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Today I had a meeting with one of my employers health and safety team to discuss what we can do to mark Workers Memorial Day on 28 April 2022.
The international theme for this year is that “Occupational health & safety is a fundamental right…Read more…
Friday was day 1 of the UNISON Community Service Group (Housing associations and voluntary sector members) annual Seminar and conference in Glasgow.
It was so good to have a physical in person conference and meet other delegates who I have…Read more…
Today, as Chair of UNISON London Regional Labour Link Committee, I chaired our London Forum of UNISON Labour Link. Which took place in the UNISON Centre in Camden. It was great to be back in the centre after two long years, for a in person (and v…Read more…
Invitation: LAPFF Roundtable on Socio-Economic Diversity: 23 March @ 3pm (f you are an LGPS officer, pension committee or board member or an advisor please join us next week) Dear LAPFF members, I am writing to you to remind you of the Round…Read more…
Blog post title is mine but please check out and share this really important expose of the vile decisions currently been made in our name by the extremist toy town revolutionaries who currently dominate our NEC and are doing their best to destr…Read more…
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“Pension scammers screw up lives. With up to 5% of all transfers estimated to be scams there are devastating financial and emotional consequences for scheme members. But you can help. The industry is best placed to identify and stop potential sca…Read more…
Off message but a nice but wet walk today with Gill starting in Hertford. A http://www.pathfinderwalks.co.uk/our-books/pathfinder-hertfordshire-bedfordshire/ circular walk, some 45 minutes from East London by car and accessible by train.
As…Read more…
This morning I went on a Labour canvass in my ward, West Ham with my fellow Councillor John Whitworth and local activist Asheem Singh.
We went to Maud Gardens which is a small low rise housing estate. We picked up a lot of case work and …Read more…
I was really pleased to have been nominated as the new joint trade union rep to the London CIV. This collective pool of London Council pension funds has so far £44 billion of assets under its management. Many thanks to Christopher Cooper f…Read more…
Check out these Labour Party webinars below on being a Labour Party Parliamentary candidate and support for the local elections in May.
Picture above is from the 2013 TULO (now called Labour Unions) Parliamentary training school. UNISON was well repre…Read more…
Hat tip in-UNISON blog yesterday by former President and current minority group NEC member, Maureen Le Marinel.
“On such a special day, it is always great to hear news that will make a difference to women in our union both members and staff. Many of y…Read more…
Fantastic news today that the Greater London Labour Link elections resulted in a clean sweep for those committed to win a future general election. We won all the elected positions of our regional committee, national forum and Labour Party Conference de…Read more…
Hat tip https://www.in-unison.org/post/international-women-s-day-2022
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Last week was my branch AGM (UNISON Greater London Housing Associations) where I was re-elected unopposed as an executive committee member and Labour Link Officer. Below is my written report to the AGM (obviously pre the fascist Putin invasion of Ukrai…Read more…
Off message but Gill and I went today on one of our “favourite” walks in the Chilterns. Starting in the “Chocolate box” village of Aldbury. It is an hour away from East London by car (nearest train station is Tring) a 7 mile circular walk along the Rid…Read more…
BBC link “As we’ve been reporting, the Russian authorities have restricted access to BBC websites in Russian and English, as well as other international and independent media, accusing them of circulating “false information” about what…Read more…
This morning I had my first “physical” Councillor surgery in two years at Stratford Library archivist room (a fantastic local history resource) then I joined a Labour canvass in West Ham Ward. While talking to residents about local issues they w…Read more…
Fantastic solidarity with the people of Ukraine against Putin the murderer by UNISON members. Check out this BBC report:-
“Dockers in Kent have refused to unload two tankers of Russian gas, forcing them to go elsewhere, a union has said.The Boris Vilki…Read more…
A great bit of local Labour movement history. I believe this is from a NUPE publication (one of the predator unions that formed UNISON) archives dated 1933.
The NUPE branch took up the issue of “wardsmaids” employed at Whipps Cross Hospital with…Read more…
This evening was our branch AGM held in central London. It was a hybrid, in person and zoom quorate meeting. I was pleased to have been re-elected (unopposed) as the branch Labour Link officer.
Our excellent guest speaker was David Lammy M…Read more…