John's Labour blog Is it about time we broke up these mega monopolies housing associations
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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 Sunday , July 30, 2023 Is it about time we broke up these mega monopolies housing associations L Q is headquartered in Newham and is also one of the largest UNISON shops in my branch . So I have had a fair amount of contact and sometimes conflict with L Q over the years . nbsp Check out this Inside Housing Report on Friday . I won't comment on the horrendous specifics and strongly believe that all large Housing Association bosses are thinking
: 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 please Saturday , July 29, 2023 Out-of-date mileage rates are driving workers into poverty See this report below by workers being completely ripped off by being expected to use their cars to go to work but not being compensated for the cost for work related mileage https : magazine.unison.org.uk 2023 07 18 out-of-date-mileage-rates-are-driving-workers-into-poverty Clarion Housing Group got rid of decent car allowances for most lower paid workers but
: , 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 , July 28, 2023 Lies , threats and actual ACAS advice on fire and rehire Clarion UNISON Facebook link So called Social Mission landlord Clarion Housing Association has bullied and threatened hundreds of its workers to accept losing their defined benefit pension schemes by telling them they will be sacked without compensation , if they do not consent to the closing of their pension entitlement . UNISON has sent out advice to its members
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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 Thursday , July 27, 2023 Forever Leeds : The Leeds Uni Reunion 1981-2023 This week I met up with Leeds University friends for a reunion , after in some cases , some 39 years apart . 5 of us shared a house in Headingley , Leeds very close to the cricket ground All of us except Mike had met each other as members of the local UOTC training for a potential regular and territorial army officers unit attached to the University By coincidence , on our
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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 Wednesday , July 26, 2023 Elected to UNISON Labour Link National Committee Vote for Anu in regional elections On Monday I was really pleased to find out that I had been re-elected after 2 year gap of course to the UNISON National Labour Link Committee by NEC National Executive Council colleagues to the 12 seats that the NEC hold on that committee the others by regional and self-organised groups Labour Link is the UNISON political fund that 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 Sunday , July 23, 2023 Martin Lewis : Aged 45-72 Can you boost the State Pension or not but worth looking at asap Hat tip to Martin Lewis , who is a little cheesy as he admits but seemingly bang on the money on this important issue . At the risk of seeming like being a pension obsessive , I have spent most of today trying to working out whether Gill and I have to pay extra National Insurance contributions in order to maximise our possible new
: 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 , July 22, 2023 Labour's Pension Plan will bring Relief Happiness 1937 and no fire and rehire or breaking of promises Hat tip londonnurse2016 UNISON will be contacting key stakeholders about Clarion Housing Group attempt to break its promises to them and their staff over pensions . If Clarion breaks promises made in the past then how can you work with them and trust them to keep any future promises Posted by John Gray at Saturday , July
: 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 , July 19, 2023 Last chance to nominate for National Labour Link committee Dear Branch Secretary Labour Link Officer , nbsp There are just 5 working days left for your branch to nominate a candidate to the National Labour Link committee . Don't miss your chance to influence our work with the Labour Party Use that influence by nominating me , Anu Prashar . nbsp I am a member of Brent unison , and a member of the regional Labour Link
: 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 , July 18, 2023 Housing officers under pressure” Check out this thoughtful article by Inside Housing but I am afraid it pulls its punches . The simple truth is that many of our mega merger housing organisations not all have forgotten they are landlords in the quest to generate funds to cross subsidise new build . This means providing a housing service on the cheap . Closing local housing offices , providing rotten terms and conditions and
: 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 , July 17, 2023 Who is Mehmood Mirza Check this very good blog by Josephine on Newham 65 blog which I certainly do not always agree with and also make it clear that our Labour candidate , Sofia , at the by election was one of the hardest working , capable and all round nice person candidate I had ever worked with . I also declare that technically at least , I am also Josephine’s employer” again for third time Guest post by Josephine Grahl
: . 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 , July 16, 2023 Clarion UNISON Members to vote on action to save their Pensions stop being fired . On Friday this indicative strike ballot was sent to Clarion Housing Group UNISON Members being threatened illegally with either giving up their pensions or being fired possibly even without being rehired A full postal official ballot of all UNISON members in Clarion is also being planned due to an unilateral real terms pay cut imposed 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 Saturday , July 15, 2023 The reunion my first dreadful NEC meeting Yesterday evening I met up with my Unison comrades from my 14 years in Tower Hamlets Council housing department for a birthday celebration . It was great to meet up with Monty , Trev and even Dave . nbsp We had some beers then went to the family run Nepalese restaurant Aromas in Forest Gate for yet another ace meal . nbsp Especially after a simply dreadful Unison NEC meeting that
: , 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 , July 12, 2023 Clarion Housing Group must raise pay and stop pension cuts to avoid strike action , says UNISON Yep . My social mission employer is cutting my pay by up to 8 and also planning to sack me after 30 years of service and other UNISON members in November , in order for them to break the pensions promises they made to staff and local authorities Watch this . space UNISON Press release more to follow . Please pass . on https 
: 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 , July 11, 2023 Branches requested to nominate ANU PRASHAR to be London Rep on UNISON National Labour Link Committee Posted by John Gray at Tuesday , July 11, 2023 Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Labels : Anu Prashar Labour Link London UNISON No : comments Post a Comment Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom Search Join UNISON became a member online 24 7 or call free 0800 171 2194 or
: : 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 , July 10, 2023 UNISON National Labour Link 23 : Motion 12. Stop Bogus self-employment companies exploiting workers My speech to Forum . Chair , Forum , John Gray from Greater London Region , moving our regional motion on stopping bogus self-employment companies exploiting workers Forum , the recent BBC TV documentaries referenced in the motion have exposed the scandal of many thousands of worker being exploited by unscrupulous
: 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 , July 08, 2023 UNISON National Labour Link Forum 2023 Greater London Region speaks out This picture collage is of our delegation and other London members here in different roles speaking on the key debates during Forum yesterday . nbsp Posted by John Gray at Saturday , July 08, 2023 Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Labels : Greater London . Region UNISON UNISON National Labour Link Forum 2023 No 
: 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 , July 07, 2023 UNISON National Labour Link Forum 2023 6.7.23 Yesterday evening delegates to UNISON National Labour Link Forum the UNISON political fund that is affiliated to the Labour Party gathered in Newcastle . After a meeting of our Greater London delegation to decide on who to speak on motions , there was a reception with our General Secretary , Christina McAnea . This was a special time for UNISON following our recent 30th Birthday
: 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 , July 05, 2023 Happy 75th anniversary of the NHS Never forget that the Tories voted against the NHS in 1948 and the principle of free health care at the point of need . They simply cannot be trusted with it and we need a Labour Government in power to save the NHS and make it even more effective . nbsp Posted by John Gray at Wednesday , July 05, 2023 Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Labels : 75th
: 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 , July 04, 2023 Getting the Labour Postal Vote out in Boleyn On Saturday morning I joined Labour colleagues door knocking in the Boleyn ward by election in East Ham . The local Labour Candidate is Sofia Patel . Thanks to Mayor , Rokhsana Fiaz for main picture of us mostly trying to install the Labour doorstep information on our phones my attempt failed We were calling at residents who had previously said they were postal voters and we