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On Wednesday 4th February 2015 at 10am it is the Annual General Meeting of the Greater London UNISON Regional Council.
It will take place at the Holiday Inn Conference room, Coram Street (across the road from Russell Square tube station). Doors open a…Read more…
WHAT is going on about “fracking”? Last week MPs overwhelmingly rejected a bid to impose a moratorium, suspending fracking for shale gas, although the government agreed to Labour proposals for…Read more…
When will the Labour Party learn a bit of municipal history? Announcements trumpeted as some kind of radical overhaul of bus regulations by the party appear to be yet another neo-liberal experiment…Read more…
You tell us
It looks bad for our cause.
The darkness gets deeper. The powers get less.
Now, after we worked for so many years
We are in a more difficult position than at the start.
But the enemy…Read more…
BMW opened a brand new distribution facility near the old one where Teamsters Local 495 fought to save 70 members’ jobs a couple of years ago — and won. For a while it looked as if BMW was…Read more…
–>My Review of the Celtic Connections concert featuring Luka Bloom and Bella Hardy was in Wednesday’s Morning Star. it can be found here.Another concert that the Star hasn’t had the space…Read more…
I have just enjoyed reading two very different posts on the Green Party and their policies.
The first was from the never shy nor retiring Kitty Jones on
“You’d have to be Green to believe the Green Party: two more lies exposed”.
While the other post by Steve Hilditch “The grass isn’t any greener…Read more…
Blogging is light to non-existent currently, but here are three nuggets worth flagging up.
1. Pretty incredible win for investors worried about climate change – Shell has recommended that shareholders vote FOR their resolution at this year’s AGM…Read more…
“Tomorrow is national campaign day. Lyn Brown MP and Harriet Harman, Deputy Leader of the Labour party, invite you to the opening of the new campaign centre for Bermondsey and Old Southwark – followed, of course, by a canvassing session for Labour’s ca…Read more…
This is a fantastic picture from last weeks’ London UNISON Labour Link “Rights at Work” event for our members who live in Ilford North CLP. The event was organised by Lilian Greenwood MP (who use to be a UNISON national officer and is a great friend of…Read more…
http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/news_and_events/pcs_comment/index.cfm/video-mark-serwotka-outlines-plan-for-pcs-future
The Tories (supported by their Lib Dem hangers on) are rehearsing – in the civil service – for the onslaught they intend to unleash upon all…Read more…
This week’s pay offer for NHS staff in England has brought two issues into sharp focus …Read more…
Councils in the most deprived areas of England have been hardest hit by cuts to their funding, Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee has said. Austerity cuts have not been applied equally since…Read more…
Credit where it’s due. Justin Tomlinson is consistent. He consistently attempts to mislead his electorate in relation to the employment situation in the town. Once again he is trying to con people by presenting the Job Seekers Allowance numbers as the unemployment level. Why does he continue…Read more…
Yesterday I went to a Holocaust Memorial Day, ceremony organised by Newham Council which took place in the Old Town Hall in Stratford, E15.
The hall was packed with residents and pupils from local schools.
It began with a choir singing a sp…Read more…
This is going to be a really interesting event. It clashes with my UNISON branch AGM. Which is a real shame as Mike is always an entertaining speaker and was the former chair of the foreign affairs select committee. Read more…
Today’s GDP figures look good on an annual basis, but they hide a slowdown in the last two quarters that starts to look like a trend.
GDP, grew 0.5% in the fourth quarter of the year, compared with…Read more…
I’M always a bit wary about stories that claim to be reporting “Jewish outrage” about something or other. Not that Jews haven’t the right to be outraged about anything. But too often the…Read more…
http://www.unison.org.uk/planned-nhs-strike-suspended
Ahead of Thursday’s planned strike action, the NHS trade unions (led by UNISON) have suspended that and any further action whilst members are consulted on an offer which our Head of Health describes…Read more…