Well said Clem. Remember there is a difference between rich people doling out charity to please their conscience and working people showing solidarity with their widow’s mites. Read more…
Four week strike to hit sales of Barbour jackets, warns Unite
Barbour jackets at renowned retailers such as Harrods, Harvey Nichols and John Lewis could be in short supply over the coming weeks because of a four week strike warned Unite. The warning came as the…Read more…
TUC New Year message – 2015 must bring living standards boost as average wage fell £500 in 2014
“In her New Year message, TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady reveals that the real value of the average full-time wage fell by £487 in 2014 (from new TUC analysis – full details below). This means that the average full-time employee wage has fallen in real terms by £2,509 since 2010 – about…Read more…
Why Israel is losing the battle in the world’s trade unions
Text of my presentation at Limmud, University of Warwick, 29 December 2014 My name is Eric Lee and I’m speaking to you tonight on behalf of TULIP – Trade Unions Linking Israel and Palestine….Read more…
UKIP Man Sends Out A Xmas Gift to Workers
OUTSIDE City Links depot, Motherwell.
TWO items of generosity to warm the heart in the season of goodwill, and good cheer, and betoken – for somebody perhaps – a happy and good new year. …Read more…
Election Address for Greater London UNISON Regional Finance Convenor
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Today is ‘Let’s remember the Daily Mail supported Hitler’ day!
“It has been announced that December 28th is from now on to be the day when we should all remember that just prior to the Second World War, English newspaper the Daily Mail was actively supporting the Nazi dictator Hitler…..
The decision to have …Read more…
British Foreign Policy in the Middle East – Newham Compass
Advance notice of the next Newham Compass event on Tuesday 17th February
“British Foreign Policy in the Middle East”
with Mike Gapes, MP for Ilford South.
I have a clash (my UNISON branch AGM) so will not be able to make it. Which is a shame not l…Read more…
Referendum shows weren’t the highlight.
The Morning Star asked me to review the cultural side of the struggle for 2014. This is what I felt were the key moments of an eventful year. Next year already looks as if it too, is shaping up to be…Read more…
“Protect Our Pensions” – Tories latest attempt to destroy peoples futures
While driving today I listened to “Money Box” on Radio 4. The programme was about investing a windfall. Experts warned about all the financial rogues and con merchants out there who will rob people out of their money. It remind…Read more…
A walk to Deganwy Castle and our common history of savagery
This morning I went for a Boxing Day walk from Conwy to Deganwy Castle. Trying to work off some of the xmas excess and build an appetite for this evenings traditional cold meats, pickles and baked potatoes.
I haven’t been to the remains of Deganw…Read more…
All Souls to Austerity, or ‘Gilded Age’ for Some?
IT might be Christmassy, if it had some decorations. But if it looks cold in this picture, now its worse -the lights are off, and the building’s up for sale.
NO, this isn’t the Pottins family…Read more…
Bargaining Power To The People
By Leo Gerard USW International President During the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave workers a New Deal, raising wages and employment. Earlier this month, in the sparsely…Read more…
Merry Christmas to one and all
Merry Christmas folks. Photo Wansted flats 2012. Read more…
A Christmas walk “In the Valley of the Elwy”
“Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales,All the air things wear that build this world of Wales…” Gerard Manley Hopkins
Off message but today I went for a truly beautiful walk in the “Switzerland of North Wales” the Elwy Valley.
Walk …Read more…
Crown Holdings Shareholders Warned Of Stock Price Losses Due To Toronto Strike
Workers forced on strike in Toronto by giant U.S.-based can-maker Crown Holdings, Inc. (CCK) are warning the company’s shareholders that Crown’s failure to settle the now 15-month labour…Read more…
Merry Red Crimbo
This is my favourite Christmas video. I have stopped sending cards and instead have donated money to further world revolution (aka Children in Need).
Merry Crimbo to all my Labour Party and trade union comrades and here is hoping for a change of …Read more…
UNISON | Special local government conference 2015 24 March!
http://www.unison.org.uk/about/events-and-conferences/national-conferences/special-local-government-conference-2015/
The challenge now is how to use the Special Conference on Tuesday 24 March. We need not only to consider the agenda for the Conference itself but also how we use this occasion to…Read more…
Tenants’ Win, and Russel Vindicated
I’VE never been a fan of Russel Brand. Just not my cup of tea. I’ve never watched his programme, didn’t like his treatment of Andrew Sachs or talk about “booky-wook”, and I went as far as to…Read more…
Support Locked Out Workers At Sherwin Alumina, Texas
The holiday season is upon us, and unfortunately, some of our brothers and sisters are going without paychecks because of attacks from huge corporate companies. This includes United Steelworkers and…Read more…