John's Labour blog Industrial action agreed in Imperial College Greater London tomorrow
Updated: 2023-06-28 05:02:40
: John's Labour blog My own personal blog . UNISON National Convenor London Regional Council Officer Chair of its Labour Link , Newham Councillor for West Ham Ward , Vice Chair of Local Authority Pension Fund Forum , Pension trustee , Housing Safety Practitioner . Centre left and proud member of Labour movement family . Strictly no trolls . please Tuesday , June 27, 2023 Industrial action agreed in Imperial College Greater London tomorrow To Branch Committee at UNISON Imperial College branch The Regional Convenor team have been updated on the successful ballot result and strike action planned by your members over pay starting . tomorrow As the cost-of-living crisis worsens , particularly in London , we support you in your fight for an improved pay offer and send our solidarity and support
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: , John's Labour blog My own personal blog . UNISON National Convenor London Regional Council Officer Chair of its Labour Link , Newham Councillor for West Ham Ward , Vice Chair of Local Authority Pension Fund Forum , Pension trustee , Housing Safety Practitioner . Centre left and proud member of Labour movement family . Strictly no trolls . please Monday , June 26, 2023 Vulnerable children will be affected if adoption agency staff lose jobs , says UNISON Check out UNISON press release below but this dreadful story is even worse than it appears since Coram is refusing to recognise UNISON and refusing to meet our organisers Why on earth are they refusing to recognise the UN recognised human rights of their staff to Union protection and collective bargaining I will be checking with Newham
: John's Labour blog My own personal blog . UNISON National Convenor London Regional Council Officer Chair of its Labour Link , Newham Councillor for West Ham Ward , Vice Chair of Local Authority Pension Fund Forum , Pension trustee , Housing Safety Practitioner . Centre left and proud member of Labour movement family . Strictly no trolls . please Sunday , June 25, 2023 Out and about for Labour in Uxbridge South Ruislip Danny Beales Today I joined UNISON and Labour union colleagues to canvass for Labour in the Uxbridge South Ruislip by election . A certain Boris Johnson has stood down as the MP for the area for reasons everyone is aware The Labour candidate , Danny Beales , is a UNISON member and was nominated as a PPC by UNISON Greater London Labour Link It was very hot 31C and one member
: John's Labour blog My own personal blog . UNISON National Convenor London Regional Council Officer Chair of its Labour Link , Newham Councillor for West Ham Ward , Vice Chair of Local Authority Pension Fund Forum , Pension trustee , Housing Safety Practitioner . Centre left and proud member of Labour movement family . Strictly no trolls . please Saturday , June 24, 2023 Out and about for Labour in Boleyn This morning after my West Ham ward Councillor surgery , I cycled over and joined Labour colleagues in Boleyn ward to deliver Direct messages to local residents . I missed the local MP , Sir Stephen Timms who had been with teams earlier but did join the Mayor , Candidate Sofia Patel and local Councillors and activists , walking up and down stairs delivering these messages . nbsp It was
: John's Labour blog My own personal blog . UNISON National Convenor London Regional Council Officer Chair of its Labour Link , Newham Councillor for West Ham Ward , Vice Chair of Local Authority Pension Fund Forum , Pension trustee , Housing Safety Practitioner . Centre left and proud member of Labour movement family . Strictly no trolls . please Saturday , June 24, 2023 Out and about for Labour in Wall End Yesterday evening I was delivering leaflets and direct messages with my Councillor and trade union colleague , Zuber Gulamussen . He works in the railways and is about to start further strike action over pay in the coming weeks . nbsp I have not campaigned in this part of Newham before and was impressed by the many beautiful front gardens . nbsp Posted by John Gray at Saturday , June
: John's Labour blog My own personal blog . UNISON National Convenor London Regional Council Officer Chair of its Labour Link , Newham Councillor for West Ham Ward , Vice Chair of Local Authority Pension Fund Forum , Pension trustee , Housing Safety Practitioner . Centre left and proud member of Labour movement family . Strictly no trolls . please Friday , June 23, 2023 Neil Guild Labour Candidate for Somerton and Frome By Election 2023 Congratulations to Neil Guild , our UNISON Regional Convenor for the South West , who has been selected by Labour to be our candidate in the Somerton and Frome By . Election I have known Neil for a number of years and last week I sat next to him , at UNISON National Delegate Conference , since we were both delegates for our regions . nbsp Neil is a senior
: John's Labour blog My own personal blog . UNISON National Convenor London Regional Council Officer Chair of its Labour Link , Newham Councillor for West Ham Ward , Vice Chair of Local Authority Pension Fund Forum , Pension trustee , Housing Safety Practitioner . Centre left and proud member of Labour movement family . Strictly no trolls . please Thursday , June 22, 2023 Windrush 75th anniversary London UNISON Newham This evening I attended two events remembering and celebrating the 75th anniversary of the ship , Empress Windrush , docking at Tilbury Port , Essex in 1948 with several hundred West Indian migrants , who came to the motherland in order to fill job vacancies and rebuild the UK after 6 years of Total War with Germany and Japan . nbsp At the UNISON HQ centre in Euston Road ,
