These are the candidates who are standing in UNISON National seats who I would support (including myself of course!)
Check out UNISON NEC Elections blog and Facebook page for more details. Read more…
Everyone should pay their fair share of taxes
Totally and utterly agree. If you want to live in this country and enjoy its rule of law, relative low crime and social cohesion then you should at least pay the same marginal rate of taxation as your cleaner.
If you don’t want to pay this then can we…Read more…
UNISON Staff Choir first public performance
Fantastic treat tonight in the UNISON centre for NEC members and staff before Presidents Charity fund raising quiz. Amazing performance by Choir which was much appreciated by audience.
UNISON NEC Elections 2015
Tomorrow (April 7) ballot papers should be starting to drop though the home letter boxes of 1.3 million UNISON members up and down the country.
Every 2 years all members of the UNISON National Executive Committee (NEC) are up for re-election. The UNIS…Read more…
Happy 50th Birthday London Boroughs – time to change?
This is an interesting video commissioned by modern day London Councils to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the current London Borough arrangements. Before 1965 Newham had separate West Ham and East Ham Councils.
There has been massive changes in Lon…Read more…
Easter Saturday at Ilford North
Picture collage is from this afternoon’s campaigning for Wes Streeting as the future Labour MP for Ilford North.
We had 5 West Hammers (and 1 East Hammer) with us while Walhamstow PPC, Stella Creasy, was also there with her local activists to support …Read more…
Walk of Witness – Easter Friday
Shortly after I blogged on my “Vote Labour” poster in my window there was outside the annual Easter “Walk of Witness” by local Churches, who gathered at the Joseph Fry Memorial drinking fountain in Wansted flats.
Vote Labour 2015 Window Poster
My 2015 General Election “Vote Labour” window poster has just gone up. Now, I have my doubts that window posters actually change people’s voting intentions. If there are many of them in an area they can portray presence and local support but I th…Read more…
UNISON Housing Associations: Branch Organiser Job Vacancy
UNISON (Housing Associations Branch)
Location: London . Salary: £34,633 inc LW (pay award pending) . Hours: 35 hours per week . About the job: Please note that this is a branch-employed post.
The Branch Organiser is a new role within the Unison Housing Associations branch. The…Read more…
100 business cheats: Labour threatens our cosy fat cat life
“Today big Tory Business lines up to attack ED Miliband and Labour by sending a letter to a right wing paper saying it would be a disaster if Labour are elected…. Look carefully at these companies and individuals.
They comprise of Corporate Tax Dod…Read more…
Let’s Keep it Co-op Together.
If you are a member of the Co-op – check out this video on how to keep the co-operative partnership between the Co-op Group and the Co-op Party.
Work together in cooperation for a fairer Britain.Read more…
“Incredible wealth in the UK exists alongside unimaginable poverty”
Check out the latest Inequality Briefing “Since 2009 executive pay has soared and the number of billionaires has increased, while food bank use has rocketed and pay for ordinary workers has fallen”.
If you want to really do something about thi…Read more…
What’s the choice in this election?
Newham Local Government Branch AGM 2015 – The threat to your pensions- “if it sounds too good to be true then…”
On Friday I was invited to speak at the annual general meeting of the Newham UNISON branch at the Town Hall in East Ham.
This was in my trade union capacity as the Chair of the London UNISON pension network. This is my wr…Read more…
Stratford, Finchley & Ilford Labour Campaign Day and the more people see of Ed Miliband – the more they like him
Saturday was a busy campaigning day. In the morning I went to the Sarah Sackman’s headquarters in Finchley & Golders Green, to help deliver leaflets on behalf of “trade unions together” (TULO). This was a really well organised office with a fr…Read more…
“Broken Commitments, Vulnerable Workers” – Union busting by National Express continues
On Tuesday morning I attended another presentation by US transport union, the Teamsters, to pension funds on the anti-union practises by a National Express owned US company called Durham which runs schools buses.
The Chair of the Local Auth…Read more…
Thank you, Good luck and Goodbye – to a Workers Champion
Picture from last night’s leaving dinner for my branch outreach worker, Andy Robertson (2nd on
right).
Andy is a former UNISON Housing activist in Leeds who left to become a mature student at university to study a HR (Human Relations – what we u…Read more…
Before you go to bed tonight remember to change your clock according to your political values…
Labour Campaign Launch at Olympic Park
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…
East Ham and Ilford North Election fund raiser
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…