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Essex Way (and a Badger)

May 31, 2020By John's Labour blog

Off message. A glorious circular walk today, firstly along the Essex Way then self guided way back to starting point at Millers Green, Ongar. The weather was warm and sunny but with a lovely breeze.

On way back we saw a young badger running up a ditch…Read more…

May 31, 2020John's Labour blog

Review: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, by Charlie Mackesy

May 31, 2020By Eric Lee

OK, I’ll confess: I don’t get it. The illustrations are lovely. The message is nice. It might work as children’s book, but for adults? I’m not so sure. And yet the book is…Read more…

May 31, 2020Eric Lee

Review: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, by Charlie Mackesy

May 31, 2020By Eric Lee

OK, I’ll confess: I don’t get it. The illustrations are lovely. The message is nice. It might work as children’s book, but for adults? I’m not so sure. And yet the book is…Read more…

May 31, 2020Eric Lee

Murdoch closes regional and local titles – Microsoft replaces journalists with robots.

May 31, 2020By Power In A Union

The mantra that post Covid19 “the world will never be the same again” has been repeated a million times. This last week we saw the effects, not just of the virus pandemic but a move away…Read more…

May 31, 2020Power In A Union

Midnight Cowboy

May 30, 2020By John's Labour blog

Off message but “lock down” for me has meant more time for watching classic films on Netflix.

Last week I watched film noir thriller “Vertigo” directed by Hitchcock, which I think I have seen before but no idea when.

Tonight I watched “Midnight …Read more…

May 30, 2020John's Labour blog

No return to austerity – cancel local authority debt

May 30, 2020By Martin Wicks

A campaign initiated by the Labour Campaign for Council Housing calls for the government to cancel local authority debt held … MoreRead more…

May 30, 2020Martin Wicks

50th Anniversary of Equal Pay with Angela Rayner MP & Deputy Leader of the Labour Party

May 29, 2020By John's Labour blog

Hat tip Labour Unions “The Equal Pay Act was fought for and won by women organising through their unions & a Labour Government taking action, but 50 years on we still don’t have equal pay. We shouldn’t have to wait another 50 years.That’s why women…Read more…

May 29, 2020John's Labour blog

Chancellor announces changes to furlough scheme

May 29, 2020By UNITElive

Responding to the chancellor’s changes to the Job Retention Scheme (JRS) announced today, the leader of the country’s most influential union, Unite, said that he was pleased that unions…Read more…

May 29, 2020UNITElive

When

May 29, 2020By UNITElive

Do you remember when

the phone plugged into the wall

had its own table in the hall?

The post When appeared first on UNITElive.org.Read more…

May 29, 2020UNITElive

Heroes and zeroes

May 29, 2020By UNITElive

Each Friday on UniteLIVE, we bring you all the latest heroes and zeroes amid the coronavirus pandemic. Despite the devastating crisis we’ve been thrust into, countless people have managed to…Read more…

May 29, 2020UNITElive

Lighthouse Financial Advice During Coronavirus

May 29, 2020By City of Stoke on Trent UNISON

Lighthouse Financial Advice is still offering financial advice to members. Telephone and webinars are available – Lighthouse – Financial Advice During CoronavirusRead more…

May 29, 2020City of Stoke on Trent UNISON

Now it is time to fight for jobs

May 29, 2020By UNITElive

People and markets make the decisions and what actually moves them must be our focus, otherwise we will be left bitterly disappointed. We must remember that tactics without strategy is often the…Read more…

May 29, 2020UNITElive

British car production plummets

May 29, 2020By UNITElive

British car manufacturing has taken a massive hit amid the coronavirus epidemic, after new figures reveal that in April, production figures plummeted by 99.7 per cent. The latest data represents the…Read more…

May 29, 2020UNITElive

Angela Rayner chats to UNISON carers

May 29, 2020By Dave Prentis blog

This week, the deputy leader of the Labour Party sat down to listen to care workers about their working conditions and concerns

The article Angela Rayner chats to UNISON carers first appeared on the…Read more…

May 29, 2020Dave Prentis blog

BA betrayal: customers and partners alerted 

May 29, 2020By UNITElive

This week campaigners have been alerting companies including HCL in Surrey, Barclays in Glasgow, Vodafone in Newbury, Microsoft, in Reading, GSK in Ulverston and Publicis in London, about BA’s…Read more…

May 29, 2020UNITElive

Union legend Sarah Chapman’s grave under threat

May 29, 2020By UNITElive

But such a vital piece of trade union history could be erased to posterity after it has emerged that Sarah Chapman’s grave is now under threat. The Manor Park Cemetery in Newham, London, home to…Read more…

May 29, 2020UNITElive

London bus workers’ safety ‘absolutely crucial’

May 29, 2020By UNITElive

Bus workers are among those who have lost their lives in the coronavirus pandemic at the highest rates –a total of 33 bus workers in London alone have succumbed to the virus since the pandemic began….Read more…

May 29, 2020UNITElive

‘For the nation’s benefit’ 

May 29, 2020By UNITElive

More than two months on from the promised but yet to emerge government support for the UK’s beleaguered aviation industry, Unite is warning that without urgent action regional economies will take a…Read more…

May 29, 2020UNITElive

Review: If It Bleeds, by Stephen King

May 29, 2020By Eric Lee

Stephen King is a master storyteller. He’s often classed as writer of horror, but as one who generally doesn’t read horror, I think that’s not entirely accurate. In this collection…Read more…

May 29, 2020Eric Lee

Review: If It Bleeds, by Stephen King

May 29, 2020By Eric Lee

Stephen King is a master storyteller. He’s often classed as writer of horror, but as one who generally doesn’t read horror, I think that’s not entirely accurate. In this collection…Read more…

May 29, 2020Eric Lee
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