This fund raiser hosted by Kevin Maguire (“Associate Editor of the Daily Mirror & TV pundit”) will take place tomorrow – Wednesday 2 September.
From 6.30pm at “The Parcel Yard, Kings Cross Station, London, N1 9AL.”
Tickets £5 each. Read more…
Friwin Memories – New Ballast Pit Short
Bass Maltings Short from Friwin on Vimeo.
When he is not on his ship off the coast of South America (month on, then month off) he is trying to set up a promotional video company with an old school friend. From close up weddings, naming ceremonies, busi…Read more…
Vote against Keith Hellawell as director of Sports Direct
“VOTE AGAINST resolution 4 to re-elect Keith Hellawell as a Director of Sports Direct International PLC at the AGM 9/9/15
We believe that voting against the chair Keith Hellawell is appropriate in order to send a message about our concerns about mana…Read more…
Dave Prentis – UNISON General Secretary election 2015
Just as the Labour Leadership election is coming to a close there is another important Labour Movement contest for 1.3 million UNISON members. The 5 yearly election of our General Secretary (GS).
I am supporting Dave Prentis to be re-elected as …Read more…
Evidence from the UNISON Housing Associations Branch to the Select Committee
“We are a London-based branch of the national trade union UNISON, which organises workers providing public services.
We organise over 3,000 workers across Greater London who are employed by housing associations and are recognised by most of the G…Read more…
Murad Qureshi Standing up for City & East
‘We need an experienced City and East representative like Murad, who can hit the ground running. With his strong track record of effectively holding the London Mayor to account, he offers all the people of East London a campaigning GLA member who will …Read more…
UNISON Champion – June Poole RIP
I was shocked to hear the sad news that UNISON stalwart, June Poole, has passed away after a short illness. We were supposed to meet yesterday at the UNISON centre in London for a Board meeting of the Welfare Trustees.This meeting was cancelled out of …Read more…
Speech to Cabinet on “Alternative Finance Proposal for Newham Pension scheme” (Special Purpose Vehicle)
Below is the full version of the speech I gave this afternoon at the crowded Cabinet meeting at Newham Dockside in support of last night’s recommendations by our Overview & Scrutiny Committee.The recommendation was that we should not spend up to £500k on a SPV for the pension fund without the…Read more…
South West Ham Independent Labour Party – “Wanted £2000 For New Buildings”
Ht tip Captain Swing who noticed this in an ebay auction. I am not sure who “Treasurer Alderman W. Bell 15 Mafeking Road E16” or what was the “New Building” appeal or why the “Bullfinch”? but suspect he is the former Mayor of West Ham mentioned here ht…Read more…
Newham Overview & Scrunity “Call in” on SPV – 6.30pm Monday 24 August 2015
Tomorrow evening at Committee Room 1, East Ham Town Hall, members of Newham Council Overview & Scrutiny will debate a request from a Cllr that up to £500,000 should not yet be spent on a proposed Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) for its staff pension fund.
Cllr Farah Nazeer has asked that this…Read more…
Labour Party Leadership discourse
Last Saturday I was in North Wales and went out for an evening meal and family get together in a small bistro restaurant in Ruthin, Denbighshire called “On the Hill”. There was 6 of us aged 25 to 74 sitting in a private table in the corner away from ot…Read more…
Vote FIAZ, Rokhsana #1 – London Executive on Association of Labour Cllrs
(In a personal capacity and as a Newham Cllr I fully support Rokhsana as a candidate to be the ALC rep for London. She has integrity and principles and will be a fantastic advocate for London Councils at the ALC).
Vote FIAZ, Rokhsana #1Association of …Read more…
Select Committee on Future for Housing Associations – Have your say
My UNISON branch Greater London Housing Associations and the national UNISON Community Service Group Executive are asking members to make submissions to the Parliamentary Select Committee investigation into the future of Housing Associations. See below…Read more…
Londoners’ walk up Place Fell
Off message but last week I was on holiday in the Lake District and went for a superb 8.5 mile walk up and down Place Fell then alongside Ullswater. The weather was unusually kind, warm and sunny (unlike some of the other days – there is a reason why t…Read more…
Social Rents in Newham are the highest in country
“Figures showing the borough has the least affordable social housing in the country have prompted calls for action from campaigners and MP Stephen Timms.
Newham came top of 338 locations with an average rent of £128.89 a week, the Office for National Statistics data covering England and Wales…Read more…
TUC National Rally & March on the Tory Conference 4 October 2015
“Sunday 4 October – “No to austerity, yes to workers’ rights””On Sunday 4 October, the Conservative party will open their annual conference in Manchester. After five years of austerity, falling living standards, pay freezes and huge cuts to public services, a new parliament won’t offer a…Read more…
Murad Qureshi AM on West Ham and the Olympic Stadium
It is the last chance tonight to watch the BBC investigation “When the Hammers struck Gold” on iPlayer. The programme was first shown on August 6th and alleged that the UK taxplayer has been ripped off in the deal over the use of the Olympic Stad…Read more…
UNISON Capital Stewards Website
I have just signed into the new UNISON website for Capital Stewards and will start posting some links and articiles over the next few days. The site is currently only for UNISON activists and is password protected. If you are a UNISON pension trustee o…Read more…
Why trade unionists are saying #YesWeKhan
This post was published yesterday on Left Foot Forward.
“Sadiq Khan’s mayoral manifesto shows his commitment to helping working people
While there are a number of good candidates standing to be the Labour Mayoral Candidate in 2016, there is one outs…Read more…
Overview & Scrunity “Call in” expenditure on Newham “Special Purpose Vehicle”
I was very pleased to hear this evening that members of Newham Council Overview & Scrutiny Committee had agreed to “call in” the Executive Mayor’s decision to spend up to £500,000 on developing a “Special Purpose Vehicle” (SPV) for the Newham Staff Pension fund without agreement that it…Read more…