Providing all branches with effective support and resources is UNISON’s ‘key priority’
The article Branch resources review underway first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Get elected – and help UNISON remain relevant and effective in the 2020s
The nomination period is about to open for this year’s service group executive elections
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Sadiq For London 2020
Another year, another election campaign. Just over 4 months until the Greater London Mayor and Assembly election. There will also be local Council elections in May (not London).
Today, Labour Party activists were handing these leaflets to commuters ou…Read more…
Unison Branch AGMs February 2020
The branch Annual General Meetings will take place as follows: Monday 10 February 2020 at 12.30 pm Windsor Room, Stoke Town Hall. Buffet from 12 midday. Last date for receipt of food orders Friday 31 January 2020. Promotional Poster – 10 ……Read more…
2019 General Election – what happened?
Hasty conclusions on the scale of Labour’s general election defeat and preordained ‘solutions’ are worthless. Sweeping generalisations are being substituted … MoreRead more…
Review: A Forgotten Hero: Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish Humanitarian Who Rescued 30,000 People from the Nazis, by Shelley Emling
Count Folke Bernadotte is largely forgotten today, but his murder in Jerusalem in 1948 made headlines around the world. The first UN peace mediator in the Middle East, he was targeted by members of…Read more…
2019 Reviewed – Part Two
Despite the challenged posed by Boris, Brexit and a bitter general election, UNISON members continued to fight for quality public services and workers’ rights
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Your union will always be there to stand up for you, every single day of this new decade
UNISON is the biggest union in the UK – because public service workers like you have put your trust in us to stand with you.
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Blwyddyn Newydd Dda! (From Tigger)
Happy New Year Everyone! Could not resist posting this picture of Tigger who was our “host” at the cottage in Wales that we rented for Christmas. My first ever social media “Cat” picture I think. Read more…
Llanwyfan – Penycloddiau Hill Fort Circular Walk
Off message but spent Christmas in North Wales visiting family. In between visits (and eating and drinking lots) Gill and I had some fantastic walks. We hired a cottage near Llanwyfan which is about 4 miles from Denbigh. There use to be a large TB hosp…Read more…
TUC head calls on labour movement to pull together and avoid “self-pity” and “recriminations” in New Year message
“Working families won’t be sorry to see the back of the 2010s. It’s been a decade of austerity and pay stagnation – putting real pressure on family finances, the NHS and the public services we all rely on.
Looking to the next decade, we face big chal…Read more…
Newham in east London has steepest house price rises of the century
Hat tip The Guardian. This is NOT a good thingRead more…
The Death of Stalin
I watched “The Death of Stalin” on Netflix last night. It is billed as a comedy. While there are some comic moments it is not for the faint hearted.
An account of a gangster state changing its leadership. I wonder how accurate it is? Strange to s…Read more…
#NewhamDemocracyCommission Have you had your say?
Democracy and Civic Participation Commission – tell us what you think. To join the conversation online, and for full details of all events visit: https://www.newhamdemocracycommission.org/
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Review: The War in the West, A New History: Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941, by James Holland
This is history on a grand scale. James Holland has limited himself to the war in the west, covering the period up to the German invasion of the USSR in June 1941. So in terms…Read more…
A Christmas gift from “Battling Bessie” Braddock
An early Christmas present were these historic Labour Party cuff links. My cousin is friends with an elderly Labour supporter in Dolgellau, North Wales who wanted me to have have them. Which is very kind of him.
What is particularly fascinating is tha…Read more…
Turnout tales
If recent events tell us anything, it’s that voting matters… With that in mind this is a quick post on something that caught my eye this year: sharp changes in voting turnout at a number of companies. Some of the more striking examples have been at c…Read more…
Merry Communist Christmas
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Newham’s Rough Sleeper Xmas Shelter
“Volunteers are hard at work putting the final festive touches to the rough sleepers Christmas Shelter which opens today in Stratford at 2pm. It’s the second year #Newham Council has supported the project run by Stratford Seventh Day Adventist Church a…Read more…
A view from the right
Hap tip free markets think tank CPS for this article by Glen O’Hara.
The real reasons Labour lost
Labour should not have lost this election. Only once before has any modern British government going for a fourth term won the approval of the vote…Read more…