: John's Labour blog My own personal blog . UNISON National Convenor London Regional Council Officer Chair of its Labour Link , Newham Councillor for West Ham Ward , Vice Chair of Local Authority Pension Fund Forum , Pension trustee , Housing Safety Practitioner . Centre left and proud member of Labour movement family . Strictly no trolls . please Thursday , June 22, 2023 Pen-blwydd hapus Shabs Happy 50th birthday to my good comrade , Cllr Shabab Mohammed , Cabinet lead for Housing Management . Enjoy your well deserved break Posted by John Gray at Thursday , June 22, 2023 Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Labels : Cllr Shaban Mohammed Housing newham council No : comments Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom
: John's Labour blog My own personal blog . UNISON National Convenor London Regional Council Officer Chair of its Labour Link , Newham Councillor for West Ham Ward , Vice Chair of Local Authority Pension Fund Forum , Pension trustee , Housing Safety Practitioner . Centre left and proud member of Labour movement family . Strictly no trolls . please Wednesday , June 21, 2023 UNISON Labour Link Labour Unions supporting Danny Beales for Uxbridge South Ruislip By Election This Sunday 25 June UNISON Labour Link and London Labour Unions are out supporting Danny Beales UNISON member and his team in the important Uxbridge South Ruislip by election . This of course follows the resignation of its previous MP , a certain Boris Johnson . nbsp No matter how bad the fall out for the tories from the
: : , John's Labour blog My own personal blog . UNISON National Convenor London Regional Council Officer Chair of its Labour Link , Newham Councillor for West Ham Ward , Vice Chair of Local Authority Pension Fund Forum , Pension trustee , Housing Safety Practitioner . Centre left and proud member of Labour movement family . Strictly no trolls . please Tuesday , June 20, 2023 Country Walking : Harlestone , Northamptonshire walk On way back from Wales yesterday , Gill and I broke the journey by stopping off for this 4.71 mile circular walk on the OS site pay wall via Country Walking magazine . nbsp A fantastic walk , we have never been to this part of the world before and were amazed at the scenery and the beautiful , historic villages and hamlets . nbsp The weather was warm but no thunder
: John's Labour blog My own personal blog . UNISON National Convenor London Regional Council Officer Chair of its Labour Link , Newham Councillor for West Ham Ward , Vice Chair of Local Authority Pension Fund Forum , Pension trustee , Housing Safety Practitioner . Centre left and proud member of Labour movement family . Strictly no trolls . please Monday , June 19, 2023 Turning Nazi V2 Rocket sites into Wild Flowers Memorial Many thanks to Cllr Asser , Cabinet member for Environment , for getting the impact site of a West Ham ward Nazi V2 Rocket attack on 1 Feb 1945, turned into a beautiful wild flowers memorial . 29 Residents were killed that night and many more injured . nbsp Every time I go past this site Now called Marriot Road after a local Firefighter also killed in that war by enemy
: John's Labour blog My own personal blog . UNISON National Convenor London Regional Council Officer Chair of its Labour Link , Newham Councillor for West Ham Ward , Vice Chair of Local Authority Pension Fund Forum , Pension trustee , Housing Safety Practitioner . Centre left and proud member of Labour movement family . Strictly no trolls . please Sunday , June 18, 2023 Fathers Day 2023 Today is always a little difficult for me and no doubt my sisters Helen and Lucy despite it being over 21 years since we lost our father , John Gray , in 2002. Picture from his Labour Party election leaflet for Buckley Town Council in late 1950's . But I do get great joy at all my family and friends who genuinely celebrate or remember their Fathers on this day . nbsp Nuf . said Posted by John Gray at Sunday
: : John's Labour blog My own personal blog . UNISON National Convenor London Regional Council Officer Chair of its Labour Link , Newham Councillor for West Ham Ward , Vice Chair of Local Authority Pension Fund Forum , Pension trustee , Housing Safety Practitioner . Centre left and proud member of Labour movement family . Strictly no trolls . please Saturday , June 17, 2023 UNISON National Delegate Conference 2023 : Day 4 Final Day of Conference Friday It started with an informal meeting with shadow minister for mental health , Rosena Allin-Khan MP with Greater London UNISON delegates . Who shared with Rosena unison issues and successes in health , LAS , Police Justice and Housing Associations . Rosena spoke later to conference on Labour's vision to deal with the mental health crisis . I
: John's Labour blog My own personal blog . UNISON National Convenor London Regional Council Officer Chair of its Labour Link , Newham Councillor for West Ham Ward , Vice Chair of Local Authority Pension Fund Forum , Pension trustee , Housing Safety Practitioner . Centre left and proud member of Labour movement family . Strictly no trolls . please Thursday , June 15, 2023 UNISON National Delegate Conference 2023- Day three Today Thursday I still have conference lurgy so skipped the morning run again . Another glorious blue sky day . Nice to have a name check in the Morning Star from yesterday's debate the NEC shouldn't go off and be a lone ranger and picture of my Community NEC colleague Denise Thomas . nbsp As regional delegates Yvonne and I spent most of the morning collecting and then
