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Happy New Year / Blwyddyn Newydd Dda: Despite Covid, Brexit & Boris – Let’s raise a toast to a better 2021

Dec 31, 2020By John's Labour blog

Photo from the Fyfield village bridge across the River Roding overlooking the 13th Century Mill pond. 

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Dec 31, 2020John's Labour blog

New Year’s Dishonour

Dec 31, 2020By Jon's union blog

It being New Year’s Eve I am intending to attend the Labour Grassroots online party in order to look back at one very minor aspect of the awful year now passing, associated with one rather minor petty bureaucrat who brought a little tedium and, in some…Read more…

Dec 31, 2020Jon's union blog

NHS employers must “dig deep” to avoid spiral of exhaustion for health workers

Dec 31, 2020By Dave Prentis blog

Staff must not be left to burn out

The article NHS employers must “dig deep” to avoid spiral of exhaustion for health workers first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…

Dec 31, 2020Dave Prentis blog

Video of the year – Durham Miners’ Gala

Dec 31, 2020By UNITElive

Every day on UniteLIVE during the festive period, we highlight our videos of the year. Today, we feature a film from July, when we heard from Unite general secretary Len McCluskey about the Durham…Read more…

Dec 31, 2020UNITElive

Heroes and zeroes of the year

Dec 31, 2020By UNITElive

Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, UniteLIVE has regularly highlighted the ‘heroes and zeroes’ of this crisis. Today we present you the top heroes of the year, alongside the worst zeroes, in no…Read more…

Dec 31, 2020UNITElive

A time like no other, a union like no other

Dec 31, 2020By UNITElive

It has been a year like no other. From the moment the coronavirus hit our shores, this union was on the front foot. Unite was always going to have to go into hand-to-hand battle against this…Read more…

Dec 31, 2020UNITElive

Lola 4 Kent PCC

Dec 30, 2020By John's Labour blog

My branch UNISON member, Lola Oyewusi, is standing for election as the Labour & Co-operative candidate to be the next Kent Police Crime Commissioner. Her campaign launch is on Sunday 10 January 2020. 
 
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Dec 30, 2020John's Labour blog

Reopening delay is sensible to make school mass testing work, says UNISON

Dec 30, 2020By Dave Prentis blog

Primary opening should also be held back

The article Reopening delay is sensible to make school mass testing work, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…

Dec 30, 2020Dave Prentis blog

Pte: EDGAR JOHN MARKILLIE – 7th FIELD AMBULANCE – KIA GALLOPILI 1915

Dec 30, 2020By COHSE

PRIVATE EDGAR JOHN MARKILLIE
Service Number 944 Australian Infantry A.I.F 13th Battalion Killed in Action9 August 1915
 Age 24 years Son of John Adam & Frances Julia Markillie 110 Dalmeny Avenue, Norbury 
Buried 7th FIELD AMBULANCE C…Read more…

Dec 30, 2020COHSE

Oxford vaccine approval is welcome news, says UNISON

Dec 30, 2020By Dave Prentis blog

Approval will allow priority for NHS and care staff

The article Oxford vaccine approval is welcome news, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…

Dec 30, 2020Dave Prentis blog

Video of the year – Our proud rural history

Dec 30, 2020By UNITElive

Every day on UniteLIVE during the festive period, we highlight our videos of the year. Today, we feature a film from July, where Unite general secretary Len McCluskey sends a message about…Read more…

Dec 30, 2020UNITElive

Health warning – crony-virus goes pandemic

Dec 30, 2020By UNITElive

This week, on the first anniversary of the UK’s first lockdown, UNITElive is featuring some of the top stories we have covered on the pandemic and our members’ contributions, concerns and…Read more…

Dec 30, 2020UNITElive

Cycling to Cutty Sark

Dec 29, 2020By John's Labour blog

 Off message. I decided to try and ditch my “fair weather only” cycling reputation by biking in the winter gloom and cold to the Cutty Sark in Greenwich. My favourite route to the south of the borough is via West Ham Park and the Greenway. Across …Read more…

Dec 29, 2020John's Labour blog

Campaign for Zero Covid in the New Year?

Dec 29, 2020By Jon's union blog

Your humble blogger has added my name – for what it’s worth – to the campaign for Zero covid. Labour movement activists cannot remain simple spectators as we head towards the second year of a global pandemic which has cost tens of thousands of lives an…Read more…

Dec 29, 2020Jon's union blog

Video of the year – solidarity for Heathrow workers from India

Dec 29, 2020By UNITElive

Every day on UniteLIVE during the festive period, we highlight our videos of the year. Today, we feature a special message of solidarity from the Maritime Union of India for striking Heathrow Airport…Read more…

Dec 29, 2020UNITElive

Can the government get Britain moving again?

Dec 29, 2020By UNITElive

Residents of Kent well remember when the Garden of England became the Toilet of England in the summer of 2015 after the migrant crisis and French labour disputes shut down the Dover-Calais border. At…Read more…

Dec 29, 2020UNITElive

So why is there 104,000 vacancies in the Care Sector?

Dec 28, 2020By John's Labour blog

 
On BBC News this evening there was a report on the 104,000 vacancies in the UK care sector.  There are justifiable worries that Brexit restrictions on low paid migrants will make this problem much worse. A owner of a care home was interview…Read more…

Dec 28, 2020John's Labour blog

ETUC On EU-UK Brexit Agreement

Dec 28, 2020By Power In A Union

The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) believes there is no Brexit that will benefit working people. In the circumstances, we welcome the European Union’s efforts to stop no-deal, guarantee…Read more…

Dec 28, 2020Power In A Union

Review: The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”: The CIA and Mind Control: The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences, by John Marks

Dec 28, 2020By Eric Lee

First published more than 40 years ago, this book tells the unbelievable story of the CIA’s experiments with mind control. Some of these even pre-date the founding of the CIA itself. Its…Read more…

Dec 28, 2020Eric Lee

UK-EU Brexit Agreement: “A Thin Deal” Says David Bailey

Dec 28, 2020By Power In A Union

Blog by Professor David Bailey Birmingham Business School  That a trade deal has been at been agreed at the last minute between the UK and EU comes as a huge relief for manufacturing sectors like…Read more…

Dec 28, 2020Power In A Union
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