Picture collage from last night’s Full Council meeting in the Old Town Hall in Stratford. It was a short but emotive meeting. Starting off with the Newham Mayor, Rokhsana Fiaz, requesting that the meeting has a minute’s silence in memory of the young m…Read more…
#ONENHS #SamePaySameJob: UNISON Strike for Fair Pay for Compass Hospital Workers
WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?
We are hospital support staff working for Compass in St Helens & Knowsley and Blackpool NHS Trusts. We keep hospitals clean, cook for patients and keep them safe.
We are paid over £1000 less per year and have worse terms &a…Read more…
Newham Fabians London Labour Policy Conference
This photo college is from yesterday’s all day event in the Old Town Hall in Stratford. This the Fabians at their very best. Great speakers (apart from me – obviously), fair but effective Chairs of panels and genuine questions and real debate about the…Read more…
Indigenous Resistance Day – Showing Newham solidarity alongside Keir Hardie
Today is #IndigenousResistanceDay remembering the struggle against Colonialism in the Continent of America. (It used to be called “Columbus Day”). After @newhamfabians
event in the historic Old #Stratford town hall we gathered next to bust of avo…Read more…
Love your ward & how about “DustyMcDustFace”?
This afternoon as a local ward Councillor, I went to support this event and speak to residents, officers and volunteers. The weather was not kind but everyone seemed very enthusiastic about its aims of encouraging recycling and the “give & take mar…Read more…
“Labour MPs backing UNISON members taking strike action for fair pay. Solidarity with the Addaction strikers”
UNISON General Secretary, Dave Prentis, tweets his support & thanks Labour MPs Jo Platt, Yvonne Fovargue and Lisa Nandy for being on the picket line
Background to strike on UNISON NW Regional website
Drug and alcohol support workers employed by Lon…Read more…
World Homelessness Week Protest (and a desperately tragic death of a child)
This evening I went with the Newham Mayor, Rokhsana Fiaz and our Council Chief Executive, Althea Loderick to Stratford Broadway to visit the scene of a dreadful murder of a 16 year old boy.
At the same time there was an action near Stratford Station b…Read more…
Love Your Ward: Saturday 12 October 10-3pm at Brassett Point/David Lee Point E15
UNISON Jobs
The largest (and best in my opinion) union in the UK is recruiting (online here)
West Midlands: Local Organiser
UNISON is looking for enthusiastic, flexible and resourceful individuals to support our growing organisation Starting salary£28,343 per ann…Read more…
West Ham Labour campaigning for London Mayor, Sadiq Khan & getting ready for the next General Election
A busy long weekend delivering leaflets in various parts of the borough for the re-election of Labour London Mayor Sadiq Khan in May next year and promoting Labour to our residents.
Saturday and Sunday in West Ham ward with activists and with local Cl…Read more…
West Ham Ward Branch Meeting 3.10.19
A great picture (but a little fuzzy) from last weeks branch meeting when we had 22 members (and 2 young pioneers) attend.
It was Cllr John Whitworth’s turn to give his report to the branch (we take it in turns. Last month I gave a report and next mont…Read more…
Join with us on Local Service Champions Day – Thursday 17 October!
Hello,
Help us celebrate our local services and the people who deliver them!
Local government workers are true local champions. Working as a team, both on
the frontline and ‘behind the scenes’, they encourage our communities to
thr…Read more…
A visit to a factory that builds homes
Yesterday Cllr Shaban Mohammed and I went to visit a factory and warehouse operated by Ardmore Group in Enfield. We were invited to attend following a presentation I had heard on how factory built modular housing could help Newham Council tackle our ho…Read more…
Black History Month – Noorunissa Inayat Khan – Wartime British Secret Agent Murdered by the Nazi
Before she joined the SOE as a secret agent and was sent to occupied France, she worked with the mother of one of my branch UNISON stewards in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force as a Battle of Britain wireless operator
Never forget.
This brave woma…Read more…
Sadiq Khan: Delivering Change For All Londoners (and Social on Sunday)
I collected the latest Labour Mayoral and Assembly election leaflets this afternoon for distribution by Party members in Forest Gate North and West Ham wards. Until the General Election is actually declared (and some people are arguing that it should a…Read more…
POLICIES FOR A LABOUR LONDON – Newham Fabians event Saturday 12 October 2019 Stratford Town Hall
Next May London faces important elections for the Mayor of London and Lon Assembly. As a world city and a Labour city London has led the way in electing a Muslim Mayor. Sadiq Khan has spared no effort in shaping London for the better, by promoting prog…Read more…
Newham Housing Special on Community Radio “Revive FM 94.0”
This afternoon I was interviewed live on “Revive FM 94.0” by my radio host colleague, Shaban Mohammed & community activist, Armond Dean on Newham Council Housing Policies.
It was a really good discussion on the housing crisis in Newham and what we…Read more…
West Ham CLP Canvass & Social: 6 October 2019 at Cody Dock
James Asser re-elected to Labour Party NEC
Congratulations to my fellow Newham Councillor and Cabinet Colleague, James Asser, for being re-elected to the Labour Party National Executive Committee at our Conference last week.
James is a committed, experienced and hardworking Labour Movement act…Read more…
Newham Black History Month 1 Oct – 2 Nov 2019
“Join us this October for a month of poetry, talks, film screenings, exhibitions, oral history, singing and author events to explore Black History Month”.