Seasons Greetings and a Happy Birthday.

Hello all,
Whilst you've all been enjoying your break I've been helping sort out a left wing slate for unison's NEC whilst dying from swine flu (sympathy please!)

Nomination period for unisons nec opens on the 11th of January so watch this space for some of the candidates from the left soon.

And whilst I'm here happy birthday to Jon Rogers of www.jonrogers1963.blogspot.com fame :) have a good one, and thank you for doing all you do for me personally and the movement, love ya comrade.

MarshaJane

Unison service group election results

Yet again unison have put the results up on the website before they have
notified the candidates.
Results were meant to be announced on the 22nd December 2010 - but were up on
the website late last night.
 
Congrats to all those elected - especially Sandy and Matt in Higher Ed :)
 
 
2010 Service Group Executive by-election
Summary resultsService Group Seat Elected memberCommunity
West Midlands Female Christine Durnall
Energy
Eastern General Ann Chappell
Eastern Female Margaret Wilkinson
Greater London Female Melanie Russell
Scotland Female Elaine Duffy
South East General Julie Williams
West Midlands Female Julie Hanna
Yorkshire & Humberside General Christopher Holmes
Yorkshire & Humberside Female Jennifer Middleton
Health
East Midlands General Chris Fenton
East Midlands Reserved Merlyn Wilson
Greater London ReservedHayley Richards
West Midlands Reserved Mary Locke
Yorkshire & Humberside Reserved Sheila Hepworth
Higher Education
Greater London General Sandy Nicoll
West Midlands General Matthew Raine
Local Government
South East Female Jane Armitage
South East Reserved Lindsay Williams
Police & Justice
North West General Clive Haslam
Water, Environment & Transport
 Greater London Female Amanda Bailey
Greater London Male Sikander Rashid
Scotland Male Stephen Scott
 
http://www.unison.org.uk/elections/pages_view.asp?did=12228

MarshaJane

Letter to Guardian - Len McCluskey leading for Prentis and Kenny to follow

I sent this in following the guardians appalling editorial today http://is.gd/j3w9J

Sir,

Your Leader column tells trade unionists - in effect - that there is nothing we should do to resist cuts coming from a Government, and in which you deride us for referring to them as ConDems (Trade unions: Leading nowhere, 20 December).

You denounce Len McCluskey for " indiscriminate opposition to all cuts." Why is this?

Is it because you support the "savage cuts" which Vince Cable advocated even before you asked us to vote for him in May?

Or is it just that now you see the consequences of this "new" politics of coalition you find yourselves, in the middle of the road, frozen in the headlights of the coming attack on our welfare state?

As a trade unionist I think it is about time the leadership of the big 3 unions (UNITE,UNISON and GMB) start fighting back and I hope to see Dave Prentis (UNISON) and Paul Kenny (GMB) following Mcluskey's lead.

Yours
Marshajane Thompson

MarshaJane