The Charity Aston-Mansfield is
seeking funding for its Newham LGBT Youth support group via a crowd funding campaign. They aim to raise £6,000 and have already donations from local football team Clapton Ultras after their Football vs Homophobia’ match. The crowd funding will last until the 11th…Read more…
Are Council pension funds being ripped off? File on 4
On Tuesday evening (and repeated 5pm today) the excellent investigative Radio 4 programme “File on 4” examined whether at the same time that Councils are suffering from massive Government cuts – their pension funds are also being ripped off by fund man…Read more…
Prof Prem Sikka on ‘How to Defeat Austerity?’ Video now online
‘There was absolutely no need for anything to do with austerity. It is really a political project which has been carried out in the UK for the last 30 or 40 years. It has eroded the purchasing power…Read more…
West Hammers helping out at Ilford North
After our street stall today in Stratford many West Ham Labour Party members went off to canvass in the marginal seat of Ilford North to support Wes Streeting as its future Labour MP.
We were split between two large local canvass teams. It was a…Read more…
West Ham Labour Party Stall – Stratford 2015
Today we had a West Ham Labour Party stall outside Stratford Shopping centre, giving out the ever popular Labour Party balloons to prospective voters under the age of 10 and leaflets to their parents on Labour plans for rent controls and protect the NH…Read more…
Northern Ireland says NO to Austerity
#M13 Over 50,000 public service workers, including UNISON members, across Northern Ireland took 24 hour all out strike action against austerity cuts yesterday. Education, health, transport and…Read more…
Speech: National Shop Stewards Network, Midlands conference
Thank you for this opportunity to address you. The CWU supports the promotion of a new shop stewards movement. The origin of this is a speech by the late Jack Jones, several years ago. He argued that…Read more…
Luca Visentini To Be New European TUC Head
Italian trade unionist Luca Visentini is the proposed successor to Bernadette Ségol as General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation. This week a meeting of the ETUC’s Executive…Read more…
LATEST: Crown Dispute: Ontario Appoints Expert To Investigate Strike
Ontario, Canada: Ontario Minister of Labour Kevin Flynn is appointing Morton Mitchnick to conduct an Industrial Inquiry Commission to facilitate a resolution in the dispute involving the United…Read more…
USW Reaches Tentative Agreement To Settle Oil Industry Strikes
The United Steelworkers (USW) has announced that it has reached a ‘tentative agreement’ on a new four-year contract with Shell Oil as a pattern agreement for the rest of the industry. 7000 oil…Read more…
Keep It Co-op (and Save our Political Voice)
I have been a member of the Co-operative Party (which shares values and seeks to advance the co-operative agenda by standing joint Parliamentary candidates with the Labour Party) for a number of years but have been a member of the Co-operative Group fo…Read more…
Unite Delegation To Support USW Sherwin Alumina Lock Out
Why Britain badly needs more women engineers and scientists
By Siobhan Endean, Unite National Officer for Equalities This week the UKs biggest trade union, Unite, is launching its guide to encourage more young women to take up skilled apprenticeships in…Read more…
Gers report shows Devo-Max is a gamble too far
The annual publication Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (Gers) has brought the debate over the merits of Full Fiscal Autonomy (FFA) or Devo-Max into sharp focus.
The report shows that in…Read more…
UNISON calls strike ballot at Barnet Council
I can do no better than reproduce the press release of the Barnet branch;UNISON, one of the UK’s largest trade unions, serving more than 1.3 million members, wrote to Barnet Council on11 March 2015 notifying them of our intention to conduct a stri…Read more…
Joined up public services – how do we unscramble marketisation?
Progressive, people centred reforms of public services by an incoming Labour Government will require more than good intentions writes Eunice Goes on the LSE blog. Decades of funding cuts,…Read more…
“Stand Up For Labour” at Theatre Royal Stratford East: Laughter and Politics
Hat tip to West Ham Labour blog for most of the above pictures from last nights hugely successful “Stand Up For Labour” comedy fund raiser. The event was sponsored by Greater London UNISON Link and raised money for the Ilford North and West Ham General…Read more…
Time to take a closer look at your pension
There are some big changes in pensions next month and they are not all good news.
Today I am in Orkney on the latest stage of a pensions tour that has included training up our excellent new…Read more…
We need to tackle asbestos in schools
More than 75% of schools in the UK contain asbestos – but the government is still dragging its feet over a report on the scale of the problem due last springRead more…
Speech: Mentoring Course for Women in the CWU
It’s fitting that we are holding this course today – the day after we celebrated International Women’s Day. The theme this year for International Women’s day is Make it Happen. We are told by the…Read more…