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This election finishes 5pm Friday 15 May so there is still time to check your paperwork, find your postal ballot paper and vote.
I am standing for re-election as a National Executive Committee member for Community (Housing Associations …Read more…
http://www.unison.org.uk/news/general-secretarys-blog/your-voice
Our General Secretary was right to affirm, in his post-election message, that UNISON must stand firm for our members in the face of the new Tory Government.
We face a double onslaught, in…Read more…
Colleagues,
Without doubt the 2015 general election outcomes present organised labour with considerable short and long-term challenges.
Len McCluskey’s statement represents, I feel, an important state of preparedness in what will clearly be a d…Read more…
This is the picture of the West Ham Labour Party election count team from 04.30 am this morning with our two successful candidates, Lyn Brown MP and Cllr Charlene McLean. This was at the Olympic Velopark.
Lyn was re-elected as our Member of Parliament…Read more…
The general election is over and I just want to thank UNISON members, activists and staff for all they did on behalf of UNISON before and during the campaign.Read more…
It’s a lot worse than I thought.
I think the Labour result leaves us in a real mess. The lack of progress in England will strengthen the argument that Labour was pulling too far to the Left. I don’t agree, but that is the claim that will be made. In c…Read more…
This isn’t a good country to wake up in this morning. The Tories are riding rampant, blue in tooth and claw.
It’s a little early for detailed reflection but we seem to be reaping the bitter harvest sown by a labour movement, the political wing of which peddled “austerity-lite” whilst our…Read more…
Colleagues,
Just a quick post as I am tied up preparing for teaching this weekend, and I want to follow the news of the early outcomes of today’s general election in the UK.
So much hangs in the balance for the British labour movement of the election…Read more…
The polls are open until 10 o’clock tonight – so if you’ve not already voted, please get down there and have your sayRead more…
Vote for fairer taxes
such as a Bankers tax, £2 million Mansion tax & a 50p tax rate for the rich,
Vote to abolish
the Bedroom tax and the Health & Social Care Act (NHS privatisation),
Vote to increase
the number of nurses and faster treatment for cancer and access to your GPs
Vote…Read more…
I am not of course superstitious in the slightest (touch wood) but the during the final pre election Ilford North doorstep tonight, our team of mostly Westhammers, got a little wet and blown around by the wind but we also saw some stunning lucky Rainbo…Read more…
The polling stations open at 7am tomorrow and we’ll all get the chance to actually vote after what seems like one of the longest election campaigns in living memoryRead more…
Tomorrow is election day here in Britain, and that headline is unlikely to grace the front page of any of our newspapers on the morning after. But it’s a real headline and it describes what…Read more…
Of all the elections I have been involved with this has to be one of the worst. The big issues that should have been debated have been swamped by the process of coalitions, deals and the banality of…Read more…
Why I’ll be voting for that tomorrow and why I urge everyone else to do so as well.Read more…
Collage from campaigning yesterday evening in East Village, Stratford led by Council candidate Charlene Mclean, ably assisted by Young Pioneer Esme.
This is the email Charlene has sent this morning to all West Ham Labour Party members as our CLP Chair…Read more…
UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis “tells it as it is”.
After five years of pain there has been very little gain. If the Tories are re-elected on Thursday, there will be more years of painful cuts, hitting the the poorest areas the most.
So Vote L…Read more…
This is the most important election for a generation. We all need to play our part in getting the vote out – especially among union membersRead more…
#GE2015 Most of Scotland’s election candidates who responded to the People’s Assembly Scotland’s petition against austerity have also signed up to it, pledging “to commit themselves to oppose all…Read more…
Both West and East Ham Labour met up today at Green Street in a sea of red for a final stall with our Parliamentary candidates, Lyn Brown & Stephen Timms.
Life time Labour supporter, 92 year old Second World War hero, Ron Higgins, who surviv…Read more…