The ground-breaking Disability Employment Charter, which UNISON co-founded, calls for a legal two-week limit in responding to reasonable adjustments
The article Blog: UK government should take…Read more…
An off colour remark…
Here’s yet another extract from my memoirs, which you can purchase inexpensively at https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/an-obscure-footnote-in-trade-union-history.
This concerns a staff conference held by Lambeth Council on the Southbank in 2001;
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Joyce Conway – Greenwich COHSE
COHSE and Unison Branch Secretary
Brook and Greenwich District Hospital ,later Queen Elizabeth Hospital (Greenwich)
Joyce Helen Conway MBE
7th August 1932 – 17th August 2008
Service of Rememberance
Eltham crematorium (Falconwood) 1st Septem…Read more…
Hertford & the Cole Green Way walk
Off message but a nice but wet walk today with Gill starting in Hertford. A http://www.pathfinderwalks.co.uk/our-books/pathfinder-hertfordshire-bedfordshire/ circular walk, some 45 minutes from East London by car and accessible by train.
As…Read more…
1999 – marches and banners
Here’s another extract from my memoirs, which you can purchase (perhaps as a Mother’s Day present) for a nominal price at https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/an-obscure-footnote-in-trade-union-history.
The spring of 1999 saw me carrying equally he…Read more…
Labour Canvass – Maud Gardens then Olympic Park (a plaque to the Pentonville Five?)
This morning I went on a Labour canvass in my ward, West Ham with my fellow Councillor John Whitworth and local activist Asheem Singh.
We went to Maud Gardens which is a small low rise housing estate. We picked up a lot of case work and …Read more…
The Hillingdon hospital strike, Trotsky’s birthday and the revolution
A birthday boy
Here’s another extract from my memoirs, the true enormity of which you can purchase for a nominal price at https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/an-obscure-footnote-in-trade-union-history.
In 1996 I spent a year serving as UNISON deputy…Read more…
Baked Bean Lasagne
Here’s another extract from my memoirs, the full horror of which you can purchase for a nominal price at https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/an-obscure-footnote-in-trade-union-history.
By 1993 I had become branch secretary of NALGO in Lambeth and …Read more…
Merrie England – Robert Blatchford
“A year before the issue of Merrie England, there were not 500 Socialists in Lancashire. A year after there were 50,000.”
Alex Thompson
TUC Nurses Charter 1937
NUCO
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Appointed as trade union nominee on Stakeholder Committee of London Collective Investment Vehicle (CIV)
I was really pleased to have been nominated as the new joint trade union rep to the London CIV. This collective pool of London Council pension funds has so far £44 billion of assets under its management. Many thanks to Christopher Cooper f…Read more…
Charles Harris NUCO – COHSE Officer
General Secretary statement 1949Charles Harris – NUCO COJSE Nursing
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COHSE Student demonstration 15th August 1948
COHSE demonstration to Hyde Park
20,000 marched
COHSE demand £5 minimum wage and 40 hour weekSunday 15th August 1948
COHSE now UNISON Student Nurses
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Charles A Foreman – COHSE Darenth Park
Mr Charles A Foreman – Chairman – Darenth Parish Council – Kent
Darenth Park Hospital MHIWU and COHSE
Stoke Park Labour Party
Dartford
Rev Stanley Morgan
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Student Nurses – COHSE Conference 1947
J Gue – Claybury Hospital branch had 424 COHSE members (nearly 100%)
student nurses pay – threat to strike or resign
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1991 Lambeth NALGO Advice Centres Occupation
For those of you who just can’t get enough of this Blog, you can now purchase my overlong and quite honestly fairly tedious memoirs for a purely nominal price online.
Here is an extract from those memoirs concerning the 1991 NALGO advice centres o…Read more…
Student Nurses – London 1946 – LCC
A Review of ‘The Shadow of the Mine’
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Beatrice Drapper 1946
Cupar Asylum (Stratheden Mental Hospital) Fife – National Asylum Workers Union
Cupar Asylum (Stratheden Mental Hospital) Fife National Asylum Workers Unionlater COHSE now UNISON
Branch established between January – March 1919
Official union recognition August 1919
First Union branch secretary NAWU – Mr T Melrose died 1946…Read more…