ThCondemn the Israeli Killings of Palestinian People on Palestinian Land Day! Workers’ Weekly Mass March of Return 2018 Israeli army forces on March 30 shot and killed 17 Palestinians,…Read more…
Significance of University Lecturers Strike:
University Lecturers Strike to Defend their Pension Rights and Safeguard Higher Education March for Education passing through Whitehall en route to Parliament, March 14, 2018 Lecturers at 64…Read more…
Some reasons centrists continue to fail
Simon Wren-Lewis has a good blog up on Social Europe on the mistakes that centrists make. I’ve been thinking along similar lines, albeit with the aid of other people…!
1. Centrism is failing because is attacking its opponents morally rather than pol…Read more…
One last attempt to save NHS bursaries, says UNISON
Scrapping the bursary is deterring a whole generation of nurses
The article One last attempt to save NHS bursaries, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
West Ham Labour Grid: Only 27 days to go before the 2018 Newham local elections
“Only 27 days to go before the 2018 local elections… in which all 60 Newham Councillors will be elected as well as the directly elected mayor.Please join us in the next week to campaign, leaflet and canvass for your fantastic Labour council candidate…Read more…
Stop UK plc fire sale now call
Concerns over Melrose’s recent hostile takeover of GKN were highlighted this week (April 4) when financial analysts Moody’s said it would review GKN’s credit rating for a possible downgrade. …Read more…
Unite goes to school
It is now recess, which means MPs have packed up and returned to their constituencies, and it’s school’s out for the academic term too. That means a welcome break for Unite’s activists, who have…Read more…
‘Postcode lottery’
The first five years after birth are often considered the most important developmental stage in childhood and can strongly influence a person’s social mobility as an adult. It was under this widely…Read more…
‘Big brother’ bin strike off
Strikes by Thurrock council’s waste collection workers due to be begin next week (April 12) have been suspended following lengthy negotiations. The strikes involving 65 members of Unite…Read more…
Training overhaul call
Unite is calling for a radical overhaul in how construction training is undertaken, after unearthing a large increase in so called ‘dead end construction courses. A freedom of information…Read more…
France: Tens of thousands of public sector workers strike across France
Train drivers, teachers, nurses and air traffic controllers take to the streets to protest against Macron’s changes Angelique Chrisafis in Paris @achrisafis Thu 22 Mar 2018 17.47 GMTFirst published…Read more…
Just how powerful are France’s labour unions?
A view from Al jazeera Their capacity to organise paralysing strikes sets them apart from unions elsewhere, but is their influence declining? by Paul Fargues 1 Aug 2016 Demonstrators march in Paris…Read more…
French trade unions:
The Economist explains Why French trade unions are so strong By law, they play a big role in the running of big and medium-sized companies The Economist explains FRENCH unions are due to take to the…Read more…
Review: The Revenge of Analog – Real Things and Why They Matter, by David Sax
To be honest, I bought this book in a small, independent bookshop in San Francisco, where I spotted it while browsing a few days earlier, and not on Amazon. I read it as a paperback,…Read more…
“Antisemitism on the left”
This welcome post is by my fellow West Ham Labour Vice Chair, Josephine Grail on her personal blog.
“I have been troubled recently by a lot of the responses I have seen in my social media timelines to the antisemitism issues in the Labour party.
Firs…Read more…
Walking out of a Zionist Federation dinner
Those Labour politicians who supported the demonstration organised by the Board of Deputies against the Labour Party, did so on the grounds that they were standing in solidarity with “the Jewish community”. In fact there is no such thing as the Jewish …Read more…
New study shows 1,000 Sure Start children’s centres may have shut
‘Children’s centres have been left in limbo,’ says UNISON
The article New study shows 1,000 Sure Start children’s centres may have shut first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Violent crime is on the rise, but who is working to keep you safe?
Find out how many police officers, police staff and PCSOs you have in your area
The article Violent crime is on the rise, but who is working to keep you safe? first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
Blog: Every signing really matters
Now that Blaenau Gwent have become the first Welsh signatory to the charter, we hope this incentivises other councils to follow suit.
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MPs back TUC call for pension income overhaul
A heavyweight committee of MPs is the latest group to call for reforms to make it far easier for pension savers to access an income in retirement.Read more…