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Healthy workplaces for all ages (this advice has gone out this week on my employers website. We will he carrying out joint union and management safety inspections)
Each year, European Health and Safety Week aims to promote goo…d health and safety practice. This year’s theme is Healthy…Read more…
This is off message and a very late post. Gill and I have been walking (very slowly and in fits and starts) around our capital city via the London Loop long distance path. It is circular route, 150 miles long, made up of 15 different sections. We start…Read more…
This morning I was on my way to a seminar on opposing the new Housing & Planning Act.
I stopped off in London Liverpool Street station to take this photo of the statute (by the ticket office) in honour of the thousands of unaccompanied …Read more…
Hat tip to Captain Swing for sending me this record from the GMB national achieves of a “thank you for voting for me” message from a young East Ham based union activist to we presume, members of his local branch.
The activist is Harry Polli…Read more…
Picture from last week of West Ham ward Councillors (John Whitworth, me and Freda Bourne) with street Artist Mr Cenz (on right), in front of his fantastic mural in Church Road junction with New Plaistow Road, E15 (next to William Hill bookmakers).
Th…Read more…
Dear Colleague,
There is a local government by-election in Hackney on 3 November, with a strong Newham connection – Labour’s Candidate is Yvonne Maxwell is the daughter of former Newham Councillor Doris Maxwell.
The seat used to be held by th…Read more…
Celebrate the special link between Boleyn and West Ham United FC! Take part in a mass bike ride from the Bobby Moore statue to the club’s new stadium in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Anyone who can ride a bike is welcome! Children must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
The picture is from last Saturday when local residents in Church Street, NHW – Neighbourhood watch West Ham, E15 organised a community clean up, garden planting day and cake stall. It took place next to the historic All Saints church.
They got a gr…Read more…
This I think is a great picture of the UNISON National Executive Council (NEC) at our annual conference in Brighton June 2016.
There are 65 members of the NEC representing the 1.3 million members in UNISON and they are all elected…Read more…
Picture college from Saturday’s West Ham Labour street stall and door knock in Canning Town. Our MP, Lyn Brown, spoke to people at the stall while canvass teams called at addresses near bye. The theme was the reintroduction of segregation into ou…Read more…
This celebration event is being organised by one of my branch UNISON Housing Association Executive Committee members who is also a Labour activist in Kent and a volunteer for a Christian charity. Read more…
I am still catching up on posts about this years Labour Party Conference. On the Monday evening of conference I was an UNISON speaker at the “Axe the Housing Act” fringe with Unite Assistant General Secretary, Steve Turner (seen speaking…Read more…
I was really pleased to hear that Yvonne has been selected to be the Labour Party candidate to replace the new Hackney Executive Mayor, Philip Granville, as a Councillor for Hoxton West.
I have known Yvonne for a number of years. Her partne…Read more…
“There’s only six weeks to go until the European Health and Safety Week 2016, with the theme this year of: “Healthy Workplaces for all Ages.” Further information about the event can be found here, but as we count down each passing week, we’ll take a brief look at one of the relevant…Read more…
Report for Ward Meeting 6 October 2016
Apologises for the lateness of this report and not attending all of this meeting but after presenting my report and answering any questions, I will go to the Forest Gate North ward meeting where I am the Vice C…Read more…
“Despite the rain we had a great turnout last week – so we’d thought we’d do it again.
Please join local members at a street stall on Saturday. And some of us will also knock on doors of nearby homes to talk to voters there too. Don’t worry if you’v…Read more…
I do sometimes wonder whether Communist Soviet Union “sleeper agents” in the Conservative Party have been “activated” since 2015?
The recent announcement of Government guidance that directs UK Council pension schemes to only invest…Read more…
I stopped off today to say hello to Street Artist, “Mr Cenz”, who is creating a mural in West Ham ward, Church Road junction with New Plaistow Road, E15 (next to William Hill bookmakers).
Mr Cenz is a professional international artist. He r…Read more…
On Tuesday 4 October 2016 it is the 80th anniversary of the 1936 “Battle of Cable Street” when anti-
fascists stopped a march through the (then) largely Jewish East End of London by Oswald Mosley and his British Union of Fascists.
I have worked …Read more…
After the “Unions together” fringe on Sunday I cycled (using the Liverpool Council rented City Bikes) from the conference centre to my 2nd housing fringe that evening at the historic Cunard Buildng in Pier Head.
The Labour Housing Group is a soci…Read more…