This meant that some elected NEC members felt felt they had to leave the platform to try and support and comfort delegates who had been told in these "speeches" by a tiny number of far left extremists, that effectively they were useless at work and should be sacked.
The NEC Presidential team did nothing to protect these Members and stop such comments.
I have been going to UNISON conferences for 20 years or so and have never seen any thing so disgusting and shameful.
Soon we should get major change in the way we run union elections since the Labour Government has committed to allowing us to bring our elections process up-to-date with modern electronic and workplace voting. This should increase participation and turnout.
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A very powerful portrait. Hat tip Zaro.
Reducing the need for long commutes, to and from work; therefore seeing your young children in the morning and before they go to bed, as well as potentially being more productive and focused is a positive. However, feeling alone and isolated, being unable to have a proper work life balance and switch off, as well as not having a home suitable to work, in is a negative.
I am aware of managers who actively discourage their employees from working in an office since working from home suits them, as well as managers who want their team to be in the same physical office as them, 9-5, every day of the working week regardless of any circumstances.
UNISON guidance, is as usual, sensible and pragmatic, aiming always to reach a consensus but making it clear, that if the employer does not share that approach, there will be consequences.
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I have worked in Bow East, off and on, for the last 31 years and I am certain that Abdi will make a superb Councillor.
He has the support and respect of Newham and Tower Hamlet Labour Activists in the new shared Parliamentary Consistency of Stratford and Bow.
Many thanks for Adam Allnutt for organising such a well run event. I continued with my run of luck in Labour Party raffles by winning a bottle of wine!
Check out this excellent article by Peter Apps (former Inside Housing magazine). Powerful factual arguments that is a million miles away from far right fake news.
"As the far right march through the streets of Britain, it is worth reminding ourselves that one of their favourite arguments is a fiction
Also, to continue with Gill on our attempt to walk around London along the 78 mile Capital Ring. Our last walk around the ring was in rainy April. Since then there has been the London Mayoral election and a General election. While we have done other walks, last Sunday was our first Capital Ring for 4 months.
Journey to the start at Streatham Common was pretty straight forward from Forest Gate with lots of different routes and took just over an hour.
The Capital Ring is pretty well signposted with only the occasional missing signage. There are a number of guidebooks and free websites such as Capital Ring Walk - Transport for London (tfl.gov.uk). I download each route onto my Ordinance Survey app which tracks you if you get lost. We use Capital Ring – Welcome to Footline Press! (colinsaunders.org.uk) as our guide book.
First interesting thing to see is a 1888 water pumping station which looks like a "Moorish Temple". A little way further at 14 Conyers Road, there is a strained glass window in a normal residential house showing a women watching a departing sailing boat.
We walked alongside the famous open air Tooting Bec lido. Opened in 1906 and one of the largest swimming pools in Europe. We stopped off at the park café for an enjoyable outdoor cooked breakfast.
Next point of interest (to me anyway) was passing Du Cane Court, which was described in our guide book as "one of the most elegant apartment blocks in South London, dating from the Art Deco period of the 1930s". Pretty impressive. While I could not see inside these apartments, it shows that you can have high density residential housing which looks attractive and stands the test of time.
We stopped off for coffee and treats in Wandsworth common next to a lake. The bench next to us was dedicated to the memory of Benni & Bella Spanier, who were murdered at Auschwitz in 1944 and their daughter Ruth, who escaped via the Kindertransport to England in 1939 aged 11.
After passing though more attractive parks and residential areas we walked past Wandsworth Prison, which is rather a grim and forbidding place. 135 executions took place at this site. The gallows were kept in working order until 1993.
We choose to walk through Wandsworth Cemetery rather than the adjacent road which was very nice and peaceful with some interesting graves and moving inscriptions.
Final point of interest was at number 61 (did not record which street) where there was a picture or another stained glass window of a women starting out to the street (see Facebook link for picture and other photos).
We finished at Wimbledon Park station and took train straight back home. An enjoyable 5.5 mile walk. Looking forward to walk 6. Wimbledon Park to Richmond, since rated as the "prettiest" walk in the ring.
Will also look out on route for any wombles.
Hat tip Captain Swing
