Labour Party NEC results

Elected
Ken Livingstone - 88,235

Oona King - 64,004

Ann Black - 59,200

Ellie Reeves - 45,481

Christine Shawcroft - 44,338

Luke Akehurst - 30,825

Not Elected:

Johanna Baxter - 30,653

Peter Willsman - 29,009

Peter Wheeler - 28,752

Deborah Gardiner - 27,531

Sam Tarry - 27,166

Shaukat Ali - 21,881

Peter Kenyon - 18,650

Sofi Taylor - 18,557

Susan Press - 15,465

Rajwant Singh Sidhu - 13,252

Narinder Singh Matharoo - 13,060

Kevin Bennett - 12,976

John Wiseman - 10,999

Julian Ware-Lane - 7,722
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Support Elane Heffernan -Disabled staff have the right to work

Please see below information and send emails supporting Elane to Newham  PCT (NHS Newham)  Melanie.Walker@newhampct.nhs.uk
and the London Borough of Newham LBN simon.galczynski@newham.gov.uk
and cc messages to letelanework@yahoo.co.uk 

Attached is a petition for people to sign - if you could print it off get signatures from your workplace/contacts and get it back to us that would be great.

Thanks
Mj

Disabled staff have the right to work

End The Victimisation of union activist Elane Heffernan 

I am writing to ask that NHS Newham and LBN immediately provide UNISON activist Elane Heffernan with the same working conditions enjoyed by her team mate and allow her to work with her team mate where she can see patients and use her disability adapted equipment. This is necessary so that she can attend work without sickness absence and run the well respected Migrant Advice & Advocacy Service. I also ask that her employer Newham Council stop forcing her to work in conditions that cause severe pain and exacerbate her disability

 

Since returning to the MAAP project from a period of secondment to the UNISON office at the council, Elane has been placed in such bad working conditions that she has been signed off sick repeatedly—making her unavailable to service users and union members and at risk of being sacked for sickness absence.

 

I am aware that Elane has complained on a number of occasions to LBN about harassment when carrying out her union duties—most notably in July 2008 when the council refused to take any action about a striker breaker driving his car at Elane at high speed and only narrowly missing her. I am also aware that on returning from secondment to the union, emails between the PCT manager and the council's HR refer to special preparations for sickness absence meetings because of her union role. 

 

I am disappointed that Elane has had to fight for so long to get adaptions and at present often has to see patients at a coffee table--which is not suitable for the shoulder and neck problems she has had since an accident at work in 2006. 

 

I am especially concerned that Elane was placed on "gardening leave" and accused of misconduct after complaining that her manager had issued her with instructions not to use her disability adapted equipment and to work instead with pen and paper at improperly adapted desks when seeing patients.

 

I understand that since Elane has been reinstated she is  forced to work in isolation in conditions that are extremely difficult—and fear this will affect her health or force her resignation, which would mean a 50% cut in the service provided to the vulnerable patients and residents now served by the MAAP project. Such a cut is not acceptable.

 

Elane's frequent absences from work due to the worsening of her  disability robs council workers of an effective rep and damages the MAAP service on which some of the most vulnerable people in Newham rely.

 

We demand that this victimisation ends and NHS Newham and the council take seriously their commitment to equality and the rights of disabled workers and reinstate Elane to her team office where adapted equipment can function and to the full duties from which she was suspended in December 2009.

 I understand that both NHS Newham and LBN have policies that should enable and support workers with disabilities and I believe that the treatment Elane has suffered since 2008 is not in keeping with those policies—in particular with the social model of disability that NHS Newham has rightly espoused as the standard for its staff.

 

Yours truly

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Tower Hamlets : Labour Party NEC run roughshod over Democracy again

Tower Hamlets Labour Party members selected Cllr Lutfur Rahman as Labour's candidate for directly elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets (the first elections for this post, introduced after a referendum in May, take place on 21st October). 

That selection took place on 4th September. The Labour Party NEC has today OVERTURNED that selection and imposed a different candidate. 

They did so because some members had put in complaints about the selection process. 

The NEC gave Lutfur Rahman no notice of having received complaints, and no chance to reply. The NEC has imposed Cllr Helal Uddin Abbas as their candidate for the election. 

Abbas received 117 first preference votes (Lutfur had received 394) and was in third place after the last round of counting. 

The LP NEC is using bureaucratic means (unsubstantiated complaints, trumped up complaints) to overturn party members' selected candidate and to impose a stooge candidate. 

