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Get help to keep warm: Up to £200 winter fuel grant for low income UNISON members

Jan 20, 2021By John's Labour blog

Heads up! Pass the word

“The There for You Winter Fuel Grant programme for 2021 opens on Monday 25 January. For this year only, grants of up to £200 will be available to help UNISON members with fuel bills this winter.

Members whose income is less th…Read more…

Jan 20, 2021John's Labour blog

How the Vaccine Process Works in Newham

Jan 19, 2021By John's Labour blog

 Hat tip Newham health champions. 
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Jan 19, 2021John's Labour blog

Newham Voting for Change – Let us really Trigger our Democracy

Jan 18, 2021By John's Labour blog

 There was a positive and also constructive meeting tonight on how to support the committee governance model and get rid of the Executive Mayor system in the forthcoming Newham Council democracy referendum in May. Check out and support “Newham for…Read more…

Jan 18, 2021John's Labour blog

Scrap Unfair Visa Fees for Armed Forces Commonwealth troops

Jan 17, 2021By John's Labour blog

 
Stephen Morgan MP

“Those from the Commonwealth, who serve in our Armed Forces, risk their lives to keep us safe but face huge fees when applying for their citizenship. Labour is rightly calling for these fees to be scrapped.

John Healey MP an…Read more…

Jan 17, 2021John's Labour blog

Love Unions 8-14 February 2021

Jan 16, 2021By John's Labour blog

 
Today I attended the TUC London, East & South East (LESE) Regional Council meeting as a UNISON delegate.  LESE is the largest of the TUC’s six English regions and covers three of the former government regions: London, the South East, an…Read more…

Jan 16, 2021John's Labour blog

Montrose Turns 60

Jan 15, 2021By John's Labour blog

Happy birthday to my Tower Hamlets UNISON Housing and Labour Party comrade (and old friend) Montrose Matty on his 60th birthday. 
We have just finished a virtual beer and curry with various mates and his family and look forward to meeting up in th…Read more…

Jan 15, 2021John's Labour blog

Keir Hardie MP Labour Party membership card 1895 (& modern version)

Jan 14, 2021By John's Labour blog

Yesterday was the 128 anniversary of the birth of the Independent Labour Party (forerunner of the Labour Party). Hat tip Ali G & the Keir Hardie Society.

By coincidence I was sent the above picture of the ILP membership card issued to Keir Hardie…Read more…

Jan 14, 2021John's Labour blog

Save Our Libraries! Tower Hamlets Joint Trade Unions

Jan 13, 2021By John's Labour blog

 I have been asked to attend this event next Tuesday. I have clash but will see if I can attend. When I was the assistant branch secretary for Tower Hamlets UNISON, I was the lead negotiator on the introduction of Idea Stores. 

Tory Austerit…Read more…

Jan 13, 2021John's Labour blog

‘Race to the bottom’ and ‘unwelcomed trade-off’: Investors don’t buy UK’s plans for dual class shares to attract listed firms post-Brexit

Jan 12, 2021By John's Labour blog

 

Responsible, retail and institutional investors see the plans as“regressive” The UK listings review proposed by the Treasury, including the introduction of dual class shares with different voting rights for shares listed with the London Stock E…Read more…

Jan 12, 2021John's Labour blog

Christina McAnea elected UNISON general secretary

Jan 11, 2021By John's Labour blog

Absolutely fantastic news! Congratulations to the first ever female General Secretory of any of the biggest 5 UK trade unions. Commiserations to the 3 other candidates (and especially to Roger McKenzie who ran a good, clean campaign). What we need to d…Read more…

Jan 11, 2021John's Labour blog

Cllr Lola Oyewusi to be the next Kent Police & Crime Commissioner May 2021

Jan 10, 2021By John's Labour blog

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. 
I have known Lola for many years and she is the assistant …Read more…

Jan 10, 2021John's Labour blog

“Owning the Future” Co-operative Party London Conference 23 January 2021

Jan 9, 2021By John's Labour blog

 
Dear John On the morning of Saturday 23rd January, the Co-operative Party is hosting a virtual regional conference with Party memb…Read more…

Jan 9, 2021John's Labour blog

Standing for UNISON NEC Community Seats

Jan 8, 2021By John's Labour blog

 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…

Jan 8, 2021John's Labour blog

“Newham: Councillors rebel against Mayor over emission-based parking permit scheme”

Jan 7, 2021By John's Labour blog

 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…

Jan 7, 2021John's Labour blog

FTSE 100 chief executives ‘earn average salary within 3 days’

Jan 6, 2021By John's Labour blog

 
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…

Jan 6, 2021John's Labour blog

“Why we need you to stand as a Labour Councillor”

Jan 5, 2021By John's Labour blog

 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…

Jan 5, 2021John's Labour blog

UK Covid Lockdown as 4 January 2020

Jan 4, 2021By John's Labour blog

(As BBC website)  “England is going into lockdown to try to prevent the NHS from becoming overwhelmed by a surge in coronavirus cases.Primary and secondary schools will close to almost all pupils, and people will be instructed to stay at home.Nort…Read more…

Jan 4, 2021John's Labour blog

West Ham, Stratford & Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park walk

Jan 3, 2021By John's Labour blog

 Picture collage from yesterdays lockdown “3 Park walk”. First was West Ham Park (we had coffee sitting on the bench remembering local Spanish Civil War International Brigader and poet, David Marshall) then Stratford Park (check out the Senso…Read more…

Jan 3, 2021John's Labour blog

UNISON COVID-19 response fund – there for you

Jan 2, 2021By John's Labour blog

 (A reminder during these dreadful times)

Members experiencing financial and emotional difficulties can contact our welfare charity, There for You, which provides a confidential advice and support service for members and their dependants.COVID-19…Read more…

Jan 2, 2021John's Labour blog

An Awful New Year Day Calamity

Jan 1, 2021By John's Labour blog

 

This morning my Councillor colleague, John Whitworth and I, went to West Ham Cemetery to lay some flowers at the memorial to 26 boys who died in a fire exactly 131 years ago. The boys lived in a massive workhouse for children nearby in Forest …Read more…

Jan 1, 2021John's Labour blog
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