Hat tip Newham History Facebook. Post by Newham Heritage. “We’d love to see you at Stratford Library for an Inspiration Day on Saturday 2 December, where some of the photos, objects, maps and more of Newham over the centuries will be on disp…Read more…
Capital Ring Walk 1: Woolwich to Falconwood
A few years ago Gill and I went on a series of linear walks around our city called the London Loop. This was in 24 sections and just under 150 miles. It was really great fun and we went to beautiful and historic parts of London that we had never …Read more…
Plaistow North By Election Polling Day (& speaking at Pension conference)
I took yesterday off work for the by election but got tied up in morning with urgent UNISON “fire and rehire” case work. I was able at lunch time to go “knocking up” (knocking on doors of identified Labour Supporters , reminding them of the election an…Read more…
Connecting communities through steel
A quiet November Saturday afternoon in Sheffield. The steel-grey sky hangs heavy over the Sheffield United FC club house on Bramall Lane, home to the famed local team, the ‘Blades’.
A line forms outside the building. Men, women, children, jostle for position. The crowd is excited, the mood is good. Nothing unusual here you may think. But the Blades aren’t playing at home today. The crowd has not come for football. So why are they here?
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Jenrick plan to cap migrant workers would collapse care system, says UNISON
Instead of seeking solutions to serious problems, ministers are demonising migrant workers and seeking scapegoats
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Jenrick plan to cap migrant workers would collapse care system, says UNISON
Instead of seeking solutions to serious problems, ministers are demonising migrant workers and seeking scapegoats
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Cash-strapped school support staff are paying for pupils’ essentials
Dedicated staff using food banks and cutting back on heating to cope in cost-of-living crisis
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Cash-strapped school support staff are paying for pupils’ essentials
Dedicated staff using food banks and cutting back on heating to cope in cost-of-living crisis
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Stars in Our Schools goes to Parliament
School support staff had the opportunity to share their experiences with politicians
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Stars in Our Schools goes to Parliament
School support staff had the opportunity to share their experiences with politicians
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Christina McAnea urges chancellor to make ‘real and positive change’ for disabled workers
‘Threatening benefit cuts or accusing disabled people of “not doing their duty” achieves nothing,’ writes UNISON general secretary
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Christina McAnea urges chancellor to make ‘real and positive change’ for disabled workers
‘Threatening benefit cuts or accusing disabled people of “not doing their duty” achieves nothing,’ writes UNISON general secretary
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The OBR’s evidence is clear: the Autumn Statement has done nothing to end the living standards and growth crises
As a result of the autumn statement, our real pay crisis is intensified and now expected to last 20 years. Politically charged National Insurance cut makes the smallest dent in the worse squeeze on household incomes since the 1950s, and while the Chanc…Read more…
Why we need workers and their unions to lead the climate debate
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The government’s latest pensions gimmick is a dangerous distraction
The headline pension announcement in today’s Autumn Statement – that the government is exploring a ‘lifetime provider model’ to allow workers to choose their pension scheme instead of their employer – is a gimmick.
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Eve of Poll Canvass: Plaistow North By election
Picture of activists meeting up before evening canvass. By election takes place tomorrow. If you can help at all please register https://events.labour.org.uk/event/396117Plaistow North is normally a secure Labour seat but there has been a tremendo…Read more…
‘Failure for workers’
Calling it an ‘abject failure for workers’, a ‘missed golden opportunity to tackle the issues threatening jobs and livelihoods,’ and ‘leaving consumers at the sharp end of the economy’, you could tell that Unite was left far from impressed by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement, delivered this afternoon (November 22).
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Transgender day of remembrance 2023
On Trans Day of Remembrance 2023, remember that we’re only human. Your friends, your siblings. Your children, your partners or your parents.Read more…
P&O and Freedom of Association: Memo to Starmer
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‘It shouldn’t be like this’
Unite members in Deeside, North Wales, employed by DE&S DECA, formerly known as the Defence Electronics and Components Agency, are currently out on strike in a dispute over pay.
Following over a decade of extremely low pay increases, workers voted overwhelmingly to support strike action and began a series of 24 hour strikes in October 2023.
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