What’s Left?
From @LabourList Gabe Trodd on expenses and the culture of instant gratification. Kerry McCarthy MP on window cleaning and members taking 7 hours to review their expenses forms. Alastair Campbell warns us we cannot allow the expenses…
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Let’s not forget about the good guys!
By A Supporter To restore faith in the political process after the expenses outrage we must not now be convinced that Parliament is populated solely by penny-pinching paragons of greed. I refuse to believe that every Member of Parliament is…
What’s Left?
From @LabourList Societarian reminds us of the Tory frontbenchers who voted against the National Minimum Wage. Paul Burgin remembers John Smith on the 15th anniversary of his death. Mary Honeyball gets a good response campaining in Ilford…
Show some wage concern and back our campaign against the Tory Minimum Wage opt-out bill
By Alex Ross / @Alex_Ross1983 UPDATE: John Prescott asks David Cameron to reject the Bill that would effectively abolish the minimum wage. On May 15th, a Private Members Bill will be debated and voted on in Parliament, allowing employers to…
You’ve made your bed; now lie in it
By Cat Smith /@IDontDoTwitta In the 2007 Labour Party leadership 'election' there was one candidate and no ballot paper. The coronation of Brown as leader of the Labour Party was not helpful for internal Labour Party democracy and in the…
Disability Rights: Now is Labour’s chance!
By A Supporter At the beginning of the year I saw Gus Van Sant's excellent film Milk. In it, Harvey Milk (played by Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn) mobilises the gay community of San Francisco to fight Proposition 6, an "initiative" that…
My weekend away with John Prescott
By Mark Hanson / @MarkHanson I spent half the bank holiday weekend in the back of John Prescott's 'battle mini-bus', touring the North of England, pitching up in city centres and actually meeting real voters face-to-face - a revolutionary…
United we stand
By Carmen Wright I am employed as a stage manager, lighting designer and technician at The Drum in Birmingham, a venue dedicated to developing and promoting the contemporary art and culture of the British African, Asian and Caribbean…
How small union changes can make a big difference to the workplace
By Andy Neatham One of the most difficult tasks faced by local trade union reps is succession planning and recruiting other members to take an active part in trade union organisation. Why this should be so is often puzzling to those of us…
Unions should be leading by example and practising what they preach – A personal perspective
By Linda Weatherhead Unions are not the best workplaces. I have worked for a number of unions, one in the UK, and every time I, as an employee, raised a workplace issue the response was always along the lines of "If you think it is bad here…
After 5 minutes they were still applauding – now let’s mobilise black workers
By Simon Woolley I'd never been to Scarborough before. It's charming and rather beautiful! And it was made even more special by the glorious spring sunshine. Sadly, I wasn't there to enjoy my surroundings but to participate as guest speaker…
Environmental Representatives are crucial to creating greener workplaces
By Jane McCann Recently Green issues have been at the forefront of the media, from the G20 Summit and the marches in London to the new Climate Act and the first "green" budget. There is a growing consciousness that we live on a planet which…