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Get protection at work and a range of other benefits from just £1.30 a month. It was the relentless smearing and demonisation and character assination of Jeremy (and the left membership and Momentum), along with being pressured and forced to change policy on Brexit, that led to the 2019 GE defeat. Facebook; Twitter; UNISON, UNISON … And what would that ‘firmer line’ have amounted to David? The Tories and their cronies will let working-class children starve. He wants to lead Unison and says it's "ducked out" of the … Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Join us and get the real news in your inbox every day. Good luck Paul Holmes. Don’t forget Terry Fields (God rest him) only took a fire bobby’s wage. We interviewed Janet Newsham of the Hazards Campaign, which is fighting back. For this reason, if you are a member of UNISON, you should use your vote and your voice to support Paul Holmes. Paul Holmes wants to be Unison's first general secretary elected from outside the union's employed staff, on a salary of £32,000 - and to give the remaining £100,000 or so to good causes Paul Holmes Union and Labour activists have identified the retirement of controversial right-winger Dave Prentis as general secretary of the giant Unison… The girl also faces gun and assault charges in connection with the death of Niles Holmes, who was shot repeatedly around 4:15 pm on MLK Drive near Wilkinson Avenue. Join online now The SKWAWKBOX is provided free of charge but depends on the support of its readers to be viable. If McKenzie’s backers had voted for Holmes, he would have gone into the election with NEC support to lead the union; in the event, that advantage goes to McAnea. Activist resources; Branch roles; Events; Join UNISON; Follow us. Voting began on 28th October and UNISON members should be getting their ballot papers soon. Ultimately, having a left-wing union leadership will not, in itself, lead to the victories we need to see to transform our workplaces and society. Paul Holmes. Her nearest competitor was Paul Holmes with … 2724. on Radical, popular grassroots candidate who wants GenSec job on basic wage could be Unison – and Labour – game-changer, Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window), Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), If former Labour staff think leaked report misrepresents them, simple – just publish messages in full so we can see, instead of trying to quash investigation, Guardian lauds return of large private donors to Labour under Starmer. But who cares, right? His campaign has focused on making the union more militant and less bureaucratic. Time and again, union members have been built up to expect a fight on wages and pensions, only to find the rug pulled out from underneath such action at the crucial moment. Christina McAnea has today been elected as general secretary of UNISON, the UK’s largest union. Siarhei Biareishyk speaks to rs21 about the uprising in Belarus following the falsified re-election of Aliaksandr Lukashenka on 9 August 2020. It implies that your target knows that your opinion is correct and that they’re disagreeing with you out of spite or some other scurrilous motive, rather than genuinely holding whatever opinion they express. And went to jail for non-payment of poll tax. Suarez said on December 10th. Nobody but you apparently knows FOR CERTAIN that nothing would have been different. The others are Paul Holmes, Roger McKenzie and Hugo Pierre. Without it, electoral reform and the democratic socialism which effective democracy makes inevitable cannot happen. Yes, they thought they’d done enough to finish Jeremy off in 2017, and they got a big shock when he then came so close to winning the GE, and THAT is why they then trebled down on their smears and their demonisation of Jeremy and the left membership. West Yorkshire-based Paul Holmes is a 40-year Unison and Labour Party member who has been Unison’s local government branch secretary in Kirklees for thirty years – and was elected to Unison’s NEC with the biggest vote in its last round of elections – and he is standing on a radical, working-class platform. If your focus is on doing shoddy deals from the top rather than fighting employers, who needs activists? I have stood beside him on picket lines and on anti-racist demonstrations and I am proud to stand by his side again today. ‘Incentivise’ MPs to serve the people.MPs paid by results. Paul is a long-standing member of Unison and is on its NEC. It wouldn’t have made the slightest bit of difference Joseph, and YOU know it! Southend branch has nominated Paul Holmes for General