Goverment must act immediately for primary schools
The article Ministers must delay school reopening by a fortnight, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
An Awful New Year Day Calamity
This morning my Councillor colleague, John Whitworth and I, went to West Ham Cemetery to lay some flowers at the memorial to 26 boys who died in a fire exactly 131 years ago. The boys lived in a massive workhouse for children nearby in Forest …Read more…
Top 10 most read UniteLive articles of the year
On New Year’s Day today (January 1), UniteLive highlights our most read articles of 2020 — and what a year it’s been. From holding bad employers to account, to likewise calling out…Read more…
Video of the year – Who are the real heroes?
Every day on UniteLIVE during the festive period, we highlight our videos of the year. Today, we feature a film from May, when Unite first began its campaign to ensure a decent pay rise for…Read more…
‘Now I can open the curtains’
Sometimes it take a full-blown crisis to reveal just how badly our institutions are failing those who need them most. First introduced in 2013, Universal Credit, the Tory government’s flagship…Read more…
Looking back – and forward – with hope
This could have been the worst year just gone. It wasn’t just the global pandemic which took my father’s life. After being diagnosed with cancer in 2018 and nearly dying of sepsis in 2019 I was told in 2020 that my cancer was now advanced and th…Read more…
Happy New Year / Blwyddyn Newydd Dda: Despite Covid, Brexit & Boris – Let’s raise a toast to a better 2021
Photo from the Fyfield village bridge across the River Roding overlooking the 13th Century Mill pond.
New Year’s Dishonour
It being New Year’s Eve I am intending to attend the Labour Grassroots online party in order to look back at one very minor aspect of the awful year now passing, associated with one rather minor petty bureaucrat who brought a little tedium and, in some…Read more…
NHS employers must “dig deep” to avoid spiral of exhaustion for health workers
Staff must not be left to burn out
The article NHS employers must “dig deep” to avoid spiral of exhaustion for health workers first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Video of the year – Durham Miners’ Gala
Every day on UniteLIVE during the festive period, we highlight our videos of the year. Today, we feature a film from July, when we heard from Unite general secretary Len McCluskey about the Durham…Read more…
Heroes and zeroes of the year
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, UniteLIVE has regularly highlighted the ‘heroes and zeroes’ of this crisis. Today we present you the top heroes of the year, alongside the worst zeroes, in no…Read more…
A time like no other, a union like no other
It has been a year like no other. From the moment the coronavirus hit our shores, this union was on the front foot. Unite was always going to have to go into hand-to-hand battle against this…Read more…
Lola 4 Kent PCC
My branch UNISON member, Lola Oyewusi, is standing for election as the Labour & Co-operative candidate to be the next Kent Police Crime Commissioner. Her campaign launch is on Sunday 10 January 2020.
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Reopening delay is sensible to make school mass testing work, says UNISON
Primary opening should also be held back
The article Reopening delay is sensible to make school mass testing work, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Pte: EDGAR JOHN MARKILLIE – 7th FIELD AMBULANCE – KIA GALLOPILI 1915
PRIVATE EDGAR JOHN MARKILLIE
Service Number 944 Australian Infantry A.I.F 13th Battalion Killed in Action9 August 1915
Age 24 years Son of John Adam & Frances Julia Markillie 110 Dalmeny Avenue, Norbury
Buried 7th FIELD AMBULANCE C…Read more…
Oxford vaccine approval is welcome news, says UNISON
Approval will allow priority for NHS and care staff
The article Oxford vaccine approval is welcome news, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Video of the year – Our proud rural history
Every day on UniteLIVE during the festive period, we highlight our videos of the year. Today, we feature a film from July, where Unite general secretary Len McCluskey sends a message about…Read more…
Health warning – crony-virus goes pandemic
It’s an ill wind which blows nobody good, as they say. But when the government is happy to reward their ‘mates’ with lucrative contracts, while at the same time refusing to give our public sector…Read more…
Cycling to Cutty Sark
Off message. I decided to try and ditch my “fair weather only” cycling reputation by biking in the winter gloom and cold to the Cutty Sark in Greenwich. My favourite route to the south of the borough is via West Ham Park and the Greenway. Across …Read more…
Campaign for Zero Covid in the New Year?
Your humble blogger has added my name – for what it’s worth – to the campaign for Zero covid. Labour movement activists cannot remain simple spectators as we head towards the second year of a global pandemic which has cost tens of thousands of lives an…Read more…