This will in any event backfire: Lutfur is so popular in the community that any imposed Labour candidate will not win.  (This is the Borough where Oona King lost to George Galloway, and another Regional favourite - former Council Leader Michael Keith - has lost three times.)  The racism in the NEC decision will also have a negative effect on local politics.

WE NEED AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE TO EMAIL AND PHONE ANN BLACK AND HELAL ABBAS AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE - BY 4PM TODAY IF POSSIBLE (BUT AFTER THAT IS HELPFUL TOO).

Contact details, and suggested email texts, are given below.  Thank you for your help. 

PLEASE PASS THIS MESSAGE ON IMMEDIATELY AS WIDELY AS YOU CAN.EMAIL ANN BLACK (please send to both addresses)
ablack@brookes.ac.uk

annblack50@btinternet.com
Dear AnnI understand that the Labour Party NEC has today decided not to endorse Cllr Lutfur Rahman as Labour's candidate for Mayor of Tower Hamlets, even though he was the overwhelming choice of Labour Party members in Tower Hamlets. 

I understand that the Labour Party has asked Cllr Helal Uddin Abbas to stand as the Labour Party candidate, though he only received some 10% of the first preferences cast and was ultimately in third place.I am asking you to stand by Tower Hamlets Labour Party members and not to proceed with the NEC's decision. 

To overturn  our preferred candidate now would cause immense division in the local Party and the community which can only benefit our opponents.Please confirm that you will ask the NEC to support the wishes of Tower Hamlets Labour Party members.

Ann Black:   07956-637 958(You can also leave a message on 01865-722 230)

EMAIL CLLR HELAL UDDIN ABBAS cllr.helal.abbas@towerhamlets.gov.uk

Dear Cllr Abbas,I understand that the Labour Party NEC has today decided not to endorse Cllr Lutfur Rahman as Labour's candidate for Mayor of Tower Hamlets, even though he was the overwhelming choice of Labour Party members in Tower Hamlets. 

I understand that the Labour Party has asked you to stand as the Labour Party candidate, though you only received some 10% of the first preferences cast and were ultimately in third place.

I am asking you to stand by Tower Hamlets Labour Party members and not to accept the NEC's invitation.  You know very well the division your candidacy would cause in the local Party and the community which can only benefit our opponents.

Please confirm that you will ask the NEC to support the wishes of Tower Hamlets Labour Party members.Abbas:  07956 111303
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Fw: London LRC bulletin - the voting begins

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From: "LRC Information" <info@l-r-c.org.uk>

Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 17:40:37 +0100

To: <info@l-r-c.org.uk>

ReplyTo: <info@l-r-c.org.uk>

Subject: London LRC bulletin - the voting begins

LABOUR REPRESENTATION COMMITTEE

http://www.l-r-c.org.uk

*Please forward this email to other Labour Party members*

 

Labour’s Future – voting begins

 

Labour Party members will have four important ballot papers land on their doormat this week with elections for Labour leader, Labour Party NEC, the National Policy Forum, and a vote on the Labour candidate for London Mayor in 2012.

 

·         The LRC is critically supporting Diane Abbott as first preference for Labour leader and you can read the LRC statement on the Labour leadership on the LRC website

·         We are asking you to Back Susan Press and Christine Shawcroft for the NEC – and to download their statements to distribute among fellow Labour Party members.

·         The LRC backs Ken Livingstone as Labour candidate for London Mayor

·         In elections for the National Policy Forum for London region, please support Gary Heather (http://www.l-r-c.org.uk/files/garyheather_NPF.pdf) and Gordon Nardell (http://www.l-r-c.org.uk/files/gordonnardell_NPF.pdf). Please circulate their statements to fellow Labour Party members

 

 

News in brief

 

The next meeting of the Greater London LRC will take place on Saturday 4 September from 12pm, at the RMT, 39 Chalton Street, London, NW1 (nearest station: Euston) – open to all London-based LRC members

 

The LRC vs HOPI cricket match on Sunday raised over £1000 for Workers Fund Iran – thanks to all those involved

 

RMT members will be taking strike action on the London Underground, along with their comrades in the TSSA. Watch the video ‘RMT and TSSA London Undergroudn strike - September 2010’ and join picket lines from Monday (6 Sep) evening at your local tube station. Full report at: http://www.rmt.org.uk/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=138676&int1stParentNodeID=89732

 

CLPs also have the opportunity to put contemporary motions  to Labour Party conference again this year. The LRC has drafted two motions on Tax Justice (download pdf file) and on the Lawful Industrial Action Bill (download pdf) and we urge you to try to get one passed by your CLP. Please email info@l-r-c.org.uk to let us know if you get either of these motions passed (CLPs can only submit one contemporary motion or rule change to conference).