The £8m short term government loan for employee-owned Hatfield colliery, Yorkshire, is a welcome move by the government to protect hundreds of skilled jobs. But that such a loan is needed at all reflects the government’s failure to develop a long term strategy for UK coal in our energy mix,…Read more…
Brain washed morons pretending they are doing God’s work.
“We stand in solidarity with France against this evil attack by terrorists intent on attacking our democratic way of life & freedom of speech”. Well said Ed (Miliband). Read more…
Unions condemn the Charlie Hebdo killings
As crowds gathered in cities across France and beyond today, standing in solidarity with those attacked at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris, journalists’ unions expressed their shock and…Read more…
West Ham Labour January update – General Election just 120 days away (& debate on Syria)
“Happy 2015… It’s only seven days into the new year and already voters can’t have failed to notice there’s a General Election coming.
The Tories have already published a false dossier on Labour’s plans and the NHS is in crisis.
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UNISON National Executive Council elections – under starter’s orders…
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Radio 4 on illegal pay for home care
Some good news – over 10,000 people now have joined UNISON’s petition urging Vince Cable to name and shame the criminal care employers who are illegally denying up to 220,000 care workers…Read more…
Welcome to Barnet UNISON 2015
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Why?
http://www.allposters.com/-sp/A-Garland-for-May-Day-1895-Posters_i1864412_.htm
This link takes you to Walter Crane’s “Garland for the Workers” which expresses some of the hopes which I think our movement was created to keep alive.
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Fat Cat Tuesday
Today 6 January is “Fat Cat Tuesday” By only the 2nd working day of the first month of the year, the average CEO of a FTSE 100 company will have received more pay that the average UK worker will earn in the entire year.
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2015 time to finish off Austerity Politics
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What does privatisation look like in Barnet?
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Save Barnet Libraries Campaign
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BREAKDOWN IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS – INTERSERVE WATERLOO
Circular No IR/04/15 To All Branches, Regional Offices & Regional Councils Our Ref: BR1/14/18th January 2015 Dear…Read more…
Interserve Strike Action
From RMT Press Office.
Rail union RMT said today that a further phase of strike action by cleaners working for Interserve at Waterloo, due to start tomorrow at 5am, has been suspended to allow…Read more…
Myth-busting or diversion? HSE looking in all the wrong places
There is a new report out on health and safety myths. It is a review of all the cases that have been referred to the Mythbusters Panel which the HSE set up a few years ago to challenge health and…Read more…
Oh Balls
Here’s how the Grauniad is reporting Ed Balls’ refusal to commit to end the pay freeze or the spending cuts in local government.
http://gu.com/p/44j5xLabour’s pledge to match Tory spending plans in the first year of a Labour Government makes such a Go…Read more…
Fresh start or same old story? Three resolutions for a wage-led recovery in 2015
George Osborne’s Autumn Statement [has] opened up a “huge choice in British politics,” according to the TUC’s Frances O’Grady, “between radical cuts and pay freezes versus investment for the…Read more…
Organising workers and the question of race
Within recent memory part of the substantive debate around trade unions and equality was centred on the question of the extent to which white workers were seen to benefit from racism and working…Read more…
NEC Elections 2015: Community General Seat & Female Seat Nomination Request
I posted last week that this is the Labour movement election season with my election address for the UNISON Greater London Regional Finance Convenor position. Yesterday evening I send out nomination requests for the UNISON NEC elections (see below). I …Read more…
Barnet UNISON response to outsourcing Library proposal
Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus LinkedIn Children, Education, Libraries and Safeguarding Committee 28 October 2014 Libraries Strategy report made the following recomendation within this report…Read more…