Monday, March 06, 2017

STRONGERUNISON - NEC Election 2017 - Regional Seats

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Recommendations for Regional UNISON NEC seats. Mitsy and I were handing out leaflets on Saturday to UNISON Community Conference delegat...

Newham ditches LOBOs pledging £94m in savings

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This has been one of the most popular stories on the Local Government finance website Room 151 recently . By Colin Marrs. LOBOS is the Spa...
Saturday, March 04, 2017

"New Tory White Paper - Putting Jobs & Residents at Risk". Emergency motion to UNISON Community Conference 2017

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On 7 February 2017 the Government issued a white paper on the future of housing in England. The paper had been trailed beforehand as bein...

STRONGERUNISON - NEC Election 2017 - National Seats

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It will soon be UNISON National Executive Committee elections. This morning I was outside Bournemouth Conference Centre with Greater Lond...
Friday, March 03, 2017

UNISON Community National Seminar & Conference 2017

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UNISON members that work for Housing Associations and the voluntary sector have an annual 2 day National Seminar and Conference.  This...
Thursday, March 02, 2017

Newham mayor ‘trigger ballot’: union confirms that affiliation fee not paid

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Check out Guardian Journalist, Dave Hill's blog. A second organisation whose vote helped Newham mayor Sir Robin Wales go forward un...
Wednesday, March 01, 2017

"Executive mayors and one-party councils"

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"As a councillor for the London borough of Newham, I find the  observations in your editorial  (22 February) linking one-party coun...
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

“I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilisation.” Newham Council Budget meeting 2017

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This was to be my speech last night at the Newham Council Meeting on the budget. There was a free vote for Labour Councillors (i.e all ...
Monday, February 27, 2017

"Unaccompanied Child Migrants" Forest Gate North Labour Party Branch meeting Thursday 2 March 2017

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This is a flyer for our next branch meeting. As well as usual Labour Party business there is a motion and debate on "" Unaccomp...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

Can we have a national DB pension scheme?

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My latest article for Professional Pensions . "John Gray says we need to do all we can to preserve defined benefit pension provisio...