This is the form for Labour Councillor candidates in London who are UNISON members (and pay the Labour Link levy) to claim £100 each for their CLP to fund their campaign. If you work in London but live outside you can still claim. If your CLP is …Read more…
Anu Prashar – “the members choice” UNISON Labour Link elections
UNISON Labour Link members should have got an email or postal ballot (or both – but with the same security number). Please vote for Anu and outside London consider the following recommendations here
https://www.johnslabourblog.org/2021/09/unison-labou…Read more…
Anu Prashar – UNISON Labour Link election “Anu’s politics comes from the shop floor & the doorstep…”
…and yes, Anu will fight for a Labour Party that stands up for workers rights.
Ballot papers have been sent out from today to UNISON Labour Link levy payers home addresses. If you are a member in London vote for Anu. Check out other recommenda…Read more…
Vote Anu Prashar – UNISON Labour Link London seat
Check out and share Anu’s campaign twitter https://twitter.com/Anu4LabLink and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Anu-Prashar-For-Unison-Labour-Link-108483351572575/
Ballot papers start to be delivered at UNISON Labour Link members from t…Read more…
UNISON London Labour Link Training
This evening there was a virtual training session for new London UNISON Labour Link officers. Labour Link is the UNISON political fund that supports the Labour Party. UNISON is affiliated to the Labour Party and every UNISON branch should have a Labour…Read more…
Labour Unions for Kim in Batley & Spen, Custom House doorstep wash out & great Little Ilford dialogue
My political campaigning life is beginning to somewhat come back to “normal” (whatever that means nowadays).
On Wednesday evening I took part in a Labour Unions telecanvassing session for Kim Leadbeater, the Labour candidate in the by elec…Read more…
Lola for Kent Police Crime Commissioner Dialogue call – 11am Saturday 24 April
Greater London UNISON Labour Link are supporting this phone bank on Saturday. If you are a UNISON and Labour Party member please join this session.
“Dear all please join me this Saturday at 11am for phone banking dialogue session. I’m the Labou…Read more…
UNISON and Labour Unions phone bank with David Lammy MP
Picture collage from last night’s “dialogue” phone bank organised by Labour Unions and Greater London UNISON Labour Link.
David Lammy MP gave us a quick briefing beforehand on how important it is that we have a Labour Mayor & Assembly …Read more…
Greater London UNISON Labour Link telephone bank for Sadiq Khan as Mayor
Yesterday it was good to meet up “virtually” with Sadiq and 7 London Labour Assembly candidates for a UNISON Labour Link sponsored virtual phone bank.
In the briefing by Sadiq to us beforehand, it just reinforced to me, exactly why we need…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…
Prentis urges Labour to commit to a ‘new deal’ for public services
UNISON’s general secretary calls today’s public service workers the ‘new giants’ of the labour movement
The article Prentis urges Labour to commit to a ‘new deal’ for public services first appeared…Read more…
My NEC report to the UNISON Community Service Group Executive (SGE) meeting 8 July 2020
(Love this pic. The 1.3 million members of UNISON are split into “Service Groups” according to their occupation and employer. Community comprises of members employed by the Voluntary Sector (Charities and Housing Associations). While we have our moment…Read more…
Key workers ‘overlooked and underpaid’ says Starmer
“There’s got to be change – they were last and now they’ve got to be first,” Labour leader says as he praises key workers in first TV interview
The article Key workers ‘overlooked and underpaid’…Read more…
Dave Prentis: “This election is the fight of our lives”
Hat tip UNISON General Secretary, Dave Prentis blog: “Election day is less than five weeks away – and this election is the fight of our lives. After a decade of Tory austerity, public service workers know better than anyone the terrible toll that auste…Read more…
NHS 70 : Celebrate and Defend Party in Gateshead
Belated picture collage from NHS 70th Birthday Party held on 5 July in Gateshead. UNISON Labour Link Executive was meeting nearby “across the water” to prepare for the National Forum which started the following day and we volunteered to join the celebr…Read more…
Greater London UNISON Labour Link backs Janet Danby for Lewisham East
Greater London UNISON Labour Link has made a supportive nomination for our union member (and former social worker) Janet Daby in the Lewisham East by election.
She is also the Lewisham Deputy Mayor and will make an excellent Parliamentary candidate.
I #VotedRokhs – Official UNISON Labour Link candidate!
“I’ve voted – have you? Please share if you’ve #VotedRokhs so we can show Labour members that it’s time for a change, a new vision and a new way of doing things for the people of Newham. Really pleased that I am the official UNISON backed can…Read more…
UNISON National Labour Link Committee Elections 2017
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Why Vote Labour (5 top reasons if you belong to a trade union)
(sent to UNISON Labour Link members). Above from whyvotelabour.org.uk.. Check it out.
“it’s the final countdown to the General Election with polls narrowing.
UNISON is acting as the lead union supporting Ilford North CLP, Ealing, Central & A…Read more…
“New Tory White Paper – Putting Jobs & Residents at Risk”. Emergency motion to UNISON Community Conference 2017
On 7 February 2017 the Government issued a white paper on the future of housing in England. The paper had been trailed beforehand as being the blueprint to fix the housing crisis and “as having affordability at its heart”.
The actual white paper has been dismissed by many commentators as being a…Read more…