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Picture collage from today’s “Super Saturday” campaign in support of Sadiq Khan as London Mayor. Around 20 activists turned up to work with West Ham MP, Lyn Brown, in Canning Town in the morning and a similar number in the afternoon in Forest Gate.
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Be warned!!!! I have made a number of urgent messages to union members over the years asking them to remove a post on social media about their employer or work colleagues.
“Is the right to respect for private life and correspondence breached if emplo…Read more…
Congratulations to Angela Rayner MP for Ashton-under-Lyne who has been appointed as Shadow Minister for Pensions.
Angie is a former home care worker and UNISON branch secretary.
It is fantastic that we have a shadow pension minister who knows first h…Read more…
“Apology from Jon Rogers to Dave Prentis
In December of last year, prior to the conclusion of the election for the post of General Secretary of Unison, I made various comments about Dave Prentis, General Secretary of Unison, who has now been re-elected…Read more…
On Saturday ward members from West Ham branch went out campaigning in Paul Street E15. We had 2 newly active members out with us for the first time ever “on the knocker”. They seemed to enjoy it – talking to residents, mastering the art of using …Read more…
Knowing the Redbridge Mayor I am sure that the band (and piper) will be excellent! Read more…
On Thursday evening I was invited to speak to a joint meeting of both Forest Gate Labour Party branches on the Trade Union Bill. It started off with a quiz on trade unions, which was an excellent ice breaker and introduction. I then spoke about trade u…Read more…
Picture from demonstration yesterday in London by 5000 NHS nurses and supporters against Tory plans to scrap their bursaries.There was also demonstrations in Manchester and Newcastle.
From UNISON “The government plans to force nurses into debt of at least £51,600 by making them pay the…Read more…
This looks good. RSVP customhousebranch2016@gmail.comRead more…
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Hat tip Facebook “Red London” (I suspect that this may not be a strictly genuine Metro letter but…)Read more…
“Before 2015 is consigned to history and 2016 presents a new set of employment law challenges, it is timely to reflect on the year’s significant cases. We have identified 12 cases which developed the law and potentially changed HR policies and practices:Working time and travelFSP del COO v Tyco…Read more…
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This morning I was outside Plaistow Underground station with West Ham Labour Party comrades handing out leaflets on fare rises to commuters going into work. Outside railway and bus stations across the country, Labour and trade union activists wer…Read more…
I have just signed the Parliamentary Petition here to keep bursaries for trainee NHS Nurses. The petition has 148,815 supporters (according to the map on the site 250 have signed from my West Ham Consistency.
Parliament will debate this petition on Ja…Read more…
In between Christmas and New Year I was laid low with the lergie so stayed in and managed to finish off inputting the “marked register” data for the ward onto the Party database “Contact Creator” for the 2015 General Election.
The register is an actua…Read more…
Off message but been looking through my albums for my favourite photo from 2015. This one is from a walk up and down Place Fell, in the Lake District narrowly wins. Click on photo to bring up more detail.
See my post on the walk here.
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Happy Hogmanay!
See, I told you I was Scottish 🙂Read more…
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Sad news to hear about the sudden death of Anton Moctonian. He was a former UNISON activist but I knew him as a Trade Union studies tutor.
He was a great tutor not only because he was an experienced trade union steward who knew practice as well as the…Read more…