The government’s plans are deeply unfair to key workers who’ve put themselves on the line throughout the pandemic. People we rely on everyday have been told to pay for a crisis they did not cause and…Read more…
The role model teaching assistant
UNISON celebrates the school support staff who go above and beyond to give our children the best possible education with our Stars in Our Schools campaign. Tina Kemp is one of them
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School catering staff win in the Wirral after UNISON pressure
Private company abandons plan to make staff redundant and will now access the government furlough scheme
The article School catering staff win in the Wirral after UNISON pressure first appeared on…Read more…
Stricter measures needed to combat Covid on construction sites
Unite is calling for the creation of separate site operating procedures to cover both indoor and outdoor construction work following revelations by Professor Calum Semple that confirm Unite’s belief…Read more…
Recruiting hard-to-engage workers on digital during Covid-19
TUC Digital Lab case study with BFAWU Coronavirus is changing how people work and how unions organise. Face to face contact in every sector is being reduced due to social distancing measures, more…Read more…
” Up with the houses and Down with the slums” – meeting to discuss forming a Newham Labour Housing Group Wed – 25.11.20 at 7pm
Check out this post and I have emailed an invite to many Newham activists but if you are a local Labour party supporter and are interested in attending then please email, message, Whatsapp or send via this blogs comments your contact details.
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PARTY POLITICAL COLOURS IN NORFOLK
PARTY COLOURS IN NORFOLKYou may think you know the colours used by political parties in the UK. However, it was not until recent times that colours were standardised. Quite often Cities, Towns and Counties had their own party coloursAs this repor…Read more…
Chicago Martyrs – Norwich 1887
On 11th November 1887, four of the Haymarket martyrs were executed in Chicago. They were anarchist labour organisers framed for a bombing by authorities because of their role in the fight for the 8-hour day. The holiday, International Workers Da…Read more…
School Meals – William Wilson MP 1906
School MealsWilliam Wilson, Labour MP for Westhoughton, Lancashire, Moved the Amendment to the Education Act to provide School Meals under the Education (Provision of Meals) Act 1906.We should also recognise the important role of Rachel & Mar…Read more…
Kett – Wymondham
“The headquarters of the present day Labour Movement in my town, faces that steeple on which William Kett was hanged, and we are continuing the fight that the Kett’s started so many centuries ago”Edwin GoochWymondham 1937
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The Labour Earl – The First Labour Peer 1919
The Labour Earl – The First Labour Peer2nd Earl of Kimberley – Lord John Wodehouse(10 December 1848 – 7 January 1932)Kimberley House near Wymondham”The Earl of Kimberley who has now definitely thrown his lot in withe the Labour Party””I cannot he…Read more…
THETFORD COMMONS PRESERVATION SOCIETY 1897
Sidney Dye MP – South West Norfolk MP
Sidney Dye MP (4 August 1900 – 9 December 1958) At 16 joined the National Union of Agricultural Workers, At 19 he was already secretary of Wells-next-the-Sea branch. 1919 he assisted the formation of Wells Labour Party. Attended Ruskin College …Read more…
Review: The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Crime Conspiracy & Cover-Up: A new investigation by Tim Tate and Brad Johnson
What I liked most about this book was that the authors raise questions without answering them. Instead of asserting, as so many books of this type do, that (fill in name here) conspired to kill…Read more…
“Building for the future after years of neglect” Newham Voices
Last month Aidan White from the new community newspaper “Newham Voices” interviewed me in my previous role on housing issues. Subscribe to Newham Voices for £5 per month via its website and you will get a free hard copy of the newspaper delivered…Read more…
Fund managers deny Pension Trustees & their members a voice says AMNT
Well done to the AMNT (Association of Member Nominated Trustees) for this excellent stance on the refusal of many pension fund managers to allow trustees and pensioners to hold them to account for the way they vote in company Annual General Meeti…Read more…
There’s too much lip service paid to tenant engagement
This is an article published in Inside Housing Tenants have to fight for the right to be consulted on a … MoreRead more…
‘Why is it that we pick the pockets of the least well paid?’
Unite has lambasted reports that the government is mulling over a public sector pay freeze in chancellor Rishi Sunak’s upcoming spending review on Wednesday (November 25). Listen to Unite…Read more…
‘Kick in the teeth’
Unite has slammed the government for considering a public sector pay freeze for 5.5m workers, after reports today (November 20) suggested that public sector workers excluding frontline NHS staff may…Read more…
‘Devastating news for E.ON workers’
The news that energy giant E.ON is to axe about 700 jobs over the next two years is ‘more grim news’ for the UK economy already battered by Covid-19, Unite said on Thursday (November 19). Unite has…Read more…