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Labour v Tories 2015: It’s ideological
Last week I watched Ed Balls give a typically combative speech at the RSA about Tory spending and taxation plans if they won the next election.
On Sunday morning I again saw Ed interviewed on the BBC Andrew Marr programme who then went on to intervie…Read more…
Paris: LGBT Newham Youth Crowdfunder
The Charity Aston-Mansfield is
seeking funding for its Newham LGBT Youth support group via a crowd funding campaign. They aim to raise £6,000 and have already donations from local football team Clapton Ultras after their Football vs Homophobia’ match. The crowd funding will last until the 11th…Read more…
BARNET: THE DISAPPEARING COUNCIL
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Barnet Council call off plan to recover the overpayments
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Are Council pension funds being ripped off? File on 4
On Tuesday evening (and repeated 5pm today) the excellent investigative Radio 4 programme “File on 4” examined whether at the same time that Councils are suffering from massive Government cuts – their pension funds are also being ripped off by fund man…Read more…
The Fight in France Against Islamophobia:
The New Secularism, a Discriminatory Principle to Promote the Clash of Civilizations – Nicolas Bourgoin – These are hard times for the Republic: multiplying attacks against Muslims and their places…Read more…
Prof Prem Sikka on ‘How to Defeat Austerity?’ Video now online
‘There was absolutely no need for anything to do with austerity. It is really a political project which has been carried out in the UK for the last 30 or 40 years. It has eroded the purchasing power…Read more…
The first round of austerity failed. A second round would be insanity
Today the TUC issues its Budget statement, accompanied by a report: ‘The price of austerity’. We know the government’s story: austerity was necessary to repair the profligacy of the Labour years and the unprecedented deficit in the wake of the financial crisis. But in spite of savage cuts to jobs,…Read more…
West Hammers helping out at Ilford North
After our street stall today in Stratford many West Ham Labour Party members went off to canvass in the marginal seat of Ilford North to support Wes Streeting as its future Labour MP.
We were split between two large local canvass teams. It was a…Read more…
Sacked union rep Charlotte Monro, formerly of Whipps Cross Hospital, defended by former employees
A fired union rep at Whipps Cross Hospital was defended by former employees at a tribunal today. The tribunal resumed today for Charlotte Monro, former moving and handling coordinator at the…Read more…
West Ham Labour Party Stall – Stratford 2015
Today we had a West Ham Labour Party stall outside Stratford Shopping centre, giving out the ever popular Labour Party balloons to prospective voters under the age of 10 and leaflets to their parents on Labour plans for rent controls and protect the NH…Read more…
Crisis of Government Revenue
Necessity for New Pro-Social Direction for the Economy The current methods to claim government revenue have hit a roadblock. Two issues emphasize the difficulties: 1) The global monopolies that…Read more…
Northern Ireland says NO to Austerity
#M13 Over 50,000 public service workers, including UNISON members, across Northern Ireland took 24 hour all out strike action against austerity cuts yesterday. Education, health, transport and…Read more…
Speech: National Shop Stewards Network, Midlands conference
Thank you for this opportunity to address you. The CWU supports the promotion of a new shop stewards movement. The origin of this is a speech by the late Jack Jones, several years ago. He argued that…Read more…
Luca Visentini To Be New European TUC Head
Italian trade unionist Luca Visentini is the proposed successor to Bernadette Ségol as General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation. This week a meeting of the ETUC’s Executive…Read more…
LATEST: Crown Dispute: Ontario Appoints Expert To Investigate Strike
Ontario, Canada: Ontario Minister of Labour Kevin Flynn is appointing Morton Mitchnick to conduct an Industrial Inquiry Commission to facilitate a resolution in the dispute involving the United…Read more…
FBU members angry at forced changes to their shift patterns
Emergency 999 control operators in Essex today begin an eight-day strike over changes to their shift patterns. The FBU members – most of whom are women – are angry at having to leave their jobs or…Read more…