Yesterday (Sunday) was very wet in East London, so no local walk. This picture is from a couple of weeks ago, when Gill and I went to sort out some family business in North Wales. We had time for a short but still demanding 2.5 mile walk via Ordi…Read more…
Disabled people should be asking employers if they are ‘fit to employ’
MSP Pam Duncan-Glancy tells UNISON’s disabled members conference that delegates work is ‘changing lives’
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Disabled people should be asking employers if they are ‘fit to employ’
MSP Pam Duncan-Glancy tells UNISON’s disabled members conference that delegates work is ‘changing lives’
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Disabled members look towards the general election
UNISON’s disabled members conference opened with a round-up of the year’s activity – including positive lobbying for disability equality
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Disabled members look towards the general election
UNISON’s disabled members conference opened with a round-up of the year’s activity – including positive lobbying for disability equality
The article Disabled members look towards the general election first appeared on the UNISON National site.
AI Summit is dominated by Big Tech and a “missed opportunity”, civil society orgs tell PM
More than 100 civil society organisations from across the UK and world have branded the government’s AI Summit as “a missed opportunity”. In an open letter to Rishi Sunak they warn the “communities and workers most affected by AI have been marginalise…Read more…
Good Bye to the East Ham Spoons
On Thursday evening after Pension committee, a couple of us went across the road from East Ham Town Hall to “The Miller’s Well” for some food and a drink. While many people are for good reasons anti-Wetherspoons’s (due to the right wing views of one of…Read more…
Updated: IF Metall members in Sweden strike at Tesla – unions line up in support
Over 120 Tesla mechanics in Sweden have commenced strike action after the company refused to agree to union recognition and collective bargaining. It is expected that sales staff who are members of the Unionen union will strike this coming week. … Continue reading Read more…
TUC Regional Council & then “on the knocker” in Plaistow North
Today was a Labour Movement day. In the morning I went as a UNISON delegate to the TUC London, East and South East Regional Council meeting at Congress House. It was good to be back in person at these meetings. There was an important panel d…Read more…
Review: Be Useful: Seven tools for life, by Arnold Schwarzenegger
This book got a surprisingly good review from The Guardian and as one who likes to read the occasional personal productivity / self-help books, I thought – why not give the Terminator a go? Here’s…Read more…
Review: Lenin’s Last Struggle, by Moshe Lewin
Moshe Lewin was certainly one of Lenin’s admirers. Though this short book is anti-totalitarian and sympathetic to Trotsky, it is surprisingly uncritical of Lenin on key issues. But it is clear from reading it that…Read more…
West Ham Ward Councillor surgeries – Saturdays 10am-1pm in Vicarage Lane Community Centre
This is a draft poster of our advice surgeries. All residents welcome, no appointment necessary. The three of us take it in turns and my next one will be a week tomorrow Saturday 4 November. Email the Mayor for an invite to her surgery. Read more…
‘Bizarre and deeply disappointing’
The following article is a follow-up story to a Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) feature we re-published yesterday, which you can view here. The head of the independent watchdog for immigration has criticised the Home Office for failing to publish a promised review of the UK’s seasonal worker scheme. David Neal, the government-appointed independent chief […]
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‘Pushed to the brink’
More than 1,300 Unite members working for bus company Go North East will embark on all-out continuous strike action from Saturday (October 28) in a determined fight for fair pay and conditions. Their latest brave stand follows two weeks of strike action that ended last week (October 20) and a resounding rejection of a new […]
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Why global solidarity and action matter for decent work in the care economy
Care matters to us all. We all want good quality cradle to grave care for ourselves and our loved ones. This is only possible if the workers delivering care services have good pay and conditions.
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UAW Reach Tentative Deal With Ford’s In Big 3 Dispute
The United Auto Workers (UAW) union say they have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract with Ford’s – the first of Detroit’s Big Three car manufacturers to negotiate a settlement to strikes joined by 45,000 workers since mid-September. … Continue reading Read more…
Proud to be backed by UNISON – Joel Bodmer for Croydon East
Congratulations to Joel for winning the UNISON Labour Link nomination. In our roles as elected Chair and Vice Chair of Greater London Regional Labour Link committee, myself and Yvonne Green (who happens to be a Croydon East Labour activist) interviewed…Read more…
Black History Month awards gala
Unite hosted its first ever Black History Month awards gala on Tuesday (October 24) in Birmingham. The event drew more than a hundred of Unite’s BAEM reps and activists and paid tribute to their vital contributions to the trade union movement. Addressing guests in her speech, Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said, “What’s taken us […]
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