Secretary because we know he wants change. ; Unison nationally is not delivering for members.Branches currently only get 25% of our subs and no say over national and regional resources. At first he was surprised says the guy that must have repeated this falsehood at LEAST fifty or sixty times since he first started posting on skwawkbox just over a year ago! Perhaps MPs should be paid the minimum wage, so they might gain some insight, but provide them with incentive bonuses to raise the standard of living for the poorer people of Britain. McKenzie also pledges to allow UNISON’s self-organised groups (such as its women’s groups and BAME groups) play a more central role within the union. The nomination period for General Secretary of the big public services union Unison closed on 25 September. The second is that the corporate media and the semi-corporate BBC is totally behind the Blairights, and any ‘ruthlessness’ on Jeremy’s part regarding them would have been REALLY ruthlessly attacked and condemned AND designed to do as much damage as possible. Oh, right, take action against people like Ken Livingstone and Jackie Walker who were both falsely accused of anti-semitism, and whose cases were deliberately held up and prolonged for as long as possible by staff hostile to Jeremy PRECISELY so that such critiicisms of him and his team could be repeated over and over and over again, as they were. “In my opinion before we can change the world we have to enforce honesty on the MSM.”. In my opinion before we can change the world we have to enforce honesty on the MSM. I don’t have a staff of full time political researchers to help me so I’d have to sift through the MSM dross to choose – or take a wild guess. Despite hours of fighting speeches and soundbites at UNISON conferences over the years there has been no serious coordinated fight to protect services, jobs or terms and conditions. Eventbrite - Paul Holmes #Paul4NEC presents Bring the union back to its members: NEC Elections 2021 - Thursday, 28 January 2021 - Find event and ticket information. The MSM as-is have very firm and fixed political objectives. As we explained throughout the campaign, Paul Holmes was the official left candidate, supported by Unison Action Broad Left. Therefore, Reissmann was nominated with 58 votes in her favour, Paul Holmes received 30 votes, and about 30 Socialist Party members abstained. His lack of HeadOffice experience is not necessarily a disadvantage, I’d say. C hristina McAnea assumes the role as general secretary after winning 47.7% of the vote.. What your candidate is saying is that right wingers have the union stitched up, to the detriment of members and the wider Labour movement Post was not sent - check your email addresses! You have entered an incorrect email address! Paul Holmes, currently a UNISON national executive council member for local government, joined the race after receiving the endorsement of UNISON Action Broad Left, the union’s grassroots left-wing grouping, in August. I disagree with Joseph’s “could have cleared out the scum sooner / [had] the country within our hands / never realised that they had the power / [should have been] ruthless.”. He didn’t generalise either, he said “most.” The MSM takes sides though they don’t say “Vote for X” – they do it subtly and persistently. I remain proud to have his support and endorsement for UNISON general secretary. Last week (or maybe the week before, time does fly) we charted the reinvention of Sir Keir Starmer through hundreds of Guardian column inches. Mr Ruff and Ms Kinder were suspended by Unison. Every workplace is a Covid frontline, as employers try to force workers into unsafe situations. It has nothing whatsoever to do with fate and EVERYTHING to do with the enemies of Jeremy and the left having complete and total control of the narrative AND being totally ruthless and devoid of integrity. Actually you’re claiming almost god-like powers of foresight, let alone perfect hindsight. Such a threat couldn’t be ignored by the MSM, they’d have to fight it with everything they’ve got. Joseph is just dissembling a fantasy – ie a falsehood – as if to say that things could have been different ‘if only’. LFF: Tell us a bit about your background and how you got involved in Unison? 