Showing posts with label Rob Beeston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rob Beeston. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 07, 2012

Ken Livingstone meets London Labour Link

Last night following the London UNISON Labour Link Forum there was there was a "Ken for London"
meeting at the UNISON HQ in Euston.

Ken gave a 10 minute speech (see phone camera video here on YouTube - hat tip Phil Lewis from
Camden).

Picture is of Ken with the Chair of the UNISON London retired members Rob Beeston and Joel Bodmer who is chair of UNISON London Young members (and national) network.

We gave Ken a tour of the building and the campaigning phone bank.
UNISON has put out this press release 

Livingstone meets London Labour Link

UNISON activists raised their concerns about the future of public services in London at a meeting with Labour mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone last night.

The event, which also included Greater London Assembly candidates Andrew Dismore, Murad Qureshi - who are both UNISON members - and John Biggs, also gave union activists a chance to discuss the campaign with the candidates.

"Ken spoke about how he will put the needs of UNISON members and ordinary Londoners first by cutting fares, increasing the number of police on the streets, campaigning for a living rent, building homes for Londoners, restoring the campaign for the London Living Wage and standing up against attacks on public services," said John Gray of the Greater London UNISON Labour Link committee.

"We need to support Ken and the Labour candidates and return a Labour mayor and a Labour majority on the GLA on 3 May."

Wednesday, September 08, 2010

UNISON London Retired members: 1033.5 years old in experience

What a great picture from a UNISON London Region Retired members' training day.  This took place in June this year.

Chair of the UNISON London Retired Members' committee, Rob Beeston, is as usual, up front, well on the left and wearing a red jumper!

Retired members in UNISON are a great resource for the union.  Many branches could not function without their help. 

However, I think we would agree that we don't actually involve retired members enough and are in fact missing out by not fully utilising their collective experiences.