Buried deep in the US Senate’s foreign aid support package for Ukraine is a fast track provision to ban the Chinese social media platform TikTok unless it is sold by its Chinese owners ByteDance to a US-approved buyer, something ByteDance … Continue reading Read more…
St Georges Day 2024 – Message from Keir Starmer
“On behalf of the Labour Party, I wish everyone a happy St George’s Day. Let us be proud of our national identity, confident on the world stage, and sure of our country’s future”.Keir StarmerRead more…
TUC AI Report, Employment Bill & Organising In Digital & Tech Sectors
The TUCs special task force report on Artificial intelligence and Employment Rights Bill was launched at the TUC Congress House in London on April 18th. Comprising of the TUC, the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of … Continue reading Read more…
Rachel Reeves Explains Labour’s New Deal For Working Peopl
Hat tip TUC. Good stuff!Read more…
PSC Rally Bedford April 13th
Tony Burke Speech April 13th, Labour & Palestine, Bedford PSC Trade Union Officer Hundreds of thousands of people have been demonstrating in London every two weeks including many from Bedfordshire and our trade unions. Without those demonstrations the genocide now … Continue reading Read more…
Bedford PSC Demands Ceasefire & An End To The Gaza War
By Linda Jack, Chair of Unite Health and Local Government Branch Over 200 supporters of the people of Palestine joined a march and rally from Bedford Park to Castle Mound to call for an urgent ceasefire in Gaza. With International … Continue reading Read more…
Thank you from UNISON & Good Luck to Jamie Dickinson in the Labour Party!
There was a lovely informal “leaving do” this evening in the Unison centre for our former UNISON activist and national officer, Jamie Dickinson (front centre) . Jamie supported our International and Labour Link Committee. He is leaving UNISON to …Read more…
Under the Conservatives: Dentistry isn’t working
Hat tip Labour Party & Ken Penton. A powerful image and caption “Yesterday, hundreds of people desperate for an NHS dentist appointment queued for hours when a new practice opened in Bristol.After 14 years of Tory decline, this is the Britain …Read more…
Blog: The hope Labour can bring
The party’s New Deal for Working People, planned with UNISON’s involvement, would make a huge improvement to working people’s lives
The article Blog: The hope Labour can bring first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Blog: The hope Labour can bring
The party’s New Deal for Working People, planned with UNISON’s involvement, would make a huge improvement to working people’s lives
The article Blog: The hope Labour can bring first appeared on the UNISON National site.
100 years of Labour achievement: 1924-2024
“January 2024 is the 100th anniversary of the first ever Labour government.In the election the previous month, Labour secured its best result up until that point, pushing the Liberals into third. The Conservatives failed to get an overall majority…Read more…
LHG Annual General Meeting 2024 – Sat 9 March in Central London or virtual
(the Labour Housing Group is a “socialist society affiliated to the Labour Party we work within the movement, both nationally and locally, to develop and promote workable socialist housing policies through…Read more…
Hugh Lanning of Labour & Palestine Speech January 18th
Palestine in 2024 – What the World should be doing For the first time since the war on Gaza began there was a “Labour Members for Palestine” bloc on the march last Saturday, January 13th. The bloc was organised by … Continue reading Read more…
Nordic Tesla Investors Tell Musk: “You Must Obey The Rules”
The pressure on Elon Musk, the worlds richest man and CEO of Tesla who is refusing to reach an agreement on Collective Bargaining and union recognition with the Swedish IF Metall union, (who are being supported by other Nordic unions … Continue reading Read more…
Newham Voices: “East End Pubs” December 2023
I have finally got around to reading the December version of “Newham Voices”. It has been a busy few weeks. Lots of good stuff about politics and planning but my eye was caught about this review by Phil Mellows, of a new book called “East E…Read more…
Labour Unions Christmas Shop
I have just ordered a “Labour New Deal for Working People” mug for Christmas. Check out other gifts https://labourunions-shop.org.uk/ “Dear John,With Christmas almost upon us, a
reminder that our Labour Unions Campaign Shop carries a range of…Read more…
Labour ‘must be bold’
In the early 1970s the American liberal philosopher John Rawls wrote “A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you’d be willing to enter it in a random place”. The quote sums up the aspirations of the age. Ever-rising living standards allowed ordinary workers to believe that their kids would […]
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The EastEnders Effect. Episode 28: Representation in the East End
It is a bit long but a fascinating interview by my Councillor constituent Ade Adeyemi of my UNISON comrade, Joseph Ogundemuren. He speaks from the heart of growing up, born and bred, as a working class black male in East London from immigrant parents. …Read more…
Sarah Woolley: “Trade Union Movement Should Back Organise Now”
Sarah Woolley, General Secretary of Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) is calling on the whole labour movement to back Organise Now, as it celebrates its first anniversary. As figures show that 200,000 workers (mainly women) left the trade … Continue reading Read more…
Five ways Labour can win
Labour’s recent reshuffle has sent a clear message. They want to take us back to the 90s. The trouble is, times have changed. Tinkering around the edges is not enough. To fix our broken economy we need intervention. Not politicians who are scared stiff of doing anything other than stand on the sidelines as profiteers […]
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