📣 Hackney UNISON 🇵🇸

NEC 2025 elections – vote for a fighting union! Throughout its structures, UNISON is a lay member led union, and the national executive council (NEC) is the union’s senior decision-making body. It is re-elected every two years. Between conferenc…

From top to bottom, we are a lay-member-led union. The national executive council (NEC) is our senior decision-making body, re-elected every two years.

Make sure you use your vote; see the list of branch-nominated candidates and more info:

hackney.unison.site/2025/04/23/n...

The Teeswork Freeport corruption in short.

2 businessmen paid £110 for a £100m site.
We paid £462m to clean it up they paid nothing
They made £100m selling scrap metal from clean up, we received nothing.

Michael Gove covers it up.

The pool outside the US Embassy in London has been dyed red by Greenpeace to protest against their support for Israel's genocide.

Well done Greenpeace.

It would be great to see what the homes end up looking like too :)

📣 Our latest Hackney UNISON newsletter is out now 📣

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We welcome contributions! Email: hackney.unison@hackney.gov.uk with the subject 'Hacked Off!'

Design in green and yellow with lanterns and moon. Eid Mubarak from UNISON

Eid Mubarak to everyone celebrating Eid al-Fitr and the ending of the holy month of Ramadan.

Join us and Hackney @pscupdates.bsky.social from 17:30 tonight on the Town Hall steps -- tell the council to remember its history!

Happy International Women's Day!

London Region Young Members’ Forum

Young Members make up only around 1 in 13 members, but as the future of the union, your voice is vital.

To find out more talk to our own Young Members’ Officer: willow.enisrace@hackney.gov.uk

(Give us a reaction if you are 30 and under too...we can't all be!)

💪🏽🤵🏼‍♀️🤵🏽‍♀️🤵🏿‍♀️ *Celebrating Women’s History Month in Hackney and beyond* 💪🏽🤵🏼‍♀️🤵🏽‍♀️🤵🏿‍♀️

Events in Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Lewisham and Croydon to celebrate women:

www.eastlondonlines.co.uk/2024/03/what...

The decline of the left is not down to comms, image or marketing. It's down to the left not providing food for the hungry, evening classes, care for the vulnerable etc.

We need to show not tell.

Brilliant work here from @greenparty.org.uk London Assembly member @zoegarbett.bsky.social - pushing Labour politicians locally and nationally to take action on the cost of rent crisis through a range of short term and longer term measures 👏

🗞️ (Concise) newsletter for February 🗞️
including key campaigns and opportunities

Please send any future items for inclusion to hackney.unison@hackney.gov.uk !

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We revealed Nigel Farage’s voting record to his constituents in Clacton.

They weren’t happy.

Save the date! Our Annual General Meeting 2025 is coming up, in February 2025

Book tickets: bit.ly/AGM2025 (Wednesday 12/02/25, 12-2pm, North Atrium HTH)
Book tickets: bit.ly/OnlineAGM2025 (Thursday 13/02/25, from 3:30pm, online)

This Wednesday!

The Guardian view on class politics: it has faded as culture wars have risen | Editorial Editorial: As economic inequality deepens, political leaders continue to side-step structural issues while extremists aim to claim the votes of the left behind

This is a very good leading article about class and inequality. I would just add that we need not be bound by our backgrounds.
My parents were upper-middle class (quite posh). But I want a far more equal society, where the rich have less and the poor have more.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

London Living Room at City hall full of people watching the stage. Zoë is in a pink jacket on stage speaking into a microphone. Someone signing next to Zoë

A slide showing "the ongoing search for a wheelchair accessible home" - slide with lots of pictures and lines to show the complexity of the situation.

Stuck at home for 64 days because of a broken lift!

Relieved to be in hospital as it was accessible!

So many stories of injustice shared by disabled Londoners due to lack of accessible homes.

Mayor of London must act on @inclusionlondon.bsky.social #BarriersAtHome report

February is LGBT+ History Month 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

This year's focus is 'Claim our Past, Celebrate our Present, and Create our Future'.

Please be aware that London Capital Credit Union is separate from London Community Credit Union. It remains open and operating, and members and deposits with them are unaffected by the liquidation of London Community Credit Union.

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Savings deposits will be returned by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS). You do not need to take any action; you will receive information from the FSCS by email or post.

For any queries please email lccu@pkf-l.com or call 020 7729 9218.

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Following news that London Community Credit Union (LCCU) was placed into administration and stopped trading on 22 January 2025, we want to reassure any members with LCCU accounts that deposits of up to £85K are protected and you will get your money back.

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'London could be childless': Parents and teachers face battle to save Hackney schools With four primary schools already forced to shut their doors permanently, Hackney faces becoming a ‘ghost area’ for education. The Standard speaks to locals fighting a council they say has already mad...

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Unfortunately UNISON’s National Black Members Conference, due to take place this weekend in Llandudno, has been postponed.

A burst water main in the local vicinity has meant hotels have closed and they are unable to accept delegates.

Are you concerned that your pension is fuelling weapons manufacturers?

Come talk with the very friendly divestment group from 12:30 pm today about the council's pension survey downstairs in the HSC...

As we go through the first year of local council budget setting under a Labour Government - listen to all the locally elected Labour councillors who were calling out the awful austerity of the Tory Government and justifying cuts because of the "financial situation"

Feels the same to me.

Statement from PSC and Palestine Coalition organisations:
We strongly condemn police attempts to stop an agreed march for Palestine from protesting at the BBC on 18 January. palestinecampaign.org/statement-on...

@hackneygreenparty.bsky.social @hackneyunison.bsky.social

Local Service Champions Workers who run our vital local services are often undervalued. It's time to give our local service champions the recognition they deserve.

www.unison.org.uk/our-campaign...

We know there are more than a few champions of their communities and teams in Hackney; it would be great to see someone from the borough get some recognition!

It takes 5 minutes to nominate someone that has gone above and beyond this year...🫡 🫶🏼

Nicely said!