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Following last weekends enjoyable walk to Valentines Park in Ilford, Gill and I decided to go in another direction to Victoria Park in Tower Hamlets.
We started off at the Memorial Recreation Park, E15 (the original home of West Ham FC?) t…Read more…
On Friday I started a 36 week “virtual” part time Level 2 course on Employment law arranged by the TUC and taught by tutors from CONEL college.
It is mostly “self directed” study with monthly “face to face” group meetings and some 121 tut…Read more…
September .1944 THE LAND WORKER
Journal National Agricultural Workers Union
Wilfred Willett
Workers Music Association
Rural Folk Songs
National Asylum Workers Union established 1910
(Later COHSE now Unison)
Mr. G. E Hopton attended the first annual conference in Birmingham in July 1911
G.A Yates (Norfolk Asylum) NAWU National Executive Committee member 1911
December 1911 the Nor…Read more…
Check out release by “Newham voting for Change” that the Courts have confirmed today that there will be choice in the referendum in May between the current all powerful Newham Council Executive Mayor and the more open and democratic Committee mod…Read more…
Merseyside glassmakers employed by Pilkington are being balloted for strike action over the company’s failure to deliver a promised 2.5 per cent pay rise, Unite said today (January 29). More than 100…Read more…
Security staff at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, locked in a ‘David and Goliath’ pay battle with their employer, will be staging a third wave of strikes into early March. The 20 security…Read more…
Unite has warned that forcing construction workers in London onto bikes is potentially dangerous. Unite issued its warning after Transport for London (TfL) issued travel advice for construction…Read more…
Christina McAnea has written to the defence secretary seeking urgent response
The article UNISON raises COVID-19 concerns for members at army college first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Yesterday it was good to meet up “virtually” with Sadiq and 7 London Labour Assembly candidates for a UNISON Labour Link sponsored virtual phone bank.
In the briefing by Sadiq to us beforehand, it just reinforced to me, exactly why we need…Read more…
UK car production last year plummeted by almost a third to fewer than one million cars, the biggest slump since 1984. New car industry figures highlight the massive toll the coronavirus pandemic has…Read more…
Unite, which represents thousands of workers in the hospitality and hotel sector, is warning that the government’s plans to introduce quarantine hotels must not risk the health of the workers in…Read more…
Strike action by Babcock Aerospace workers at RAF Leeming, near Northallerton in North Yorkshire, over a £5,000 pay disparity will continue until the end of February, Unite said today (January 28)….Read more…
Following pressure from Labour and trade unions, the government has taken yet another screeching U-turn after axing a review of EU-derived workers’ rights. Earlier this month, the Financial Times…Read more…
Some are traumatised from seeing patients die before their time
The article Covid pressures triggering mental health issues among health staff first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
This morning I attended Newham Council’s virtual event to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. There was a very moving testimony by Holocaust survivors, Ann and Bob Kirk BEM. They described their separate childhood experiences of the pre war Nazi terror on Jew…Read more…
Unite announced today (January 27) that British Airways cargo strikes had been called off after a deal had been struck, pending members’ vote. Unite assistant general secretary Howard Beckett…Read more…