You cannot praise public service workers for keeping our communities going… while simultaneously expecting the same people to survive on poverty pay
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Branch resources review – where we are so far
The review is making ‘good progress’ with a branch survey and in-depth research
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‘We’ve been left with no alternative’
Workers at Rolls-Royce Barnoldswick took their first day of strike action on Friday (November 6). The Unite members are protesting plans by the company, announced in August, to cut 350 jobs at the…Read more…
Last chance to add your voice and help support public services
Time is running out to add your signature to our letter to the Prime Minister and Chancellor – and make sure the government invests in public services
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COVID reverses progress on financial equality
“When the country starts to count the cost of the pandemic, we can’t allow the burden to fall on women – again”
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‘People are dying’ – how the Home Office is risking lives in the NHS
Even with massive NHS staff shortages, healthcare workers like Arun Kumar have been forced to return to their home countries during the pandemic instead of saving lives
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Care staff deserve equal pay with the NHS
Reform of the care sector is long overdue
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Living wage increase leaves many thousands of health and care staff behind
Ministers must give a well-earned pay rise to all those caring for us
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Government must grant NHS staff a wage rise by Christmas, say health unions
Increase needed to show ministers value staff
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Remembrance Sunday – Remembering the Fallen and the Claxton Family
This morning at 11am I was at East London Cemetery with my West Ham ward colleague, Cllr John Whitworth, to lay a wreath to remember the fallen.
Usually we would have attended the Remembrance Day Service at the West Ham All Saints Ch…Read more…
Trump is Going! Best Birthday Present Ever!
I would like to thank the people of America for giving me today the best birthday pressie ever!
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Mor Garw/ Stormy Sea by Kyffin Williams
Mor Garw/ Stormy Sea by Kyffin WilliamsAnother print from a calendar published by National Library of Wales featuring the works of Welsh Artist, Kyffin Williams.I have been posting the paintings each month. This is Tachwedd November 2020. #GreatN…Read more…
‘Using Covid-19 as a cloak to justify jobs’ cull’
The closure of the Alexander Dennis (ADL) plant in Guildford this week after 125 years of vehicle building with the loss of 200 jobs was ‘cynically fast tracked’ using the global pandemic as an…Read more…
Spycops latest
In his opening statements, made today (November 6) on behalf of trade unions represented at the Undercover Policing Inquiry chaired by Judge Mittings, Lord John Hendy QC has revealed that undercover…Read more…
‘Bringing both sides of the community together’
Covid is a cruel virus scarring us mentally as well as physically – raising anxiety, fears. Keeping families apart, making those happily living alone, lonely. But outside of the unreal TV-land…Read more…
Solidarity statement from the TUC to the AFL-CIO (US elections)
We stand in solidarity with our sisters and brothers at the AFL-CIO, who have worked tirelessly during the USA’s 2020 elections to support the democratic rights of working people across the country,…Read more…
Fat cats cashing in on Covid
While the pandemic has claimed tens of thousands of lives and destroyed the livelihoods of many thousands more, some large companies have cashed in on a Covid-19 business bonanza. Still, these fat…Read more…
‘A deep and damaging recession looms’
Today Friday November 6, alongside our Scottish regional secretary Pat Rafferty, I am co-hosting the latest in a series of regional meetings to discuss Unite’s Manufacturing Matters industrial…Read more…
ROGUE LANDLORDS – How to Protect Tenants and Raise Standards (Labour Housing Group Newsletter Nov 20)
“Newham has one of the most extensive,longest running and most effective landlordlicensing schemes in the country. It was set up in 2013 and renewed for another 5 years in 2018. At one stage Newham was prosecuting more criminal landlords that th…Read more…
Halt Rolls-Royce job losses call
Rolls-Royce was urged this evening (November 5) to make full use of the chancellor’s extension of the furlough scheme until the end of March to safeguard jobs at what is one of the jewels of British…Read more…