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On the train back to London with UNISON delegates after our annual National Seminar and Conference in Bradford. See previous posts on the Seminar which took place immediately before here and here.
The Conference was chaired by UNISON Vice Presid…Read more…
What is becoming clear is that the Academy Trust has specific strategy and tactics in light of the national failures of the Academy arrangements. The Gove strategy was to continue support of…Read more…
The excessive workloads and working hours facing teachers in the UK have been clearly established in figures published by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) to mark its annual Work Your Proper Hours…Read more…
By John Pilger Global Research, February 26, 2015 The recent 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was a reminder of the great crime of fascism, whose Nazi iconography is embedded in our…Read more…
Organisations generally want to celebrate their successes. A bit of boasting burnishes an organisation’s public image, as well as boosting the reputations of its staff, management, and promoters. Some organisations even celebrate their failures. The Royal Bank of Scotland, majority owned by the UK…Read more…
Dr Louise Irvine talks to the BBC about #DevoManc NHA – South West Surrey Group Posted on February 25, 2015 by swsurreynha £6bn a year of health spending is to be handed to Greater Manchester. It is…Read more…
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Day 2 of the national seminar started off with more workshops and reporting back. Then after morning break the plenary session with West Midlands Regional Head of Community Andrew Johnson explaining in a lucid and comprehensive way the new Government r…Read more…
New College is shortly to put in an application for an all-weather football pitch on Council owned Buckhurst field1 which sits on the edge of Park North and Walcot. The New College management are looking to the Council to give it a 25 year lease. The cost of the pitch would be £600,000 with…Read more…
It is a privilege to address your AGM. CLPD gives coherence to everything the left stands for inside the Party – to be practical, effective and principled. There is no difference amongst us,…Read more…
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An impressive line up of speakers
Francesca Martinez Comedian and activist
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Click here for a quick overview as to where we are in relation to the ideological assault on in house delivery of Council services in London Borough of…Read more…
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Greater Manchester is to take control of the region’s Health and Social Care spending. Yesterday George Osborne announced that from 2016 Greater Manchester’s combined authorities will take…Read more…
The following is an open and public letter from members of Unite’s United Left grouping to members of the Socialist Party who are standing candidates against Labour candidates in marginal…Read more…
December has frozen its double-edged breath
and blows it down from the icy heavens,
like a dry fire coming apart in threads,
like a huge ruin that topples on…Read more…
One Hundred USW members and allies from trade unions from Texas and around the world visited the Houston offices of multinational corporation Glencore on February 26th to present the company with a…Read more…
According to reports on the negotiation front, it is being reported that “it’s been a quiet week for striking oil workers and energy executives”. The United Steelworkers added three more…Read more…
From left: Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko pose for a group photo at Independence…Read more…
The utterly appalling and reactionary howls that greeted Rachel Reeve’s maternity leave plans remind us that although we have come a long way, there is still just as far to go on when it comes…Read more…