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This article here is a media hatchet job. Typical Guardian sneers and bile.
The truth is that we were never going to win. The defeat in 2010 was so massive that it would take more than 5 years to overcome.
Credit to Ed for keeping the Party togethe…Read more…
Until a few weeks ago the North West regional convenor, and proud of her UNISON background, on Tuesday Angie made her maiden speech in the House of Commons promising to ‘always tell it like it is’…Read more…
This is the report (below) I presented at tonight’s West Ham Ward monthly meeting.
After the Q&A we then had a fascinating debate about the General election result and the future direction of the Labour Party.
Afterwards some of us went to a join…Read more…
JEREMY CORBYN, MP (Islington Tribune)
…and a message from North of the Border we should note.
First, the good news. There is a Left-wing, anti-austerity candidate standing in the Labour Party’s…Read more…
As Scottish Labour regroups after the General Election, the temptation will be to focus on organisation and structure. Important though these are, the real question the party has to ask itself is -…Read more…
Colleagues,
In what will be the first of at least a couple of posts I feel the need to re-but the entirely inaccurate, biased and poorly researched attempts by the BBC recently to allege that Ruskin College is diminishing its founding principles throu…Read more…
Jeremy Corbyn has been as consistent as he has been persistent in thirty two years in Parliament as a socialist advocate for working people.
There are a thousand positive things I want to say about his decision to seek nominations in the election for Labour Leader, but for now I shall say just…Read more…
The latest trade union membership figures and statistics published by the Department of Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) in its statistical bulletin shows union membership for 2014 in the UK…Read more…
This is a reminder about the survey that all UNISON members who are in Greater London region (and are part of the Applied political Fund APF – also known as Labour Link) received last week.
UNISON is I think the only union affiliated to the Labour Par…Read more…
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/trade-union-statistics-2014
The neither-good-nor-bad news is that UK trade union membership has been broadly static in the last year, according to the official data issued today.
Most of the movements, in absolu…Read more…
See my previous post here and this report was in the UNISON national efocus newsletter today.
“Demanding an apology
Filipino nurses – including many UNISON members – protested outside the offices of the Daily Mail at the weekend to demand an apology …Read more…
Angela made her first speech today at the House of Commons. I’ve asked Mark to upload this to YouTube so it can be shared. In the meanwhile here is her superb victory speech from 8 May. Everyone who knows Angela is so proud of her and what she has achi…Read more…
I was pleased to be able to join a determined march through Barnet’s unseasonable weather in support of today’s strike against privatisation.
Local disputes of strategic significance to wider groups within the union movement are taking place not only in by UNISON members at Barnet Council (and…Read more…
Facebook has reminded me of this post from last year as well. Read more…
WAITING for sporting chance. Palestinian team detained at border.
IT did not make the front-pages nor TV news here, unlike the arrests in FIFA, but there was a not unconnected incident on May…Read more…
My UNISON branch have agreed to composite (merge) this motion with similar ones at this years’ National Delegate Conference.
Millions of Brits face double trouble.
Firstly, employers are not putting enough into most pension schemes which means worker…Read more…
http://www.barnetunison.me.uk/?q=node/1579
Hundreds of UNISON members in the North London borough of Barnet are striking today and tomorrow in a dispute sparked by the Tory Council’s plans for the wholesale privatisation of Council services.
Barnet’s d…Read more…
Just a quick update, as I noted in a previous post Fidelity says it has “deliberately steered away from” addressing the question of scale/size/amount (or as they say “quantum”) of executive pay.
This hasn’t always been their view. It turns out that Fi…Read more…
On Thursday evening I went to help the Labour Party candidate for Tower Hamlets Mayor, John Biggs and was given a bundle of letters addressed to postal voters to deliver in and around Leman Street, Whitechapel. I didn’t really know this part of Tower H…Read more…
Stop the Tories ballot rigging proposals A letter to the Swindon Advertiser The parliamentary majority which the Tories won in the General Election was delivered by the undemocratic first past the post system (FPTP). Whilst they might be said to have a…Read more…