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West Ham to Victoria Park via Olympic Park circular lockdown walk

Jan 31, 2021By John's Labour blog

 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…

Jan 31, 2021John's Labour blog

TUC Diploma in Employment Law: Day 1

Jan 30, 2021By John's Labour blog

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…

Jan 30, 2021John's Labour blog

English Rural Songs – Wilfred Willett’s September 1944

Jan 30, 2021By Country Standard

 

September .1944 THE LAND WORKER 
Journal National Agricultural Workers Union 
Wilfred Willett
Workers Music Association
Rural Folk Songs

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Jan 30, 2021Country Standard

Norfolk Mental Hospital – National Asylum Workers Union

Jan 30, 2021By COHSE

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…

Jan 30, 2021COHSE

Game on: Court confirms choice for Newham in May: “It is between a more open and democratic system & status quo”

Jan 29, 2021By John's Labour blog

 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…

Jan 29, 2021John's Labour blog

Pay promise broken

Jan 29, 2021By UNITElive

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…

Jan 29, 2021UNITElive

Security guards in ‘David and Goliath’ pay battle

Jan 29, 2021By UNITElive

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…

Jan 29, 2021UNITElive

‘Recipe for tragedy’

Jan 29, 2021By UNITElive

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…

Jan 29, 2021UNITElive

UNISON raises COVID-19 concerns for members at army college

Jan 29, 2021By Dave Prentis blog

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…

Jan 29, 2021Dave Prentis blog

Greater London UNISON Labour Link telephone bank for Sadiq Khan as Mayor

Jan 28, 2021By John's Labour blog

 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…

Jan 28, 2021John's Labour blog

Latest UK car production figures ‘worst in a generation’

Jan 28, 2021By UNITElive

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…

Jan 28, 2021UNITElive

Quarantine hotels must be Covid-secure

Jan 28, 2021By UNITElive

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…

Jan 28, 2021UNITElive

Fresh Babcock strikes at RAF Leeming

Jan 28, 2021By UNITElive

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…

Jan 28, 2021UNITElive

Government ditches workers’ rights review

Jan 28, 2021By UNITElive

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…

Jan 28, 2021UNITElive

Park Royal Vehicles – Acton – Shop Stewards Committee – Banner 1971

Jan 28, 2021By Hayes People's History

Jan 28, 2021Hayes People's History

George Lansbury Lido – LCC – Hyde Park

Jan 28, 2021By Hayes People's History

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Jan 28, 2021Hayes People's History

Covid pressures triggering mental health issues among health staff

Jan 28, 2021By Dave Prentis blog

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…

Jan 28, 2021Dave Prentis blog

Holocaust Memorial Day 2021: Be the light in the darkness

Jan 27, 2021By John's Labour blog

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…

Jan 27, 2021John's Labour blog

Norwich Hands Off Russia 1919

Jan 27, 2021By Country Standard

 

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Jan 27, 2021Country Standard

‘Incredible achievement’

Jan 27, 2021By UNITElive

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…

Jan 27, 2021UNITElive
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