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Hat tip Mayor Rokhsana Fiaz “**Please share widely** We want the best youth workers for our children and young people in Newham! 👌🏽
Am really pleased to announce that today we launched the largest recruitment campaign for youth workers in Newham for a…Read more…
The closure of Fiddler’s Ferry coal-fired power station in Warrington by next March is ‘grim news’ for the workforce and the North West economy, Unite said today (June 13). Unite has about 110…Read more…
A total of 900 bus drivers in South Yorkshire are holding two days of strike action after rejecting the ‘insulting’ offer of a one year pay freeze, Unite said today (June 13). The workers,…Read more…
Unite said it would be going to the Supreme Court to appeal today’s (June 13) decision by the Court of Appeal which overturned previous rulings by an employment appeal tribunal and employment…Read more…
I first read George Orwell’s account of his time in Spain many years ago, and now re-read in advance of a visit to Barcelona. I am actually writing this review from the hotel in which Orwell…Read more…
Labour’s most recent effort to block a cliff-edge Brexit last night (June 12) was narrowly defeated in the Commons by a margin of 11. MPs voted against a motion tabled by Labour that would…Read more…
This morning I went on my 3rd recent walkabout of the Hamfirth estate area with Newham Council Technical, Caretaking and Repairs officers to produce an action plan to this evenings’ meeting with residents at the Atherton Leisure Centre, E7.
We are goi…Read more…
Unite is continuing its campaign against NHS privatisation – most recently by raising a warning flag over proposals to transfer 1,000 staff at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust to a wholly owned…Read more…
Too many employers are using NDAs to shirk responsibility for tackling and eradicating sexual harassment, discrimination and bullying at work.Read more…
Shocking but the blame lies with this Tory Government for this cut – not the BBC.
Free TV licences for the over 75’s was a long standing policy which was paid for by the Government. Then the Government said they will not pay for it anymore.
Are we no…Read more…
Staff and students have suffered serious injuries as a result of offensive weapons being brought into colleges, according to a UNISON survey published today (Tuesday). Machetes, hammers, metal bars…Read more…
Workers at glass manufacturer Encirc Limited in Elton Cheshire have hailed victory in a dispute over pay. Unite’s 475 members voted by 78 per cent to accept the new two-year pay deal and, as a…Read more…
Refuse workers employed by Newham council, who could have lost more than £20,000 each since 2007 in a dispute over grading, will strike for nearly a fortnight, Unite said today (June 11). …Read more…
Unite has urged members who are also part of Labour to get involved with the party’s groundbreaking grassroots campaign in preparation for a general election. The Labour Roots project, which…Read more…
The Tories have broken a key manifesto pledge after the BBC announced on Tuesday (June 10) that free TV licences for over-75s would be scrapped. From June 2020, TV licences, which now cost…Read more…
UNISON always believed that the rules around NHS pay already allowed for overtime and working beyond the end of a shift to be taken into account when calculating holiday pay. This is a victory for…Read more…
Polly Toynbee cannot help caricaturing herself as the metropolitan snob whose disregard for life outside north London still leaves her, three years on, struggling to understand the 2016 referendum…Read more…
The FDA union’s Manifesto for Justice is a blueprint for reversing the damage that nine years of austerity have done to the UK criminal justice system.Read more…
Punishing Universal Credit claimants who don’t meet ‘in-work conditionality’ requirements risks pushing more people into poverty.Read more…
Mass in B Minor by JS Bach. 29 June 2019 at 7:30pmAll Saints Chorus takes on another big sing concert. Book now on Eventbrite.
Jon writes
“Bach’s Mass in b minor, one of the greatest works of choral music performed in the 1000-year-old setting of Al…Read more…