Joan Walley was a COHSE sponsored MP (Stoke North) – here with Mo Mowlan and a young Tony Blair
With COHSE General Secretary Hector Mackenzie
Scarborough 1992Read more…
UNISON Nursing Sector Executive 1993
Unison’s first Nursing Sector Executive 1993Read more…
Whistleblower Paul Walsh 1982 – Wexham Park
RAMC WW1
NHS Wall Mural
Unison
UK Filipino Nurses Demand Justice
FILIPINO NURSES DEMAND JUSTICE
Over five hundred Filipino nurses attended a protest rally outside the headquarters of the Daily Mail London Newspaper on Saturday 30 May 2015 to protest at derogatory articles and headlines which sort to demon…Read more…
WW1 – NCF Conscientious Objector’s
Bring together library members to share and learn
#uLGC15 Falkirk’s Gray Allan warned UNISON’s Local Government Conference of the dangers of outsourcing library services as Local Government delegates pledged to campaign against the closure of library and leisure services but also called for support and training to engage in commissioning and procurement to ensure that UNISON can play an integral role in protecting jobs and services.
A librarianRead more…
National Union of Boots and Shoe Operatives
The National Union of Boots and Shoe Operatives was established in Stafford in 1874. By 1918 the union could report that over 20,000 of its members were in military service and over 2,000 had been…Read more…
End Austerity Now – National Demonstrations Saturday 20th June 2015
For details:http://www.thepeoplesassembly.org.uk/end_austerity_now_national_demonstration_saturday_20th_juneRead more…
You can’t have everything…
http://unisonactive.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/we-belong-to-glesga-dear-olglesga-toon.html?m=1
Our friends at UNISON Anonymous, the blog which is certainly never written by paid officials of our Union, appear unimpressed with Motion 106, the Lambeth branch…Read more…
The end of social housing? 10 Tory plans to finish it off
Hat tip to progressive Housing blog “Redbrick” where I have stolen their arguments about Government housing plans and put my own slant on it. They highlight 10 problems with these plans for social housing :-“The new Affordable Homes Programme (AHP) – which precludes building for…Read more…
Harefield Asbestos Factory
West Drayton Working Canal Boats
Children on Canal Boats
In 1935 – 29 canal boats registered in the Port of London carried 53 children on average of 1.81 a boat.
In 1934 – 16 boats carried 39 children on average a boat of 2.45. In…Read more…
A Vision of Hayes 1946 – Transport terminal
Hayes Communist Party plans for a transport terminal in Hayes for Hayes UDC Elections 1946Read more…