worst is yet to come’

Sep 28, 2018By UNITElive

In a remarkable mutiny against their own party, Tory council chiefs in England have warned the “worst is yet to come” in brutal local authority spending cuts.   The predominately Conservative…Read more…

Sep 28, 2018UNITElive

Ten years after the crash, the UK economy is going nowhere

Sep 28, 2018By TUC blogs

After eight years of austerity, today’s revisions to the second quarter GDP figures suggest there’s no light at the end of the tunnel for workers feeling the squeezeRead more…

Sep 28, 2018TUC blogs

Poverty pay UK – millions of self-employed earn less than the minimum wage

Sep 28, 2018By TUC blogs

Two million out of the UK’s four million self-employed workers are now stuck on poverty payRead more…

Sep 28, 2018TUC blogs

“Support our strike and say no to pension poverty and privatisation”

Sep 27, 2018By John's Labour blog

Support Staffordshire strike
Dear John,

Staffordshire University employers have announced that they will move lower-paid staff into a “subco” or wholly-owned subsidiary company, …Read more…

Sep 27, 2018John's Labour blog
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