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UNISON National Executive Council elections – the case for unity on the left

Jan 19, 2021By Jon's union blog

I will blog further about the content of the Returning Officer’s report into the UNISON General Secretary election in due course (regular readers of this Blog – Sid and Doris Blogger – will appreciate that my modesty makes me uncomfortable with the obs…Read more…

Jan 19, 2021Jon's union blog

Outstanding complaints cast a shadow over UNISON General Secretary election result

Jan 13, 2021By Jon's union blog

Christina McAnea has been elected General Secretary of UNISON and deserves congratulations on her victory and best wishes for the challenges she will be leading UNISON members to face. The candidate I voted for, rank and file challenger Paul Holme…Read more…

Jan 13, 2021Jon's union blog

Looking back – and forward – with hope

Jan 1, 2021By Jon's union blog

 
This could have been the worst year just gone. It wasn’t just the global pandemic which took my father’s life. After being diagnosed with cancer in 2018 and nearly dying of sepsis in 2019 I was told in 2020 that my cancer was now advanced and th…Read more…

Jan 1, 2021Jon's union blog

New Year’s Dishonour

Dec 31, 2020By Jon's union blog

It being New Year’s Eve I am intending to attend the Labour Grassroots online party in order to look back at one very minor aspect of the awful year now passing, associated with one rather minor petty bureaucrat who brought a little tedium and, in some…Read more…

Dec 31, 2020Jon's union blog

Campaign for Zero Covid in the New Year?

Dec 29, 2020By Jon's union blog

Your humble blogger has added my name – for what it’s worth – to the campaign for Zero covid. Labour movement activists cannot remain simple spectators as we head towards the second year of a global pandemic which has cost tens of thousands of lives an…Read more…

Dec 29, 2020Jon's union blog

Strike Map – making it easier to support workers in struggle

Dec 24, 2020By Jon's union blog

As an Xmas present to regular readers of this blog (Sid and Doris Blogger) here is a link to an excellent new site – Strike Map.
This is an excellent initiative to collate in one place online information, submitted by workers, on strike action being ta…Read more…

Dec 24, 2020Jon's union blog

Schooling the politicians?

Dec 23, 2020By Jon's union blog

It is some years now since your blogger was the parent of school aged children, but I remember all too well the challenge of arranging leave commitments and finding childcare to cover school holidays and closures. 
Nevertheless, given the accelera…Read more…

Dec 23, 2020Jon's union blog

Campaign to ban nuclear weapons in 2021

Dec 22, 2020By Jon's union blog

86 nations have signed up to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. 51 states have ratified the Treaty – but the UK has done neither, which is why the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is campaigning to get the UK Government to support the Tr…Read more…

Dec 22, 2020Jon's union blog

Don’t forget Western Sahara

Dec 21, 2020By Jon's union blog

 

As one of a number of parting shots to the world community, the Trump administration broke ranks with international consensus (and UN resolutions) by unilaterally recognising Morocco’s lengthy occupation of the territory of the Western Sahara.
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Dec 21, 2020Jon's union blog

UNISON General Secretary election – a lesson from history about how the Union handles complaints (relying on providence whilst questioning provenance)…

Dec 20, 2020By Jon's union blog

 
We are awaiting the results of the election for UNISON General Secretary. The lengthy delay between the close of the ballot and the timetabled date for the announcement of the vote has presumably been set to allow time for a full investigation i…Read more…

Dec 20, 2020Jon's union blog

Making sure local government pension funds are not supporting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land

Dec 19, 2020By Jon's union blog

In amongst all the other things that have happened this year, looking back, an important victory for local government – and for local government workers – was won back in April (on a day when I was somewhat preoccupied) – when the Supreme Court release…Read more…

Dec 19, 2020Jon's union blog

Labour supporting Reparations

Dec 18, 2020By Jon's union blog

 

Yesterday it was a pleasure to chair a meeting of the General Committee (GC) of Brighton Pavilion Labour Party which had been convened (by earlier decision of the GC) to work through a backlog of motions submitted by branches over recent months…Read more…

Dec 18, 2020Jon's union blog

Lemmings cleared to build third runway to cliff edge?

Dec 17, 2020By Jon's union blog

The Supreme Court decision to clear the way towards a third runway at Heathrow can’t really be legally wrong. That is rather the point of having a “supreme” court – and what the word “supreme” means in this context (as opposed to any other context).
Th…Read more…

Dec 17, 2020Jon's union blog

For Labour Party members – what happens in Scotland matters in England (and Wales)

Dec 16, 2020By Jon's union blog

Among the legacies of New Labour in Government were a series of partial and unfinished constitutional innovations, including (for example) limited reform of the House of Lords (to remove voting rights from most, but not all, hereditary peers, leaving a…Read more…

Dec 16, 2020Jon's union blog

Labour Party democracy and the role of the General Secretary

Dec 15, 2020By Jon's union blog

 

This is a cross-posting of a piece I have written for LabourHub in relation to the election of the General Secretary of the Labour Party. (I would recommend that readers have a look at LabourHub regularly.)
Perceptive readers (Sid and Doris Eag…Read more…

Dec 15, 2020Jon's union blog

The ConDem Christmas Carol – ten years on…

Dec 14, 2020By Jon's union blog

 

It’s that time of year I suppose, so here is a reminder of a seasonal song from ten years ago, as students began the first phase of years of struggle against the austerity politics of the then Coalition Government.
Merry Xmas to regular readers…Read more…

Dec 14, 2020Jon's union blog

Peace and Justice (in the world, if not – quite yet – in the Labour Party)

Dec 13, 2020By Jon's union blog

 
Today I was pleased to speak at the Labour Grassroots Zoom meeting, which focused on the problems being created by the correspondence from the General Secretary of the Labour Party purporting to issue “guidance” which steers Party members away f…Read more…

Dec 13, 2020Jon's union blog

Does Compass point in the right direction?

Dec 12, 2020By Jon's union blog

So Compass have launched “Compass Labour”  as part of a wider project to campaign to bring together a “progressive majority”. On the one hand this is an idea which pops up from time to time when it looks like the Tories cannot be defeated any…Read more…

Dec 12, 2020Jon's union blog

No industrial dispute will ever be lost in future – it will just lead to an “Australia-style” deal…

Dec 11, 2020By Jon's union blog

 
Regular readers of this blog (Sid and Doris Blogger) will realise that you are unlikely to read here any praise of the Tory Government – but anyone would have to admire the Prime Minister’s imaginative development of the English language.
Appare…Read more…

Dec 11, 2020Jon's union blog

New Times or new politics?

Dec 10, 2020By Jon's union blog

Open Labour have published an interesting little pamphlet, which I intend to read more fully, advocating what it calls a “progressive foreign policy”.To be precise it is titled “A Progressive Foreign Policy for New Times”. Yes, that’s right “New Times”…Read more…

Dec 10, 2020Jon's union blog
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