A heart-breaking picture of 4-year-old Jack Williment-Barr sleeping under coats on a hospital floor waiting hours to be seen was published on Monday (December 9), has gone viral and made headlines in…Read more…
Social care record condemned
Seminar hears that government has been in office for almost 10 years, yet has not even produced a green paper on social care
The article Social care record condemned first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
Tackling Rough Sleeping at Newham Stepping Stones
Today I went on a visit with Cllr Zulfiqar Ali and Cllr Shaban Mohammed to our newly opened Newham temporary assessment centre for Rough Sleepers. The centre is called “Stepping Stones” and is staffed 24/7 and can house up to 20 people and another 5 wh…Read more…
‘Corridor care’ crisis
As hospital wait times soar to record levels, four-year-old Jack, pictured in newspapers lying on a hospital floor suffering from suspected pneumonia, has revealed the agonising human cost of an NHS…Read more…
Health staff and patients are being fleeced with parking fees
Huge parking fees aren’t the solution to hospital funding shortfalls
The article Health staff and patients are being fleeced with parking fees first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Labour is on the side of the tenants: Tories are on the side of BAD LANDLORDS
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Labour Will Be On The Side Of Workers – Laura Pidcock MP
By Laura Pidcock Shadow Secretary of State for Employment Rights “So many people’s working lives are dominated by low pay, insecurity and powerlessness. It is a sign of this broken system that many…Read more…
Chipping Barnet East End team
Today I went with on a canvass team for Labour Candidate, Emma Whysall, in Chipping Barnet. Newham Mayor, Rokhsana Fiaz also joined board Leader, Graham Taylor, who is the Parliamentary agent from Bethnal Green & Poplar. I have known Graham for man…Read more…
Shorting and voting
As some people will be aware, I’ve been looking into changes in voting turnout at companies in trouble. Short version: turnout has fallen at several such companies, in some cases significantly. Why this might be is another question. Since several of th…Read more…
“The scariest kind of operation? One that’s cancelled” Your vote can save the NHS
Speaking at Trades Council Rally Against Cuts
This afternoon I was invited by Redbridge Trades Council to speak at their rally outside the Town Hall in Ilford against public service cuts & in support of postal workers.
As Chair of London UNISON Labour Link (our union Labour Party supporting p…Read more…
Newham & Sadiq supporting Jon Cruddas as Labour Candidate for Dagenham & Rainham
Today I was with Newham Mayor, Rokhsana Fiaz & comrades from East & West Ham (and other parts of London) to support Jon Cruddas, Labour Candidate in Dagenham & Rainham. London Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, was also there.
After the obligatory …Read more…
Swindon as dormitory town?
According to government statistics not a single ‘social rent’ home was added to Swindon’s housing stock over the last five … MoreRead more…
What has austerity meant for Wales?
Austerity is mentioned all the time in election coverage, but what’s been the impact on Wales?Read more…
Two things the IFS overlooked about nationalisation
The IFS have crunched the numbers on Labour’s plans for nationalisation. But they have overlooked some key facts about how privatised industries work.Read more…
Unions have the power to combat racism in the workplace
Hate crime and far-right activity is on the rise, but trade unions play a pivotal role in challenging it.Read more…
Record wealth inequality shows why our economy is rigged against working people
TUC analysis on how much UK households own has exposed the huge wealth gap between those at the top and everyone else.Read more…
Why are we waiting? Your vote can save our NHS
Thanks to the Conservatives, seeing your GP can feel like mission impossible. They are destroying our NHS. Your vote can save it. Find out more at
unsn.uk/NoMoreWait #YourVoteCan
The average wait for a GP appointment is now the longest it’s ever been…Read more…
Whirlpool strike off
Strike action at Whirlpool’s Bristol tumble dryer factory has been called off after the company agreed to pay workers at least £10 an hour and offer long serving agency workers jobs, Unite said today…Read more…
‘Scrooge’ Serco
Unite has vowed to leave ‘no stone’ unturned in its defence of members employed by outsourcing giant Serco, on the Ealing council parking contract, who face losing their jobs early in the new year….Read more…