Tag: Labour Party conference

"Housing chiefs enjoy bumper pay hikes"

grayee Sat Sep 20, 2008 at 03:36:46 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

Soon after I posted last month on the 32% pay increase (to £327,000pa) of the Housing Association boss of Anchor Trust, the UNISON office rang to warn me that someone who was “very angry” had rang them and was trying to contact me.

Now professionally and politically, it is not exactly unknown for “angry” people to want to contact me for various reasons. But when I actually spoke to this elderly person after she emailed me via this blog (who I have never met and whose voice was literally shaking with anger as she spoke) her fury was about this pay rise and ‘... how on earth was it allowed to happen...’ A good question.



BACK THE CONFERENCE CALL FOR LEADERSHIP RULE CHANGE!

grimupnorth Mon Sep 08, 2008 at 10:39:22 AM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

Every CLP in the country has now been circulated with the details of the rule change proposed by Calder Valley constituency. This is thanks to the joint efforts of the Campaign For Labour Party Democracy, Save the Labour Party and the Labour Representation Committee.



Harriet Rallies Labour Red Army?

grayee Thu Sep 27, 2007 at 05:44:29 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook



Back from conference as UNISON Labour Link delegate.  I felt that Harriet gave us a rousing speech at the end.  Psyching the activists up for a snap general election? I simply don’t know.  As I left Bournemouth this afternoon, many people thought it “likely”, especially if the Tories mess up their conference next week with internal rows and division. 

Tactically it does make sense, as everyone in the Labour movement at this moment is united and confident (for admittedly different reasons), the economy is going ok and Gordon is clearly ahead in the polls.



LOBBY OF LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE

newsnight Wed Jul 18, 2007 at 07:14:29 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook


My union, Unite, is organising a Rally and Demonstration at this year’s Labour Party Conference.  It will take place on Sunday 23rd September 2007 at 1.00 pm in Bournemouth. 

The theme of the event will be a demand for new government policy on manufacturing, employment rights – including agency and temporary workers, pensions and public services. 


This will be the first major demonstration that  has been organised under the banner of Unite, and hopefully, the full organisational force of nearly two million trade union members will make a significant impact on the conference. Perhaps it will also make this government finally recognise, that unless and until the rights of working people are taken seriously, the labour party cannot continue to take our support for granted.