It’s time. To vote Rokhsana as your Labour candidate for Newham Mayor
Dear Member,
With less than 2 days to go there’s not much time left to vote for me as your Labour candidate for Mayor of Newham. Voting closes at 12:00 noon thi…Read more…
It’s time for a fresh start. Vote Rokhsana Fiaz as your Labour candidate for Mayor of Newham
Power surge
Unite’s new electric vehicle strategy was launched in Parliament today (March 14) and urges the UK government to emulate Germany and put the UK’s car industry in the fast lane of electric vehicle…Read more…
Duplicate Stewardship Code statements
A month or so back, I blogged that I had found several hedge funds using similar blurb in their Stewardship Code statements. This was off the back of digging into Carillion a bit. Then, when I looked a bit deeper at the GKN / Melrose bid, I found more …Read more…
Is Mental Health First Aid the answer? Depends on the question.
A lot of employers are introducing “Mental Health First Aid” (MHFA) training in the workplace. This involves trained Mental Health First Aiders, operating in a similar way to standard First Aiders.Read more…
Statement by Cllr Rokhsana Fiaz on plans by the current Newham Mayor to set up a private development company & give it £3 billion of our assets
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My statement on plans by the current Newham Mayor to set up a private development company & then give it our assets, value = £3bn. They could be our libraries, community centres, leisure centres and the council’s own office & stop me buildin…Read more…
‘Nothing has changed’
Chancellor Philip Hammond used his first Spring Statement to confirm the Tories will continue to reign down devastating austerity on the nation for the foreseeable future. Ignoring calls from…Read more…
Strike for ’21st century pensions’
A 1,000 workers employed by United Utilities in the north west of England will strike for two days in a pensions’ dispute which could see them thousands of pounds worse off in retirement. The…Read more…
Amey Liverpool Prison scandal
Unite is calling for a radical overhaul in the manner prison maintenance work is undertaken following revelations that two workers at Liverpool Prison were wrongly dismissed for raising safety…Read more…
Spring Statement leaves public services in a dark place, says UNISON
UNISON responds to the Chancellor’s Spring Statement
The article Spring Statement leaves public services in a dark place, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Women in the EU earned on average 16 percent less than men in 2016.
Lowest pay gap in Romania and Italy, highest in Estonia In 2016, the unadjusted gender pay gap stood at just over 16% in the European Union (EU). In other words, women earned on average 84 cents for…Read more…
Unions battle water company over pension closure
By Damian Fantato FT Advisor Trade unions have accused Anglian Water of “seeking industrial unrest” over the closure of its defined benefit pension scheme. Unite, Unison and the GMB held…Read more…
The Chancellor offered no light at the end of the tunnel for working people
Today we are asked to celebrate almost non-existent improvements in the public budget.Read more…
“Newham mayoral hopeful calls for vote on scrapping role” Guardian
Rokhsana Fiaz is challenging Sir Robin Wales, the mayor of the London borough since 2002
“A referendum should be held on scrapping the directly elected mayoral system used in the London borough where the Olympics was held, according the woma…Read more…
Why ownership matters
Ownership gets too little attention in industrial policy and in public service reform. Richard Leonard, in his first Leader’s speech at the Scottish Labour Party conference, put some clear red water…Read more…
“Shameful wealth raid”
At a time when years of austerity have slammed households who are struggling to make ends meet, a new analysis has shown large multinational companies are paying substantially less tax since the…Read more…
Reject bid call
Unite today (March 12) urged shareholders to reject Melrose’s latest bid for GKN and repeated calls for the business secretary Greg Clark to intervene in the debt-fuelled takeover bid on grounds of…Read more…
Every Child Matters
UNISON members in the fostering recruitment team at Manchester City Council talk about their task
The article Every Child Matters first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Q. If the books are balanced, why are the government cutting public services for five more years?
A. Because austerity has failed.Read more…
Introducing the new ISO45001 safety standards
Over the past few years, the TUC, along with the European and International Trade Union Confederations, has campaigned against a proposed new standards for health and safety management systems.Read more…