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Today is National voter registration Day.
The Labour Party has sent out this on line tool that will work out how many people registered to vote have the same name as you.
Check out http://action.labour.org.uk/how-many-of-me-in-britain
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19/01/2015. The Law Society, The Bar Council, The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) and National Union of Journalists (NUJ) have come together to express concern about current proposals in…Read more…
Early day motion on Glencore tabled in UK House of Commons Sign EDM 764 to support Glencore workers Glencore, the global mining company, claims to respect human rights, community culture, collective…Read more…
Last Saturday (31 January) the TUC migration campaign supported Southampton Communities Alliance colleagues at a ‘Stand Up For Southampton’ demonstration outside Channel 4 headquarters in…Read more…
Keeping climate change off the current political agenda won’t make it go away. A clear majority of us agree that, “The floods last winter showed us what we can expect in the future from climate change,” according to a new poll. Mind, too, that during this Parliament half a million people signing a…Read more…
West Ham and Ilford North CLPs are hosting that biggest ever Stand Up for Labour event at Stratford’s famous Theatre Royal on 9 March. You can book your seats here to attend a fantastic night of comedy to raise money for Labour.
Top comedians Sarah Pascoe and Arthur Smith, famous for both stand-up…Read more…
If you want a true display of how the government’s ideological obsession with deregulation trumps any type of common sense and seems to ignore the democratic process then you just have to read the…Read more…
#noTTIP Many hundreds of campaigners, including a contingent of UNISON activists, protested in Brussels over the past two days. The demonstration coincided with the latest round of talks on the…Read more…
Nissan, the global automotive company, has refused an offer by the US government to mediate in the long standing union recognition dispute in Canton, Mississippi, issuing blanket denials of…Read more…
JOSHUA BONEHILL-PAINE. Will he come to London if not ‘otherwise detained’?
IT had to happen some time, I suppose.
After all the excitement over murders in Paris, with Home Secretary…Read more…
The Evil Ones were crushed. The election result in today’s London regional council AGM was the 10th victory in a row for the forces of light and reason against the Ultra left and their supporters.
Clear proof that the mass of ordinary unison members a…Read more…
Colleagues,
During last night’s Newsnight Emily Maitlis didn’t have to work too hard to get Ed Balls to blather nonsense about Labour’ special relationship with big business. So poor was Balls’ performance that shame and humiliation has…Read more…
If major employers like Unifrax in Widnes and Sheffield Forgemasters are hurting, as the evidence shows, as a result of government policies introduced during this Parliament, then the government has some way to go to preserve the international competit…Read more…
It has been a year since I blogged on the arrest of a staggering 502 people in Turkey, many of whom are trade unionists, for basically voicing their dissent. More like a year and a half since my blog…Read more…
Nansi Ellis is ATL’s assistant general secretary with responsibility for policy. ATL wants a broad, balanced curriculum which prepares young people for life. Here are three principles that…Read more…
David Crossley is the Executive Director of Whole Education Network. The Whole Education Network champions and shares innovative practice in education and supports the development of a curriculum…Read more…
Scott Young is responsible for delivery of skills and employment objectives on the Thames Tideway Tunnel. Question: Which two-word answer, according to the UK press, threatens the success of UK…Read more…
TODAY marks the 104th anniversary of the death of Robert Tressell, writer of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. Everyone knows about corruption in national and local Government. Those swinging…Read more…
There Is an Alternative to the Corrupt Cartel Party System! Break with the Old, Usher In the New! In the May General Election, the voters have a choice: they can elect a candidate who does not belong…Read more…
http://action.hopenothate.org.uk/page/content/democracy-in-crisis/
This morning’s meeting of the UNISON Greater London Regional Council has just agreed a worthy motion on mobilising for the General Election.
The first step must be to encourage voter re…Read more…