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West Ham CLP and London UNISON Labour Link are sponsoring this debate on the AV vote in Stratford on Thursday evening 28 April 2011 (Workers Memorial Day!). John Debham MP will speak in favour of AV and Margaret Beckett MP will speak against.  The venue is only a short walk from...

A brilliant night with 600 packing the hall to pay tribute to 40 years of labour, trade union and tennant struggles in North East England, in Colombia and in Cuba. Song, dance, films and speakers...

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Ballot will open tomorow morning! So this is a call to all unison members to vote for the left slate in the UNISON elections. Most people who vote do so as soon as they get the ballot form so its important to talk to members in your workplace in the next week or two! Those who want publicity to...

Ballot papers are hitting doormats now in the UNISON NEC elections (apart from those of you with those irritating vertical letterboxes hinged at the top whose ballot papers are in envelopes folded amongst junk mail and leaflets for pizzas because you don't have a proper letterbox!) I shall use my...

WHEN I was a kid we got free school milk. We took it for granted, as well we might. As Winston Churchill, no less, had opined, there were few things more useful that governments could do than putting...

From tomorrow (Monday 11th April) France is introducing a ban on women covering their faces in public places, a ban which appears to be aimed squarely at Muslim women and the niqab. Whether intended...

  Last week, # Barnet easycouncil hosted a 'market day' for private sector companies interested in making a profit out of running public services in Barnet. read more

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Public against cuts On the eve of the March for the Alternative, the TUC released results of a YouGov poll showing that a majority of the British people backed the aims of the demonstration. Some 52...

NWAS staff joined other public sector workers to speak out against unfair, unnecessary spending cuts.

For a second time the people of Iceland have rejected a plan to repay €4bn (£3.5bn; $5.8bn) to Britain and the Netherlands from a bank crash, results showed yesterday. The 'no' in Saturday's...

Bahrain’s Government and employers are cracking down on union leaders and activists who took part in the general strike led by the Bahrain national trade union centre GFBTU with a campaign of mass...

Over 40,000 trade unionists marched through central Budapest yesterday in a demonstration timed to coincide with a meeting of EU Finance Ministers. Organised by the ETUC to protest at the Europe wide...

Spain, of beaten leather men carry as scarves neck-wise with heavy guns in their hands They stamp their feet blow on their fingers to ward off the cold coming back up from the south with...

This is the scanned picture of my Teid (my Welsh maternal grandfather) which I received yesterday morning.  In the beginning of the First World War there were too many volunteers for the Royal Navy. So Winston Churchill created the Royal Naval Division which fought on land but retained Naval...

A UNISON-sponsored rap song and video about the changes to the NHS is proving a massive hit on the internet, amidst a campaign to get it to number 1 on the iTunes charts