I had a brief meeting in the PCS Regional office this afternoon. We were discussing the latest newsletter, which by default and inaction (from the rest of the editorial team) was left to me to collect the latest articles.
I thought I was going to be taught how to produce/collate the newsletter. I was quite [...]
Archive for the tag 'Trade Union'
Filed under Anecdotes
Floozy in the Jacuzzi
16 Comments CherryPie on Jul 9th 2009
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PhotoHunt – Flags
Campaigning through the years:
For more of this weeks PhotoHunt pictures check out tnchick.
27 Comments CherryPie on Jun 27th 2009
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Palestine; Personal Perspectives
At a recent Trades Council meeting we had a talk from a member who had been on a sponsored visit to Palestine. He showed us slides of the village of Aboud, which is where he stayed. Aboud is cut off from the hills and fields around it by the “Separation Wall”, which means that children [...]
28 Comments CherryPie on Jun 24th 2009
Yesterday I attended a PCS privatisation forum in London, which set out to inform and prepare reps for the continuing and increasing threat of privatisation to public services. There were many interesting speakers who explained how the various initiatives are flawed and do not provide better, cheaper more efficient public services. One of the speakers [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jun 12th 2009
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John McDonnell Conference Speech
John McDonnell started his speech by talking about the recent scandal of MP’s expenses and said we should all be very angry. He went on to say that the solution wasn’t just sacking a few MPs. The crisis is systemic, the Political crisis and the economic crisis are not isolated they are two sides [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 8th 2009
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Brighton Seafront
I have nearly come to the end of my conference postings, so you can all breath a sigh of relief
I have shown you the conference hall, covered some of the debates, fringe meetings and guest speakers (one more to come). Today I am going to share with you the seafront at Brighton. How [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Jun 4th 2009
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Make Your Vote Count
During recent weeks PCS members and reps have been speaking and writing to MPs who will be standing in the upcoming election. The results with only 2 days left before polling day show that most of the Conservative or Labour candidates are not interested in engaging in the process:
PCS and its members asked a series [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Jun 2nd 2009
