Please share and support this campaign by a local Newham head teacher. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/555718/signatures/new
Hat tip my Labour Councillor & trade union comrade Sasha Das Gupta. Read more…
Leicester SPS Technologies condemned over pay cut plans
Workers at aerospace parts firm SPS Technologies are being balloted for strike action over the company’s ‘opportunistic’ attempt to attack pay rates by as much as £3,000 a year, Unite said today…Read more…
‘Cast iron’ assurances call
Luxury car maker Aston Martin is being urged to provide cast iron guarantees that its factory at Gaydon in Warwickshire will remain the centre for the UK and world-wide manufacturing and production…Read more…
‘All about greed and not need’
Unite members employed at Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) will be on picket lines tomorrow (December 1) in the dispute over the savage wage cuts imposed on the workforce through a brutal fire and…Read more…
Heathrow boss clinches corona rogue crown
It’s been a bumper year for bad bosses but the corona rogue crown has to go to the CEO of Heathrow airport. John Holland-Kaye enjoys an eye-wateringly huge salary and benefits. …Read more…
‘Pay injustice row’
Deliveries to about 100 Sainsbury’s stores in London and the south east will be severely hit over the Christmas period as 12 drivers working for an outsourced firm stage six days of strikes over a…Read more…
Rewilding – “Green Corridors” Plan
Farmland covers 70% of the UK, yet only Iceland and the Netherlands have smaller percentage of forest coverage than the UK does – just 13% in the UK compared to 31% in France and 33% in Germany.
If we are going to seriously address the issues of clim…Read more…
Newham Annual Rough Sleeping Winter Street Count 2020
On Thursday evening at 11pm I went to Newham Council Dockside Building, to be briefed and then take part, in the annual survey of the number of people sleeping on our streets. This is a national survey that all councils are expected to carry out …Read more…
Country Standard – Editorial: Summer 2020 Edition
After ten years of Conservative Party rule, little has changed for the better for rural communities, in fact we challenge our readers to name any area where they have seen improvements.
Today, many small and upland farmers face bankruptcy, our town …Read more…
The Old English Goat has been labelled ‘critical’
The Old English Goat has been labelled ‘critical’ by campaigners who are working to save this ‘desperately rare’ historic native breed from disappearing.
With an estimated population of just 74 living adult females left, the breed will be placed into …Read more…
UNISON General Secretary election – it’s not over until the Returning Officer sings?
Friday was the closing date for receipt of ballots in the UNISON General Secretary election. This has certainly been an election unlike any other, having taken place during a global pandemic which has had dramatic implications for the functioning of ou…Read more…
Robert Walker – General Secretary – National Union of Agricultural Workers
BHP mine workers tell investors about their reality (and the “Shift of Death”)
As a Pension trustee I took part in this virtual round table. It is shocking how badly supposedly “blue chip” responsible international mining companies treat their workers (and the environment!). Setting up “dummy” companies to outsource staff in orde…Read more…
Robert Blatchford – Clarion Socialist Apple
CLARION APPLE
Robert Blatchford
A culinary apple.
Raised at Hunstanton in 1914 by nurseryman Frederick Chilvers by crossing the UK varieties Rev. W. Wilkes and Blenheim Orange.
Named after the Editor of ‘The Clarion’ newspaper, who also taught locally…Read more…
Louise Michel – Communard speak at Yarmouth 1891
Louise MichelLeader of the Communards Paris Commune 1871 spoke (in French) to a large audience at Great Yarmouth 27th September 1891Read more…
British Socialist & Co-operative Bakeries – Vooruit
Many early Independent Labour Parties (ILP) branches tried pioneering initiatives to help support their local communities at a time of great hunger and poverty.
Few, were more successful that that established by the Bermondsey ILP.
BERMONDSEY LABOUR C…Read more…
Frank Southgate – Progressive & Naturalist Painter
Frank Southgate RSA24th Sportsman Battalion Royal Fusiliers
Born Hunstanton Died France 23 February 1916 WW1Buried Lillers France Art Master at the progressive, socialist Ruskin School – Heacham Friend of Harry Lowerison – School Head & Cla…Read more…
Ruth Elliott
Women united to achieveRuth ElliottBy Richard RossWednesday 17 February 1999 04.10 GMTShare on LinkedInShare on Google+Shares0 Save for laterThere are still too few women in senior positions within the trade union movement. That there ar…Read more…
Norwich Industrial Outlook – 1894 Trades Union Congress – TUC Congress
Frank Joseph Delves Norwich & District Trades & Labour Council Address to Trades Union Congress held on Tuesday 4thSeptember 1894 at Norwich The unorganised district is the natural recruiting ground of the seater and tyrant . There…Read more…
Corporate control on the cheap?
A couple of years ago, I got into the guts of the Melrose Industries hostile takeover of GKN. This deal squeaked through, despite it being opposed by GKN employees.
The bit of it that particularly interested me was the role of hedge funds doing the mer…Read more…