Photographer Martin Jenkinson, a former steelworker, was commissioned by many unions including the TGWU/Unite and National Union of Mineworkers and was responsible for some of the most striking…Read more…
Impact investing in Social Housing: An Asset Owner & Landlord Prospective
Last month I was on a panel at a seminar on “social impact investing” in property. In my capacity as a pension trustee seeking long term financial returns and as the lead member for Housing in a Council with a desperate housing crisis.
While the …Read more…
Doctorate completed (still having blog access problems)
Dear Colleagues,
I am very pleased to report that, having enrolled on a Professional Doctorate in Researching Work at London Met Univ in Sep 2011, I have now been awarded my doctorate.
I have a journal article based on my findings appearing shortly i…Read more…
Students hear about the advantages of joining the NUJ
JOURNALISM students at the University of the West of England heard about the benefits of being part of the world’s largest union for media workers when Bristol branch’s chair and…Read more…
UNISON winter fuel grant for low paid members
“Get help with winter fuel billsMembers living on a low income constantly struggle to make ends meet – and this can be particularly acute in the winter when the cost of heating homes rises as the outside temperature falls.But it’s not all bad news – he…Read more…
Success in Peoples Republic: Failure Nationally #GE2019
Congratulations to Lyn and Stephen for their “Landslide” victories for Labour in West Ham and East Ham (both in the London Borough of Newham).
However, as soon as I saw the exit poll on the 10 O’Clock news last night I knew that Labour nationally was …Read more…
A&E waiting times show NHS ‘on its knees’, says UNISON
New government must deliver on health service promises
The article A&E waiting times show NHS ‘on its knees’, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Christmas and sexual harassment – stories from the dark side of the office party
What should be a celebration with colleagues can too often turn into an ordeal of innuendo, harassment and even assault
The article Christmas and sexual harassment – stories from the dark side of…Read more…
‘Thin end of the wedge’
Engineering workers at Felixstowe docks in Suffolk have voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a dispute over the threat that some of them will be transferred to an outside company. A total…Read more…
Determined solidarity
Christmas strike action at Argos’ flagship distribution centre in Barton, Staffordshire, has been called off after UPS shunter and HGV drivers secured a pay deal worth about 4.5 per cent, Unite said…Read more…
‘Grim Christmas’
A confidential survey of over 2,000 members of Unite who were formerly employed on Thomas Cook’s airline has revealed that most are facing a grim Christmas. Ten weeks after Thomas Cook…Read more…
Working families throughout Wales desperately need change at this election
The wider problem of work and society is insecure work
Christmas in 2019, in many ways is also a reflection of wider problems with the world of work and society – insecure work.Read more…
The dog that didn’t bark
To be honest, I’m not looking forward to election day tomorrow. If the polling is right we can expect a Conservative majority and Brexit to go ahead, neither of which are my favoured outcomes! I thought the same would happen in 2017 and it didn’t, so w…Read more…
Vote Lyn Brown – Your Labour Candidate for West Ham
I have been the election agent for Lyn since 2010 (now the 4th time) and below are some responses to enquires I have had previously on General Election polling day
Check out West Ham Labour website if you want to help Lyn out todayPolling stations are…Read more…
There are 10,000 fewer doctors to see you now. Your Vote can save our NHS
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West Ham Labour Phone banking, leafleting & canvassing in marginals – Eve of Poll & Election Day
WED 11th DEC (hat tip Andy at West Ham Labour)West Ham
leafletting 7.30am – Wansted Park Station
leafletting 7.30am – Stratford Station
10.30 am – meet up for canvassing in Enfield Southgate
phonebanking 5-7pm St Lukes community cen…Read more…
‘More and more desperate’
This Christmas, children across the country will be opening presents and celebrating the festive period with friends and family, likely over a large meal with all the trimmings. But for…Read more…
Under the Tories everything’s been cut. Except waiting times. Your vote can save the NHS
#YourVoteCanRead more…
New growth figures leave Boris Johnson’s boast of a ‘strong economy’ in tatters
After a decade of Tory cuts, economic growth has ground to a halt.Read more…