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Your November Citizens’ Assemblies
Join us to have your say on local priorities. The second round of Citizens’ Assemblies will run throughout November and build on the findings from the first round that took place in September. Through the first…Read more…
I was at a Newham Pension training last night and was shocked to hear of the death of Cllr Ian Greenwood.
I have known Ian for many years and he was a superb chair and Pension activist. A true friend as well of the trade union movement both here and ab…Read more…
On Sunday I represented the Mayor and Newham Council at the 1918-2018 Remembrance Ceremony at West Ham Parish Church All Saints with Chair of Council Cllr Joy Laguda and our Director of Finance, Michael O’Donnell. With our local MP Lyn Brown, we each l…Read more…
“Our members at Ladywood Primary School in Grimethorpe, Barnsley, are in dispute with their employer over proposals to make 9 School Meals Supervisory Assistants (lunchtime supervisors) redundant.
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Our local Labour headquarters since the 1970s has been sold to a developer who is going to build a high rise block on the site.
It used to be a newsagents and a “fish n chips” shop in the past.
The national Labour Party has a large capital sum and we…Read more…
On Friday afternoon I went to pay my respects at Paul’s funeral at Manor Park crematorium.
Paul was a Forest Gate North and West Ham Labour activist who also lived round the corner to me.
A lovely non religious service for a life long socia…Read more…
Picture collage from a visit on Friday with Cllr Joshua Garfield, Newham Council Pension officer and our Canadian fund managers, Fiera Infrastructure (top left) to the Cory Riverside “energy from waste” plant in Belvedere, Bexley, Kent.
New…Read more…
Councillor Report to Ward As 8 Nov 2018 WEST HAM WARD LABOUR PARTY
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Ward issues
· On 4 October after my surgery I attended a meeting of…Read more…
“UNISON is marking becoming the UK’s biggest union by launching a month of recruitment activity today to reach out to every worker in the country providing public services.The union has now more than 1.3 million people in its membership who work in edu…Read more…
Today is the 101st anniversary of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution. Who knew? and it is Trotsky’s birthday as well. Today I attended a Newham Council Audit meeting and 3 people present out of 15 or so also had their birthdays today. Spooky or what?
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“Residents are invited to join Mayor of Newham Rokhsana Fiaz and the Royal British Legion at remembrance services to commemorate those who have lost their lives while serving their country.
Services are taking place across the borough and will …Read more…
I was really pleased tonight to be a guest at the Darul Jannah community centre in my ward, alongside Cllr John Whitworth, Cllr Anam Islam and Cllr Shaban Mohammed as well as local Police and other community activists.
The centre has been open for 2 y…Read more…
Picture collage from recent visits, talks and walkabouts I have been on as Newham Housing lead with local residents, Council Officers and local Councillors.
While visiting our housing estates and meeting residents I have found lots of things that we n…Read more…
Life long anti-fascist and former “Red Stepney” Councillor for 15 years, Max Levitas, has passed away aged 103. I first met Max many years ago when he was probably in his late 80s and he addressed a meeting of Tower Hamlets residents opposed to the sto…Read more…
Boleyn (Newham) result: LAB: 74.8% (+4.3) CON: 14.2% (-4.4) GRN: 7.5% (-3.4) LDEM: 3.6% (+3.6) Labour HOLD.
Well done. Moniba Khan (right of picture next to our Mayor, Rokhsana Fiaz) is elected as a Labour Councillor in a by-election last night.
Th…Read more…
This is from a hard hitting report by the Child Poverty Action Group. 37% of children in London (700,000 kids) live in poverty. It is projected to rise 2019-2021 to 41.5%. What a shameful statistic for one of the richest cities in the world. 2/3rds of …Read more…
“There’s a lot of talk about Tory austerity. But what is it? Let’s break it down, brick by brick”.
Off message: Gill and I went for this fantastic 8 mile autumnal walk last Sunday in the Chilterns. The weather was incredibly warm and sunny for the time of year. Many trees were still remarkably green which I put down to the unusual hot summer we have…Read more…
“I’m at least the fourth generation of my family to be a Trade Unionist – back to the blacklisted docker and the miner on strike for the minimum wage in 1912.
Trade Unions are the core of the Labour Movement. I am so humbled by @unisontweets endorseme…Read more…
Off message. There has been some spectacular dawns and sunsets this month. This is view from the Cabinet workstations on the 4th floor, Newham Council Dockside, E16 on 6.12pm, October 5 (Google stylised photo but it was stunning at the time) Read more…