UNISON along with Barnet Alliance are hosting ‘Barnet Council not for Sale’ Conference Saturday 7 July 12 – 3pm Greek Cypriot Centre, Britannia Road, Britannia Road, North Finchley, London N12 9RU Guest speakers Professor Dexter Whitfield Andy Mudd APSE Consultant John Dix aka Mr Reasonable (local resident & Blogger) Aberdeen UNISON […]
The Save Our Placards project ais to preserve all those wonderful hand drawn banners and placards that would otherwise end up in the bin somewhere. Personally speaking, I far prefer the home made placards than the mass produced ones because they are sally funnier and because, more seriously, they don’t […]
While we know that Labour polled very strongly in the Assembly seats (detail) and the Greens made their move forwards to third place above the Lib Dems look far easier than it was in reality (detail) these are the simply the two highest profile parties who attract left of center […]
Becky Wright is the Director of the TUC’s Organising Academy which is responsible for the development and delivery of the TUC’s training programme for union organisers and officers. She regularly blogs on Stronger Unions (www.strongerunions.org) The local elections are over, France and Greece have seen people vote for an alternative […]
Grassroots: growing people power We’re a community of trade unionists and progressive organisations committed to tackling the big challenges we face right now. To do that we’ve set up Grassroots, a conference and space that lets us share and hear the most exciting and practical ideas on campaigning, organising and mobilisation. This year, […]
Yesterday hundreds of members of the RMT London Taxi Branch took to the streets in their cabs at Stratford in a go-slow protest. The cabbies are concerned that Transport for London (TfL) and the Mayor are pursuing policies that are undermining the trade. In the run-up to the Olympics they […]
Over at the Anderson Shelter they think it’s time we sack Boris to support taxi drivers. There’s a new issue of Pea Soup magazine out – check it out! Myths, superheroes, Olympics and more. The Cat’s Meat Shop have some great London pics from 19th century London. Talking of the underground, […]
Darren Johnson writes in the Huffington Post on Boris Island. Important! You must see this! Dogs on trains. Another cycling victory. After a very long wait driver who threatened to kill cyclist finally convicted. Road.cc Michael Rosen spent the day working with kids in Richmond. Lambeth teachers unions are locking horns […]
The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has put together this lovely little video for the November 30th strikes. Let’s worker together and good luck to everyone on strike today.
The union UNITE has brought out the following video on their perspective of Wednesday’s strikes
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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