The last few days has seen the sorry Falkirk affair return with a vengeance. Readers may remember that there were two people who had been seeking Labour’s parliamentary nomination for Falkirk who were accused of wrong doing in the recruitment of new members to that constituency party. One was left-wing Scottish Unite activist, Karie Murphy, former nurse and later office manager to […]
Posts Tagged ‘Unite’
The return of Falkirk – more skulduggery, same victim, same perpetrators
Mar 16th, 2015 by Jon Lansman.
20,000 London bus workers go on strike – with the public on their side
Jan 13th, 2015 by Jon Lansman.Picket lines were in place across London’s 70 bus garages today as over 20,000 bus workers working for 18 bus operators take part in a 24 hour strike to end unfair pay disparities across the capital’s bus network. With very solid support for the strike the bus workers’ union Unite urged TfL and the mayor of London […]
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Jerry Hicks complaint against Unite thrown out
Oct 28th, 2014 by Jon Lansman.Far left challenger to Len McCluskey in last year’s election for Unite general Secretary, Jerry Hicks, has lost his formal legal challenge to the Government’s Certification Officer. Having lost by144,570 votes to 79,819 in spite of backing from sections of the Right and every disgruntled member, his objection has finally been thrown out after a year […]
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A safe, secure, affordable home is a right
Sep 22nd, 2014 by Steve Turner.The following is the text of Unite Assistant General Secretary Steve Turner’s speech to Labour’s conference in Manchester We welcome Labour’s policy statements and the clear commitments contained within it to build more homes – and we equally welcome Ed Miliband’s comments yesterday. However, we must never forget that a – safe – secure and affordable roof over your head […]
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Len McCluskey warns now is not the time for heated arguments about Labour policy
Jun 30th, 2014 by Jon Lansman.Opening Unite’s policy conference in Liverpool today, Len McCluskey’s planned speech ranged across issues from the severity of Tory attacks on working people and their families (as well as on Unite itself) to the importance of electing a Labour government and the menace posed by UKIP. But for Labour and union activists keen to use Labour’s policy process to […]
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PCS conference defeats its executive motion on merger with Unite
May 21st, 2014 by Jon Lansman.The annual conference of civil service union PCS, after a lengthy debate described both as ‘heated‘ and ‘balanced‘, voted this morning to reject the motion from its executive on a merger between PCS and Unite, by 109,326 to 73,212 on a card vote. The conference did pass an emergency motion which, based on reports on Left Futures […]
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Is a Unite takeover of PCS desirable? Not if it divides the Labour movement
May 8th, 2014 by Jon Lansman.Discussions are, we hear, proceeding apace between Unite and civil service union, PCS, about what has until now been described within PCS as a merger but at the recent Unite executive (at which Len McCluskey got its backing for formal talks) was described as a “transfer of engagements“, aka “a takeover“. Many details remain to be discussed, but […]
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Left strengthens its control of Unite exec, but it’s not all good news (with full results)
Apr 27th, 2014 by Jon Lansman.The results of the the elections to Unite’s executive emerged yesterday, giving United Left, the left faction, 43 seats, the same number it had previously but on a slightly smaller executive (down from 65 to 63. Also elected were eight independents and eleven from Unite Now, the more centrist Labour loyalist faction, mainly from the former Amicus section. None […]
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In response to Labour party reforms, Unite halves affiliation payment to Labour
Mar 5th, 2014 by Jon Lansman.The Unite executive has been meeting this week and it was announced this evening that, in response to the decision of Labour’s special conference last weekend on ‘party reform’, the Unite affiliation to the Labour party will be cut by half in anticipation of the likelihood that fewer than half those currently paying the political […]
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Left likely to consolidate its influence on Unite executive – but will it remain a United Left?
Mar 4th, 2014 by Jon Lansman.Nominations closed last week for the elections to the executive of Unite, Britain’s biggest union, and, based on an analysis of the nominations received, it seems likely that the United Left which backed Len McCluskey for General Secretary and currently has a large majority on the executive is likely to consolidate its position. The executive […]
