Early day motion on Glencore tabled in UK House of Commons Sign EDM 764 to support Glencore workers Glencore, the global mining company, claims to respect human rights, community culture, collective…Read more…
“Stand Up For Labour” Theatre Royal Straford East Monday 9 March
West Ham and Ilford North CLPs are hosting that biggest ever Stand Up for Labour event at Stratford’s famous Theatre Royal on 9 March. You can book your seats here to attend a fantastic night of comedy to raise money for Labour.
Top comedians Sarah Pascoe and Arthur Smith, famous for both stand-up…Read more…
Stop TTIP – the Trojan Treaty
#noTTIP Many hundreds of campaigners, including a contingent of UNISON activists, protested in Brussels over the past two days. The demonstration coincided with the latest round of talks on the…Read more…
We can take care of our enemies, but have to watch out for some “friends”
JOSHUA BONEHILL-PAINE. Will he come to London if not ‘otherwise detained’?
IT had to happen some time, I suppose.
After all the excitement over murders in Paris, with Home Secretary…Read more…
UNISON Greater London Regional AGM election results 2015
The Evil Ones were crushed. The election result in today’s London regional council AGM was the 10th victory in a row for the forces of light and reason against the Ultra left and their supporters.
Clear proof that the mass of ordinary unison members a…Read more…
What a Waste: Corporate Power and One Nation Labour
Colleagues,
During last night’s Newsnight Emily Maitlis didn’t have to work too hard to get Ed Balls to blather nonsense about Labour’ special relationship with big business. So poor was Balls’ performance that shame and humiliation has…Read more…
Register the missing voters – mobilise our members to vote
http://action.hopenothate.org.uk/page/content/democracy-in-crisis/
This morning’s meeting of the UNISON Greater London Regional Council has just agreed a worthy motion on mobilising for the General Election.
The first step must be to encourage voter re…Read more…
Extract from Len McCluskey’s Speech To Unite Officers and Organisers, Birmingham, February 2nd.
80 Richest Own Same Wealth As Half The World
How on earth did we allow this to happen? Read more…
Voter registration: every vote really does count
This Thursday (5 February) is National Voter Registration Day: every missing vote could have an impact on who gets the keys to Downing StreetRead more…
Rounding up the Festival – bar one!
The Morning Star have today rounded up a few of my reviews (and one by FairPley’s Stephen Wright) into a compilations piece, here. The review for Canzionere Grecanico Salentino/Complete has…Read more…
The perils of blogging…
http://www.grayee.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/london-unison-regional-council-agm-2015.html?m=1
In the eight and a half years in which I have been interrupting your blameless surfing of the internet with my meanderings I have sometimes been made aware of the…Read more…
Keir Hardie Centenary Year – Monday 9 Feb 2015 at Westminster Hall
I cannot believe it but I have a clash on the 9th and will not be able to make this celebration of Keir Hardie, the first ever independent Labour MP at Westminster Hall.
Keir become the MP for West Ham South on 4 July in 1892
Hopefully, someon…Read more…
The case for fully devolving Housing Benefit
UNISON’s case for the full devolution of Housing Benefit has been supported by the respected think tank IPPR. Scotland needs all the policy levers to effectively address our housing crisis.
The…Read more…
Vultures circling over Police Staff
Metropolitan Police proposals to transfer 500 ‘business services’ staff in human resources, payroll and procurement to a new company Shared Services Connected Ltd, (75% owned by French multinational…Read more…
Seeing through “transparency”
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-government-transparency-code-2014
Tomorrow is the last date by which local authorities must publish certain data as specified in the Local Government Transparency Code.
“Transparency” is one of those wor…Read more…
Boots the tax dodgers
The latest attempt by the Tories to attack Ed Miliband has backfired.
The Billionaire Italian boss of Boots the Chemist, Stefano Pessina. told the Sunday Torygraph if Labour politicians acted in the way that they spoke “it would be a catastrophe”.
It turns out that the billionaire does not pay…Read more…
Greece and the 1953 agreement on German debt
Generally speaking this is a niche blog of interest to the handful of us who are fascinated by what is happening in our workplaces (particularly in the public sector) and to our trade union and labour movement.
However, our local action takes place in a global context and – just now – it is…Read more…
Workers walk out at oil refineries across USA
Members of the United Steelworkers who work in oil refineries and chemical plants have walked out at nine sites across the USA – beginning strikes aimed at putting pressure oil companies to…Read more…
The cleaners and the oligarchs
Why solidarity with Syriza against the EU leaders is crucial If anybody can remember a new Finance Minister (anywhere in the world) beginning his first press conference by announcing he is going to reinstate the cleaners made redundant by the previous …Read more…