This afternoon I spoke at the virtual launch of the campaign to elect the Labour and Cooperative Party candidate, Lola Oyewusi, as the next Kent Police and Crime Commissioner in May 2021.
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“Owning the Future” Co-operative Party London Conference 23 January 2021
Dear John On the morning of Saturday 23rd January, the Co-operative Party is hosting a virtual regional conference with Party memb…Read more…
Labour, ‘gongs’ and the British Empire
Recently Shadow Cabinet Minister Kate Green was asked by Nick Robinson on his podcast whether she thought that honours should … MoreRead more…
Review: I am Pilgrim, by Terry Hayes
A young Saudi man, radicalised by the experience of seeing his father beheaded for his iconoclastic views, grows into the world’s most fearsome terrorist — known as Saracen. Deciding to take…Read more…
Standing for UNISON NEC Community Seats
Really pleased to announce that Denise and I are standing again to be re-elected to be UNISON National Executive Council members (UNISON’s Parliament for our 1.3 million members outside our annual conference) for the two Community Service Group s…Read more…
Review: SOE: An outline history of the Special Operations Executive 1940-46, by M.R.D. Foot
Few people knew as much about the highly-secretive SOE – whose task, according to Churchill, was to ‘set Europe ablaze’ – as M.R.D. Foot. This short book is an introduction to…Read more…
Education unions need answers from education secretary
Safety concerns for staff about increased pupil numbers
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‘I can’t afford to retire’ – why carers need a living wage
Three out of four care workers don’t earn the living wage. UNISON vice president Sian Stockham is one of them and she’s leading the national fight to raise carers’ pay
The article ‘I…Read more…
“Newham: Councillors rebel against Mayor over emission-based parking permit scheme”
More than half of the east London council’s dominant Labour group have taken a very public stand against the borough’s Labour Mayor
JOSHUA NEICHOThirty-two Newham councillors, more than half the total number, have signed an open letter calling on…Read more…
Collective bargaining promises in Brexit deal are nothing but hot air
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How the Brexit deal threatens your rights at work
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Carers need practical support more than applause
Applause and appreciation do not replace pay and practical support for our public service workers
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FTSE 100 chief executives ‘earn average salary within 3 days’
By 5.30pm today (Wednesday 6 January) the average FTSE 100 Chief Executive would have already earned more this year than the average annual salary of UK workers. They only had to work 34 hours to earn £31, 461 which is the average medium wage fo…Read more…
Workers Can’t Wait – Without Support, Millions Face Poverty
By Len McCluskey With poverty and unemployment skyrocketing before lockdown, the government must act urgently to avoid a disaster – and support millions of workers who are already on the breadline….Read more…
“Why we need you to stand as a Labour Councillor”
Why I would hope that candidates to be Councillors will also be “Labour and Co-operative” I am pleased that the Party is organising this training next week for members interested in standing in the local elections due to held in May 2021. &n…Read more…
UNISON urges employers to review staff safety due to new COVID variant
Union writes to Health and Safety Executive urging updated guidelines to protect workers in light of new variant of coronavirus
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‘Good news for members’
The merger, which won approval from both sets of shareholders yesterday (Monday January 4), will create the world’s fourth biggest carmaker. Vauxhall employs 3,000 staff in the UK.
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BTec exams must be cancelled now urges UNISON
Staff running these exams, many of them already at heightened risk, will be exposed to unnecessary additional danger
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Blog: Together we will get through this
The whole country is grateful for what you are doing despite severe restrictions across the UK.
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Library staff ‘scared and stressed’ about working through lockdown
UNISON calls for libraries to stay completely closed, to protect library workers and their families
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