On Thursday evening after Pension committee, a couple of us went across the road from East Ham Town Hall to “The Miller’s Well” for some food and a drink. While many people are for good reasons anti-Wetherspoons’s (due to the right wing views of one of…Read more…
35 Best Labor Blogs and Websites – John’s Labour Blog
It was nice to get this notification this evening via twitter “Congrats @grayee Your blog has been selected as one of the Best Labor Blogs on the web by @_feedspot”.”The best Labor blogs from thousands of blogs on the web and ranked by traffic, s…Read more…
Three Labour Movement AGM’s in one Week
Last week I attended 3 different Annual General Meetings.
On Tuesday and Thursday evening, it was the Newham Labour Group AGM (Councillors) where I was elected unopposed as Group Chair.
Then on Wednesday UNISON Greater London Regional Council AG…Read more…
A Day in the Life of a Labour Movement Activist
A busy but satisfying Saturday. Started off with being a UNISON delegate to the virtual TUC London and South East Regional Council AGM.
During which we were reminded that today was the 8th anniversary of when the Rana Plaza factory building in D…Read more…
My Labour Movement Week – 28 October to 3 November 2019
I thought that I will do a weekend summary of the stuff I have been doing during the past week but have not posted upon.
So this week we had a visit to to Lyn Brown MP and staff to discuss housing policy; there was an important visit to Newham by…Read more…
Elected to UNISON National Executive Council (NEC) for Community Members (who work in Housing Associations & Voluntary Sector)
I was really pleased to learn today that I was re-elected for the 5th time, with my best result yet, as a UNISON National Executive Council (NEC) Member for Community (representing 77,000 out of 1.3 million members who work for Housing Associations &am…Read more…
West Ham General Election day 2017 (we win)
June 8 was not only a political historic day nationally but a busy day locally for all activists. At 4.30am 10 members of West Ham Women’s forum were in Ilford North to deliver the “don’t forget to vote” leaflets as were other West Hammers in marginal …Read more…
USi Exclusive: young Chinese labour activist: I want to set up my own NGO
This week, USi talked to a Shenzhen-based labour activist, who has been involved in major labour conflicts in the past few years. Recently he quit his job from a prominent labour NGO. He shared with USi his observations over the challenges of China’s labour movement, and his plan of setting up his own labour NGO.Read more…
Learning & Organising in Greater London UNISON 2015 (defend members & fight union busters)
If you are a London UNISON activist then download our training programme and application form for 2015 courses. I will be applying to go on the refresher steward course this year (under the Employment Rights Act unions are obligated to make sure that t…Read more…