With a week to go until the Budget, we’re clear that austerity won’t be over until the Chancellor starts to invest properly in the UK economyRead more…
On having missed the “People’s Vote” demonstration…
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Boleyn By Election canvass: Brexit demo dodgers, Daily Worker, ASB, West Ham FC, The Boleyn Pub….having a Labour Doorstep laugh
Picture collage from yesterday’s campaigning in Boleyn Ward by-election, Newham. There had been 3 teams out in the morning and I joined our truly exceptional candidate, Moniba Khan, for the 3pm session with as it happens, all West Ham CLP comrades.
Tw…Read more…
Activists and the Surveillance State: Learning from represession
Dear Colleagues,
Apologies for an absence since my last post. I have needed to concentrate on getting the first full thesis draft submitted This is now book and am working on editing and then (all being well) submitting the final version.
Also, the d…Read more…
Save Jobs At Cammell Lairds
Sign the petition to help save jobs in shipbuilding in the UK. Cammell Lairds has just won £619million’s worth of contracts to build the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) Ships, but in stead of…Read more…
10,000 Housing workers face threat to their pensions because: “The whole yardstick for measuring the cost of liabilities in pension schemes is broken”
This is my message to UNISON members of the Social Housing Pension Scheme, who will no doubt be worried about their families pension futures.
Inside Housing magazine has reported on this completely unwarranted attack on the Social Housing Pensio…Read more…
Labour needs to be pressed to put council housing at the top of its priorities list
MARTIN WICKS reflects on Labour’s housing policy in the wake of the party’s conference in Liverpool THE contradiction between Labour’s … MoreRead more…
Giving ‘gig’ workers rights isn’t radical, it would bring the UK up to international ‘norms’
19 October 2018
By John Hendy QC, Professor Keith Ewing and Carolyn Jones
This week has seen ‘gig’ workers and people on zero-hours contracts take a stand against low pay and insecure jobs, with…Read more…
Giving ‘gig’ workers rights isn’t radical, it would bring the UK up to international ‘norms’
19 October 2018
By John Hendy QC, Professor Keith Ewing and Carolyn Jones
This week has seen ‘gig’ workers and people on zero-hours contracts take a stand against low pay and insecure jobs, with…Read more…
‘Fear, hope and loss’
Britain’s divisions along cultural, education and economic lines were laid bare in a new wide-ranging study by anti-extremism campaigning group Hope Not Hate. The study, which is based on six…Read more…
‘Back the bill’
Unite members are being urged to write to their MPs and ask them to support legislation to reform outdated abortion law in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Next week, Labour MP for Hull…Read more…
‘Vigorous’ case
Unite will be making ‘a vigorous and well-argued response’ to the consultation on the future of wholly owned subsidiaries (WOSs) set up by NHS trusts and designed to avoid paying tax. Unite,…Read more…
Planned approach call
Unite, the UK’s largest union for car workers, cautioned that a call to bring forward the government’s target to ban new sales of petrol and diesel vehicles to 2032 could be undeliverable because of…Read more…
Is your accident book up-to-date?
The Health and Safety Executive has produced a new accident book – check yours is current and don’t let your employer claim GDPR stops you getting the information they needRead more…
Liam Fox's fantasy Brexit plan: dodgy trade deals and a race to the bottom on workers’ rights
Workers deserve a Brexit deal that delivers for them – not a hard Brexiteer fantasy that will put jobs, services and workers’ rights at riskRead more…
Newham Mayor Rokhsana Fiaz delivering on election manifesto promises and shares power
On Monday evening Newham Council Cabinet & Mayoral proceedings was important, historic, a little exciting yet also reassuringly mundane. In the finest tradition of UK Local Government.
There was a mass of important Council business to wade throug…Read more…
Changes to the way universal credit is introduced are a sensible move, says UNISON
UNISON welcomes assurances that ‘in work conditionality’ will be put on pause
The article Changes to the way universal credit is introduced are a sensible move, says UNISON first appeared on the…Read more…
‘Hostile environment’
Tens of thousands of sick and disabled people are owed more than £1bn in back benefits after they were underpaid by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP). The DWP said an “historic error”…Read more…
Let’s show racism the red card
Trade unions including Unite, schools, workplaces and individuals across the UK will be wearing red tomorrow (October 19) in a show of support for vital anti-racism campaigning that’s fighting back…Read more…
European unions call for solidarity with Glasgow women
Equal pay victory ‘would be an inspiration to millions of other women fighting for better pay’.
The article European unions call for solidarity with Glasgow women first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…