Best of the Handforth Parish Council Planning & Environment Committee
Of course in the past 10 months since lockdown no Newham Council or Labour Party meeting has been anything like this đ
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McCluskey To Government: Publish Impact Of Bad Bosses Threat To UK Workers
Len McCluskey of Unite, is demanding that the government discloses the full impact of any roll-back of workersâ rights on the country’s millions of women, vulnerable and minority workers. Unite…Read more…
Statement By Unite on article in The Times, January 16th.
Unite have issued the following statement today. “The reports in The Times are an extremely crude attempt to smear Unite and its leadership through a disgraceful attempt at…Read more…
WAPPING â âTHE WORKERS STORYâ
At last the  film is now available online and on DVD! Chris Reeves of Platform Films has produced a marvellous film which has taken several years to complete as Chris is heavily engaged in making and…Read more…
Montrose Turns 60
Happy birthday to my Tower Hamlets UNISON Housing and Labour Party comrade (and old friend) Montrose Matty on his 60th birthday.
We have just finished a virtual beer and curry with various mates and his family and look forward to meeting up in th…Read more…
Keir Hardie MP Labour Party membership card 1895 (& modern version)
Yesterday was the 128 anniversary of the birth of the Independent Labour Party (forerunner of the Labour Party). Hat tip Ali G & the Keir Hardie Society.
By coincidence I was sent the above picture of the ILP membership card issued to Keir Hardie…Read more…
Cllr Lola Oyewusi to be the next Kent Police & Crime Commissioner May 2021
This afternoon I spoke at the virtual launch of the campaign to elect the Labour and Cooperative Party candidate, Lola Oyewusi, as the next Kent Police and Crime Commissioner in May 2021.
I have known Lola for many years and she is the assistant …Read more…
Workers Canât Wait â Without Support, Millions Face Poverty
By Len McCluskey With poverty and unemployment skyrocketing before lockdown, the government must act urgently to avoid a disaster â and support millions of workers who are already on the breadline….Read more…
“Why we need you to stand as a Labour Councillor”
Why I would hope that candidates to be Councillors will also be “Labour and Co-operative” I am pleased that the Party is organising this training next week for members interested in standing in the local elections due to held in May 2021. &n…Read more…
ETUC On EU-UK Brexit Agreement
The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) believes there is no Brexit that will benefit working people. In the circumstances, we welcome the European Unionâs efforts to stop no-deal, guarantee…Read more…
UK-EU Brexit Agreement: âA Thin Dealâ Says David Bailey
Blog by Professor David Bailey Birmingham Business School That a trade deal has been at been agreed at the last minute between the UK and EU comes as a huge relief for manufacturing sectors like…Read more…
Unite on UK-EU Brexit Deal â Manufacturing.
Commenting on the UK – EU trade deal Unite said the UKs manufacturing workers will be relieved âbut government must not claim job done Steve Turner, assistant general secretary said: “The…Read more…
KCK statement on the arrest of MP Leyla GĂźven
The arrest of Leyla GĂźvenexposes the reality of the Turkish State Tens of MPs and mayors, hundreds of leading HDP members and thousands of democratic politicians find themselves imprisoned in Turkey….Read more…
Urgent Appeal To Help War Graves Workers
Solidarity means helping each other out which is why your support for Unite members in industrial struggle is needed. Workers who maintain and care for our commonwealth war graves in France and…Read more…
Venezuelaâs National Assembly Elections â A Landslide For PSUV
Venezuelaâs National Assembly elections: an important victory for Chavismo Francisco Dominguez assesses the results of the vote. Venezuelaâs free and fair elections to the National Assembly, held on…Read more…
Lola for Labour Kent Police & Crime Commissioner May 2021
I was pleased to see that my UNISON branch comrade Lola Oyewusi has been selected by the Labour Party to be their candidate to be the next Kent Police & Crime Commissioner (PCC) in the elections in May 2021.
Lola understands that she will be…Read more…
A Newham Branch of the Labour Housing Group?
I have been a member of the Labour Housing Group (LHG) for many years. For almost as long I have been talking about seeing if we could set up a borough wide branch of the LHG in Newham.
On its website the LHG describes its role as “The…Read more…
Blog: This avoidable crisis
The Lawrence Review endorses UNSION’s view that decades of discrimination have left Black communities over-exposed and under-protected from COVID-19
The article Blog: This avoidable crisis first…Read more…
Everyone in the Labour Party must take âshameful, distressingâ EHRC report âvery seriouslyâ, says UNISON
There must be no room for discrimination within Labour
The article Everyone in the Labour Party must take âshameful, distressingâ EHRC report âvery seriouslyâ, says UNISON first appeared on the…Read more…