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“Newham residents are being urged to wear orange and make a pledge to stand up to violence against women and girls as part of the UN’S 16 Days of Activism, an international campaign against domestic violence.
Newham Council is supporting the campaign…Read more…
I am back home after a couple of busy days in my role as a UNISON National Executive Committee (NEC) appointed Trustee.
On Tuesday I travelled up to Grantham in Lincolnshire to a meeting of the UNISON Welfare Trustee Board. This board is a mix of…Read more…
Dear SGE Members
Further to my last NEC report to SGE on 3 October 2018. Apologies for the lateness of this report and that I will only be able to stay for a short while at this meeting since I will have to travel to Birmingham to attend another UNISO…Read more…
7 reasons to join UNISONEach of our 1.3 million members has their own reasons for joining UNISON.But every one receives our help and support.Legal HelpFor you at work and your family at homeFinancial AssistanceAnd debt advice in times of needCompensati…Read more…
I was really proud of the budget proposals announced today by our Labour Mayor, Rokhsana Fiaz, at Full Council tonight. In spite of further Government cuts and Austerity, we are proposing a London Living Wage for all our care staff (then rolled out to …Read more…
Xmas will start on 7 December!
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Hat tip John Healey MP Shadow Secretary of State for Housing. This is one of the reasons why we have 105 street homeless living rough in Newham as well as 5,100 homeless families living in temporary accommodation and 28,000 on our waiting list. T…Read more…
Top video from Chester at CY Film production on Newham activists and the “Stand up to Racism” march last Saturday. Apologies for muddling date of London Blitz. It was over 70 years not 60.Read more…
Another excellent housing “myth buster” by Red Brick (Website of the Labour Housing Group) “home ownership is now easily the most subsidised tenure, much more so than social housing, with private renting receiving the least help”.
“It often seems that…Read more…
Picture collage from yesterday’s evening demo and rally in Westminster against cuts in school funding. Despite the rain, it was a cheerful, noisy and well attended event. Newham Labour Group met up with local activists beforehand at Stratford Station (…Read more…
Many thanks to all participants at @NewhamLondon Homelessness Action Group. We had residents with lived experience, DWP, Charities & officers working together to tackle the scourge of Homelessness. We have a way to go #OurDayRead more…
Last week was National Schools Meals Week and up and down the Country, Councillors have been to their local schools to have a meal with pupils and staff.
Cllr John Whitworth and I went to Manor Primary School in our West Ham ward and met the Head Teac…Read more…
Love this. Calendar present 2018 (March) from my Mum. Painting by Welsh artist Kyffin Williams sometime 1990 – 2006. Read more…
This picture collage is from today’s March and Rally in Central London. Newham Labour Councillors, Party members & supporters met in the morning outside Stratford Station in order to travel down together to the march.
While we were gathering there…Read more…
Some culture for a change on my blog even though I have a clash next weekend and cannot make it!
“Symphony No. 9 in D minor op 125 (Choral Symphony) by Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the most famous pieces of music ever written. Instantly recognizable…Read more…
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.
Donate …Read more…