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On Tuesday 2 November there will be a virtual meeting of the UNISON London Regional Council. All branches can send delegates to this meeting.
At this meeting we will debate the following Emergency Motion 1 Received from the Greenwich Local …Read more…
UNISON Greater London activists met with Christina McAnea ahead of tomorrow’s government spending review.Our message to Rishi Sunak is clear: The government must find the money for the pay rise our members deserve.
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Find out how at http://unison.org.uk/SOS #PlugTheGap #SaveOurServicesRead more…
“Almost 200 victories in a month shows the value of the union’s personal injury legal assistance scheme, which is free to use, win or lose
UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea hailed “an incredible achievement for our members”, as almost 20…Read more…
Dear John Gray
Test date: 23 October 2021Your coronavirus lateral flow test result is negative. It’s likely you are not infectious. But a negative test is not a guarantee, and there’s still a chance you may be infectious.Keep following corona…Read more…
off messageBack from a good night out in London West End. Played my first game of darts in a wonderful pub for God knowns how long? Great Punjab meal. Pubs and restaurants appear quiet and safe.
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Out campaigning with my West Ham Ward colleague, Cllr John Whitworth, who has mastered the Labour doorstep app on his phone. Another very positive response for Labour. We will be chasing highways about weeds on footways!
Great to be back tonight in the Newham Council Chamber in East Ham Town Hall for a meeting. Some interesting statistics from the agenda which included our draft annual report on the pension fund.
There are 29,122 scheme members53 different emplo…Read more…
Check out personal report below by former UNISON President and current NEC member Maureen Le Marinel.
It is incredible in the midst of us mobilising to take on the Tories and win strike ballots over pay, the ultra left are attacking our General …Read more…
Picture from start of Newham London Full Council meeting in Old Town Hall Stratford. Next we had a minutes silence in memory of murdered MP, David Amess. Then Cllr Griffiths, who knew David gave an emotional tribute followed by fellow St Bons “old…Read more…
As much as I enjoy walking locally in Epping Forest, Essex and East Hertfordshire, it was great to go on some more challenging walking today in the Chilterns.
We started off at the Coombe Hill car park (Just over 1 hour drive from Forest G…Read more…
Exciting news about Newham Heritage Month 2022
Newham Heritage Month will be back for an exciting third year in June 2022! The festival is made by Newham’s community for the community and we’re offering you grants of up to £8,000&…Read more…
David Amess was a Newham boy born in Plaistow and educated I believe in St Bonaventure School. Today I also remembered the stabbing of East Ham MP Stephen Timms and the killing of Jo Cox MP. We had a number of political campaigning sessions plan…Read more…
My West Ham Ward Councillor colleague, John Whitworth and I (our ward colleague Charlene had a clash) had a really interesting Street Surgery this evening. Knocking on doors and introducing ourselves and asking residents if they had any issues wi…Read more…
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This evening in the Old Town Hall Stratford I attended the celebration of Latin American Day. There was speeches and poetry then delicious foods and great live music.
Everyone from our local Latin American Community I spoke to were so happ…Read more…
Yesterday Gill and went on this walk around Daws Health, detailed in “Wild Essex Walks” book. It was a largely interesting 6 mile walk thorough ancient forests, but not that “Wild”. It was a little busy in parts and there was road noise fro…Read more…
If you are a UNISON member who is affiliated to the Labour Party, you should have received a ballot paper to your home address and an email (If UNISON have an email address for you and if there is a contested election in your region).
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It was a lovely day for the time of year to go canvassing for Labour. We split into two teams. My team leafleted some modern apartment blocks overlooking the old docks (we could not get in to door knock).
Then by contrast we walked through the E…Read more…
(See what happened on the day that the Ultra left tried to divide & destroy our union just when we are mobilising to call pay strike ballots in Health & Local Government. I will add my name)
Statement from NEC Members following the NEC Me…Read more…