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Today we remembered four local workers who in 1901 selflessly lost their lives, while trying to rescue a colleague who had collapsed from poisonous fumes, whilst inspecting a ventilation shaft in what is now “Three Mills Green park”.
This annual…Read more…
Unite has partnered with global union federations IndustriALL Global and UNI on a yearlong worldwide health and safety campaign in the pulp, paper, packaging and graphical sector that begins today…Read more…
Every year on April 28 on Workers Memorial Day, Unite joins workers across the world to pay tribute to those who have tragically died at work – many under unsafe working conditions. Today we…Read more…
New long-term authoritative research published in the British Medical Journal has revealed that workers in the tyre and rubber industry remain at significant risk of developing certain cancers due…Read more…
Advance notice of this years Workers Memorial Day event at 3 Mills Green, Stratford, Newham, E3Read more…
Picture college is from the last day of Newham Heritage Week, when Gill and I walked from Forest Gate (and back) for a tour of Mill House in 3 Mill Island, Bromley-by-Bow.
We walked via the back streets of Forest Gate, thorough West Ham Park, the Gree…Read more…
Unite activists gathered at Tower Hill in London on Saturday (April 28), International Workers’ Memorial Day, to pay tribute to those who’ve been killed or injured at work. …Read more…
Unite members from across Yorkshire gathered at ceremonies to mark International Workers Memorial Day (IWMD) on Saturday (April 28). In Sheffield around 100 people gathered as a wreath was…Read more…
The nature of the agricultural industry means there will always be a safety risk. Yet those risks can be minimised the fact that this is not happening means that far too many workers die every year…Read more…
For many people, falling asleep at work can certainly come with consequences – being reprimanded by your boss or even losing your job. But for others such as lorry drivers, the outcome can be deadly….Read more…
Unite members across the country will tomorrow (April 28) observe International Workers’ Memorial Day (IWMD), in honour of the many millions across the globe who are killed at work. The union,…Read more…
This is a really important event in the Labour movement calendar and takes place, I think, at the most significant but unknown example of historic working class art in East London. I hope that as many members of the Labour Movement family can attend as…Read more…
“The purpose behind Workers’ Memorial Day has always been to “remember the dead: fight for the living” and unions are asked to focus on both areas, by considering events or memorial to remember all those killed through work but at the same time ensurin…Read more…
Councillor Report to Ward 7 December 2017 WEST HAM WARD LABOUR PARTY
tel: 0203 373 2615 or email John.Gray@newham.gov.uk
This is my bi-monthly written report. In October both I and my fellow ward member, John Whitworth, attended and passed …Read more…
Today is Workers Memorial Day, and across the world trade unionists remember the 20,000 British and the 2.3 million deaths of workers worldwide who die prematurely every year in work related accidents or from occupational disease.
In Three Mills …Read more…
Just as Unite members, mostly in construction, gathered at the building worker’s statue in London to mark International Workers’ Memorial Day (IWMD) today (April 28), news broke that yet another of…Read more…
On International Worker’s Memorial Day, the motto is ‘Remember the dead and fight for the living’. In the fifth and final part of our Workers’ Memorial Day series, we…Read more…
In part 4 of our Workers’ Memorial Day series, we speak to Unite’s Gary Fairclough, who tells of a harrowing workplace accident that took him years to recover. When Gary Fairclough…Read more…
Punishing long hours’ culture in many professional kitchens is putting the mental and physical health of chefs in London at risk, a snapshot survey by Unite has revealed. Almost half (44 per…Read more…
Unite is warning that workers’ lives are being placed at risk due to the cut in the number of frontline health and safety inspectors. Figures obtained by Unite, via a Freedom of Information…Read more…