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This will be a fun event taking place at the Vicarage Lane Community Centre, Govier Close, West Ham, E15 4HW.
Please RSVP to branch secretary John Whitworth if you are planning to come. All members and their guests welcome.
Hat tip invite SeyiRead more…
I have a clash but hope this important lobby in support of decent pay for all Council workers goes well! I will be submitting a motion on pay to the next Newham Labour Group and branch/CLP meeting. Read more…
On Friday the Jewish Chronicle published this article by my libel blogging mate David Osler (aka other names).
By coincidence that day I met with Dave and his partner Stroppy in a Hackney restaurant for a prearranged “put the world to rights” meal, go…Read more…
Off message but Gill and I did a lovely rural circular 5.3 mile walk today around Matching in Essex (near Harlow). You start at the ancient village church and walk down the road to the most glorious english duck pond ever. You then cross lush meadows s…Read more…
Hat tip Labour history website & twitter feed “On this Day” OTD in 1965. Redundancy Payments Act. “Gives workers the right to receive financial sum should they lose a job”.
Great picture of Labour Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, with his famou…Read more…
Black Members – please see important information below to action or note, thanks.
Notting Hill Carnival, London, 27-28 AugustNotting Hill Carnival is Europe’s largest street festival representing London’s multicultural past and present. UNISON has a regular presence every year at the carnival…Read more…
Hat tip Newham Recorder “Cllr and members of the public attending a vigil on Dames Road where a V1 flying bomb landed killing people on a bus outside the Holly Tree pub
Dozens gathered to pay their respects to Forest Gate’s war dead on the anniversary of the night a bomb hit a bus during the…Read more…
This looks like a really good event. Well done to the new Newham Fabians Officers for organising this. Thankfully we now have a local Fabian society that actually does stuff! Tom will be a great speaker. Read more…
Good luck to Unison members about to start a further bout of strike action tomorrow. I will be sending a message of support both as a Unison NEC for such community members and behalf of our branch executive. See letter below explaining the dispute in local newspaper.
“THERE’S a critical…Read more…
A great article by Henry Tapper in his blog “Pension Playpen” about the nonsense being spread about the “fantasy deficits” reported by the huge pension fund, University Superannuation Scheme (USS).
The USS has produced investment returns of 21% increasing its assets to £60 billion in the last year…Read more…
On Sunday 16 July Sunday 2017 during the annual Tolpuddle Martyrs weekend, I went for a walk with Gill in Chipping Ongar and Greensted to visit the wooden Saxon Church and pay homage to the Tolpuddle Martyrs who were resettled in farms around here, aft…Read more…
Following on from the victory over employment tribunal fees on Wednesday.
“UNISON has won a landmark court victory today (Friday 28 July) that makes it much harder for employers to ignore staff when making major changes in the workplace.
The Court of…Read more…
This picture is from Wednesday evening, when we had a West Ham Labour General Election “Wash Up”. CLP Officers, Branch organisers and secretaries were invited to our headquarters in Stratford to talk about and debate, what went right with our election …Read more…
A great community event in West Ham Park tomorrow and Sunday. Many thanks to the HAFS Academy for organising it. Read more…
Above is a picture collage from this evening’s anniversary vigil to remember the victims of a Nazi Flying bomb attack on this day 27 July 1944 which killed horribly at least 38 East Enders (updated figure) at this very spot.
Forest Gate Councillor, An…Read more…
What a fantastic legal victory for UNISON and all British workers at the Supreme Court today. I must admit as a UNISON NEC member when we received reports on the 4 year legal battle which got turned down by the High Court and the Appeal Court that I wa…Read more…
After having a great time at the Afropunk London festival last weekend, I followed my usual ritual before going to bed on Saturday night: checking to see what I had missed on Instagram during the day. I came across the clip of CCTV footage&nb…Read more…
“What a strange device man is: you fill him with wine, fish and radishes and out come sighs, laughter and dreams”! (Nikos Kazantzakis)
Let us see what comes out when we fill a bunch of nice, caring and interesting people with all kinds of drinks a…Read more…
As a Councillor I was sent this motion by UNISON which I support and will send to our Council Labour Group, Newham School Governors and West Ham Labour Party Branch and General Committee.
(Please note that workers in local government and sc…Read more…
Thursday 27th July Forest Gate North Labour Party will be holding an Anti Fascist/Anti Nazi vigil to remember those 20 or so local residents killed by a V1 rocket on the 27th of July 1944.
Meet at The Holly Tree Pub 141 Dames Road , E7, corner with Pe…Read more…