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Yesterday morning Labour Leader Ed Miliband launched the Party campaign at the top of the Orbit.
Ed is pictured in the collage (top left) shaking the tiny hand of Juniper baby daughter of Newham Councillor, Farah Nazeer.
UNISON Assistant General Se…Read more…
After the Stratford By Election candidate selection and West Ham Labour General Committee some of us went to support this fund raiser.
It took place in the Royal Regency in Manor Park. Which is a magnificent former cinema restored as a plush fun…Read more…
This is great news. Tonight local Mum Charlene McLean was selected by Stratford and New town Labour Party ward to be their candidate in the forthcoming by election.
This will take place at the same day as the general election.
I was the procedural …Read more…
I am not a member of the Local Government Service Group anymore (even though my pay and conditions like many UNISON Community members are still determined by the National Joint Council) so I was not there yesterday and don’t know how accurate this UNIS…Read more…
The right to vote is so precious. People have suffered and died for this right. Politics in this country is far from perfect but if you don’t vote, then you betraying these democracy martyrs from the past and present and just giving the thumbs up …Read more…
Great Youtube video produced by the Institute of Employment Rights’ featuring Professor Keith Ewing and John Hendy QC. I don’t think even trade unionists really understand that the most important thing we do is collective bargaining with employer…Read more…
Last Tuesday evening we had our Annual General Meeting of Greater London UNISON Housing Association Branch Labour Link at the House of Commons. UNISON Labour Link members (also known as APF) choose to support and affiliate to the Labour Party
Our keyn…Read more…
Great video from Trade Unions for Labour (TULO) on the Labour Party “Manifesto for Change”. A quietly spoken, Paul Kenny, from the GMB asks trade unionists to “When it comes to Vote, Vote Labour, no other Party, No other movement is going to deliver th…Read more…
This is off message and a little late but last month I went for a weekend in Cromer, Norfolk and went on this fantastic 8.5mile walk on the Saturday starting in Wells. The Norfolk coast and countryside is simply stunning.
The blue, big Eastern skies a…Read more…
The “Local Government Chronicle” reports huge fights currently going on between trade unions and Council officers about representation on the new Local Government Pension Scheme Boards.
It is clear that some Councils are trying to openly s…Read more…
I was pleased last week to hear that I had been elected unopposed to this year’s UNISON Labour Link National Forum with Jonathan Slater and James Beckles.
There is still an election for female delegates to National Forum and Labour Party Conference.
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This collage is from today’s West Ham Labour Party stall in Forest Gate. Lyn Brown MP and local Party members and supporters handed out leaflets on Labour plans to save the NHS and rent controls. We also leafleted shoppers at our local Co-operative sto…Read more…
Not that there is anything wrong with being called John but this blatant sexism and inequality is a nonsense. It is also simply bad for business if you exclude half the world from the the potential pool of talent to recruit from. The picture above is f…Read more…
Hat tip to excellent local history website “E7 Now & Then” for a fascinating and topical post on the MPs who have served the Forest Gate part of West Ham North.
Amazing that we once had an Austro-Hungarian Baron as our MP, another who was re…Read more…
“Inside Housing” on Friday had another gloomy article on the problems facing the Social Housing Pension Scheme (SHPS).
The “deficit” is apparently getting bigger and some Housing Associations are so worried that they are thinking of joining others who…Read more…
This picture is from last weeks meeting of UNISON National Labour Link Committee next to guest speaker, Sadiq Khan MP, Chair Eleanor Smith and General Secretary Dave Prentis.
Assistant General Secretary, Liz Snape, gave us a briefing on the UNISON Ge…Read more…
Last week I watched Ed Balls give a typically combative speech at the RSA about Tory spending and taxation plans if they won the next election.
On Sunday morning I again saw Ed interviewed on the BBC Andrew Marr programme who then went on to intervie…Read more…
The Charity Aston-Mansfield is
seeking funding for its Newham LGBT Youth support group via a crowd funding campaign. They aim to raise £6,000 and have already donations from local football team Clapton Ultras after their Football vs Homophobia’ match. The crowd funding will last until the 11th…Read more…
On Tuesday evening (and repeated 5pm today) the excellent investigative Radio 4 programme “File on 4” examined whether at the same time that Councils are suffering from massive Government cuts – their pension funds are also being ripped off by fund man…Read more…
After our street stall today in Stratford many West Ham Labour Party members went off to canvass in the marginal seat of Ilford North to support Wes Streeting as its future Labour MP.
We were split between two large local canvass teams. It was a…Read more…