Oppose U.S. Air Strikes Against Syria! No to Escalating the Military Conflict in Syria! Hands Off Syria! Thursday, April 6 — 10:30 pm The U.S. has engaged in criminal activity by launching tomahawk…Read more…
‘Desperate’ NHS funding plea
There’s no doubt that the NHS is under pressure as it faces rising demand and chronic government underfunding. But seemingly every week new figures reveal just how massive the scale of the…Read more…
‘We will not stand by’
One of the greatest problems afflicting construction workers is the problem of undercutting. Greedy bosses look to boost their profits by exploiting workers by paying them below industry…Read more…
Where ‘vultures’ dare?
Unite is seeking urgent assurances from Unilever bosses after its decision to sell off its margarine spreads business has put 200 jobs in Essex at risk. Responding to Unilever’s decision to…Read more…
Gerard Coyne’s Unite leadership campaign is about removing Corbyn and nothing else
John Corr Evolve Politics (on line news)- Let us be clear from the start. Support for Gerard Coyne’s campaign to lead Britain and Ireland’s largest trade union, Unite, has nothing to do with rescuing…Read more…
Change has to come
Hospitality workers are among the hardest working yet lowest paid, so it’s hardly surprising that low wages and unfair tipping practices are two of the biggest issues facing our members. After all,…Read more…
Deliveroo ‘doublespeak’
Unless you move to a foreign country, having to learn another language seems an unusual requirement for a job in a firm that specialises in delivering takeaways. But managers at gig-economy…Read more…
Deliveroo ‘doublespeak’
Unless you move to a foreign country, having to learn another language seems an unusual requirement for a job in a firm that specialises in delivering takeaways. But managers at gig-economy…Read more…
‘Betrayed and let down’
The workers at Norfolk turkey producers Bernard Matthews ‘feel betrayed and let down’, as 69 chicken production and 59 managerial job losses were confirmed. Unite said that the workers were…Read more…
Six years on, Dilnot is still an improvement and still not enough
Yesterday I attended a lecture by the economist Andrew Dilnot, hosted by the Resolution Foundation. The lecture was called “A lasting solution to the social care crisis”; it was effectively a relaunch of the proposals of the Dilnot Review. The Dilnot Review published its proposals in June of 2011,…Read more…
‘Height of hypocrisy’
Members of Unite and GMB will on Monday (April 10) take their campaign to prevent undercutting of wages in the UK, to Denmark where the companies responsible are based. The pay rates of UK…Read more…
Councillor report to West Ham Labour Party Ward 6 April 2017
Councillor Report to Ward 6 January to April 2017 WEST HAM WARD LABOUR PARTY
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Council Issues
Full Council January 30 2017At this meeting as a Councillor I had raised a question via the Chief Executiv…Read more…
UNISON NEC Elections 2017: Wales Vote Angela Roberts & Mark Fisher
Two great candidates! Read more…
Bike From Boleyn 22 April: Win Everton V West Ham tickets
At the West Ham Labour Branch meeting this evening, Boleyn Councillor, Veronica Oakeshott encouraged everyone to participate in this event.
“After a hugely successful inaugral ride, we’re delighted to say that Bike from Boleyn is back! Dress up i…Read more…
‘Culture of short-termism’
A new report on the NHS by the House of Lords calling for more long-term planning and funding for the health service was welcomed by Unite on Wednesday (April 5). The House of Lords Select…Read more…
No child should go hungry
Austerity harms every one of us but it is poorer children who bear the greatest brunt of the government’s funding cuts to public services – the UN published a damning report last year condemning…Read more…
A note on the economic impact of Roosevelt’s New Deal
This post is brief background to a longer piece that views Roosevelt’s economics through his impact on Washington D.C. The economic statistics show his initiatives brought the US great depression to a decisive end; they also stabilised the deterioration in the public sector finances. Yet the…Read more…
Ferry strikes go on
Travellers using the Woolwich Ferry face two-days of disruption later this month, as new strikes are announced in the long-running dispute over a bullying culture, and health and safety issues….Read more…
Brazilian unions protest for Lula and for justice
Last year’s legislative coup against the democratically-elected President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, was denounced by trade unionists in the country who predicted that the corrupt replacement…Read more…
Gender Pay Gap Information Regulations: Long on information, short on action
The UK’s gender pay gap stands at 18.1% and at the current rate this gap will not close for at least another 40 years. This means that the average woman has to wait nearly a fifth of a year (66 days) before she starts to get paid, compared to the average man. Today the…Read more…