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This defeat has been hard to take. Hard on our members, hard on the Labour Party and most importantly it will mean hard times for Britain. As the debate begins to move on there are a small number of Ed's legacies we must not lose sight of…
At a meeting of it's Scottish forum, members of the trade union Community this morning vote to back Jim Murphy to be Leader of the Scottish Labour Party and Kezia Dugdale to be Deputy Leader. The members said that they thought Murphy’s…
St George’s Day is popular in Wigan. Scouts and Brownies take to the streets for an annual St. George’s Day Parade, and the town comes out in force to mark the occasion. Despite the sad efforts of a few far right groups, it remains a…
Community General Secretary Michael Leahy OBE announced today at Community's biennial conference his plan to retire later this year. Leahy took up the post in 1999 after previously being the union's Assistant General Secretary, and is also…
The tensions within the trade union movement over a mooted General Strike rose to the surface today as Community's General Secretary Michael Leahy attacked the plans in his conference speech, saying: Conference, if we are truly to be a…
Labour MSP John Park today announced that he will step down as a Member of the Scottish Parliament to take up a senior post in the trade union movement - as policy and strategy director of Community. He will leave Holyrood on December 7th…
By Stephen Twigg MP and Michael J Leahy In May 2010 Labour held seats that were expected to fall to the Conservatives. Eight of the 90 Tory target seats stayed red. The Liberal Democrats held on to another 11. Labour activists, through…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 A second union has come out in support of David Miliband to be next Labour leader. The Community Union, which represents workers in steel, metal, textiles, footwear, leather, betting shops and social care and…