: John's Labour blog My own personal blog . UNISON National Convenor London Regional Council Officer Chair of its Labour Link , Newham Councillor for West Ham Ward , Vice Chair of Local Authority Pension Fund Forum , Pension trustee , Housing Safety Practitioner . Centre left and proud member of Labour movement family . Strictly no trolls . please Thursday , June 15, 2023 UNISON NDC 23 Labour Link Fringe with Angela Rayner MP Christina McAnea There was a great fringe yesterday evening by UNISON Labour Link with former activist Angela Rayner turned MP and our General Secretary Christina McAnea chaired by National Labour Link lead , Linda Hobson Angela was on form with a confident , at times funny but completely persuasive political message of hope and then Q A that if Labour wins power in
: : : John's Labour blog My own personal blog . UNISON National Convenor London Regional Council Officer Chair of its Labour Link , Newham Councillor for West Ham Ward , Vice Chair of Local Authority Pension Fund Forum , Pension trustee , Housing Safety Practitioner . Centre left and proud member of Labour movement family . Strictly no trolls . please Wednesday , June 14, 2023 UNISON National Delegate Conference 2023 : Day 2 Industrial Action Ballots : Composite D debate Today I moved a composite motion on behalf of London and Eastern region , Private Contractors , North Northamptonshire LG Newcastle Hospitals . nbsp The current NEC opposed the motion despite previously supporting it for in my view , pretty bizzare and self defeating reasons . However , the motion was defeated
: : John's Labour blog My own personal blog . UNISON National Convenor London Regional Council Officer Chair of its Labour Link , Newham Councillor for West Ham Ward , Vice Chair of Local Authority Pension Fund Forum , Pension trustee , Housing Safety Practitioner . Centre left and proud member of Labour movement family . Strictly no trolls . please Tuesday , June 13, 2023 UNISON National Delegate Conference 2023 : Tuesday Day one This morning I went for a early morning run aka slow jog west of the Mersey then was in the Conference centre for the first day of National Delegate Conference , as one of the two London regional delegates with Yvonne . Green There was a bit of confusion with where our delegates had to sit since one row of seats had been double booked with East Midland region so
: : John's Labour blog My own personal blog . UNISON National Convenor London Regional Council Officer Chair of its Labour Link , Newham Councillor for West Ham Ward , Vice Chair of Local Authority Pension Fund Forum , Pension trustee , Housing Safety Practitioner . Centre left and proud member of Labour movement family . Strictly no trolls . please Monday , June 12, 2023 UNISON National Delegate Conference 2023 : Monday I arrived yesterday to attend the National briefing for all Regional delegates by the General Secretary . Afterwards I went for a meal with fellow delegates , most of whom were fellow Labour Link activists . This morning I went for my early morning run in Liverpool along the River Mersey to say hello to the Beatles and the Liver birds . nbsp Then there was a rather full on
: : John's Labour blog My own personal blog . UNISON National Convenor London Regional Council Officer Chair of its Labour Link , Newham Councillor for West Ham Ward , Vice Chair of Local Authority Pension Fund Forum , Pension trustee , Housing Safety Practitioner . Centre left and proud member of Labour movement family . Strictly no trolls . please Sunday , June 11, 2023 UNISON National Delegates Conference 2023 : Regional Delegates Briefing Today I went to Liverpool in advance of our UNISON National Delegate Conference NDC for a briefing as a regional delegate . Yvonne Green and I were elected at our AGM to be the Greater London regional delegates at conference , supporting our delegates at NDC and representing the region . nbsp UNISON is the largest union in the UK with 1.3 million
: John's Labour blog My own personal blog . UNISON National Convenor London Regional Council Officer Chair of its Labour Link , Newham Councillor for West Ham Ward , Vice Chair of Local Authority Pension Fund Forum , Pension trustee , Housing Safety Practitioner . Centre left and proud member of Labour movement family . Strictly no trolls . please Saturday , June 10, 2023 Meet at West Ham Champions Statute This morning I joined our Labour candidate , Sofia Patel and her team at the Champions Statute . This was the starting point of the West Ham FC victory tour on Thursday following their celebration parade upon winning the Eurora Conference League cup . nbsp Well done to West Ham and the many , many thousands of fans who turned out that day to celebrate their fantastic victory . nbsp This
: John's Labour blog My own personal blog . UNISON National Convenor London Regional Council Officer Chair of its Labour Link , Newham Councillor for West Ham Ward , Vice Chair of Local Authority Pension Fund Forum , Pension trustee , Housing Safety Practitioner . Centre left and proud member of Labour movement family . Strictly no trolls . please Thursday , June 08, 2023 Re-elected to UNISON National Executive Council NEC 2023-25 This morning the biannual UNISON NEC election results were announced and I was pleased that both Denise Thomas and I were elected after a one term 2 year gap representing Community Service Group all Housing Association and Charity UNISON members . nbsp Respect to my tfrc opponent for my seat , Kevin Jackson , who has acted well in this contest , unlike in my view