1.3 million members of the public sector union UNISON have begun voting for a new general secretary. ; Paul will take the job on his current wage of £32,000, declining the £100,000 available. If elected he has pledged to stay on the same salary as he is on now as branch secretary, rather than accept the full general secretary’s salary of £138,000. Or should I say… authentic! Activist resources. I wish someone had given us advice on Tom Watson.Think of what !might have been averted if we had voted in a tough no nonsense socialist deputy leader?Squawky has started the debate and that’s a good idea in any forum. – could possibly have caused events to turn out any differently to the way they turned out. But the hope of positive change has been tempered by the realisation that the right is well entrenched in the union’s structures – and the apparent absence of an obvious left candidate with both a realistic chance of success and the backbone to make a difference if elected. David McNiven, I have met Dave Nellist a few times and he is a staunch defender of ordinary people as most of his former constituents would testify before the promoter of Blair, Kinnock concocted some nonsense to have him expelled from the Labour party. Holmes has a good reputation in Kirklees. In the first round, McAnea and Holmes drew for first place, with 22 votes each; in the second round, between McAnea and Holmes only, McKenzie’s supporters either voted for McAnea or abstained, meaning that she won by 29 votes to 26 with 5 abstentions. All that happens – as it HAS (and I’ll see if I can find a few examples) – is that any action taken against the A/S smearers is portrayed by the smearers (and the corporate media et al) as being further proof/evidence that JC and and his colleagues are anti-semitic – ie that they are sanctioning THAT person precisely because THEY have been vocal and spoken out about the anti-semitism problem in Jeremy’s Labour Party (albeit in reality as good as non-existent). Division costs elections. Oh – and I am a bastard as it happens, so . Paul Holmes, veteran branch secretary of Kirklees Unison, branch chairman Nick Ruff and assistant branch secretary Cath Kinder were all suspended last December. The three contenders were Paul Holmes, Karen Reissmann and Hugo Pierre. He could go some way toward proving his bona fides to the masses by funding a slightly more left wing party than the Conservatives. Left Foot Forward. Socialists in the Unison union were feeling encouraged this week after left candidate Paul Holmes delivered a strong result in the general … Join today. Jeremy’s work on anti racism and internationalism is exemplary and I will always call him a friend and comrade.’. As a complete outsider looking in it’s a slam dunk, low turnout voter apathy, hasn’t JC taught us anything When it came to the crunch, both on the issue of who to nominate, and on adopting STV in the union-wide vote, McKenzie’s supporters backed the status quo. Voting in the ballot was as follows: Paul Holmes 45,220 (33.76%) Christina McAnea 63,900 (47.7%) Roger McKenzie 14,450 (10.79%) Hugo Pierre 10,382 (7.75%). He has recently criticised Keir Starmer for abstaining on the Tory Spycops Bill, saying: ‘Under my leadership UNISON will not blindly finance the Labour Party from our members’ hard-earned money, if it refuses to stand up for us and ignores the policies our members back.’. Prentis’s decision to retire has opened up the possibility of renewal for a union that is the UK’s biggest but is often criticised by its members and activists for taking too right-wing a stance and a too-soft approach on industrial disputes – and along with that renewal, to balance the Labour Party after recent right-wing manoeuvres to stack the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC). I was busy all last night into this morning and only half-listening but think it might have been on the BBC’s Dateline London last night where a foreign journalist was talking about a big increase in activism among Millennials and attributing it to them being the ‘least lucky’ generation. Paul Holmes, the suspended secretary of the Kirklees branch in West Yorkshire, has won the backing of the Unison Action Broad Left committee with the exception of its Socialist Party (SP) element. That’s it. This BASTARD has never voted Tory in his life & doesn’t know anyone of MY GENERATION who has. Follow Paul’s campaign on Facebook and Twitter for regular updates and information, and to find out about how you can support his bid to be Unison general secretary. I don’t believe in fate. We publish here a message from Paul, thanking his supporters and looking to the struggles ahead. If you can afford to, please click here to arrange a one-off or modest monthly donation via PayPal or here to set up a monthly donation via GoCardless (SKWAWKBOX will contact you to confirm the GoCardless amount). What an amazing generalisation; it’s no wonder MSM hate the ‘baby-boomers’ who “have it all & vote Tory”. A single left candidate would have won the Unison election. As a socialist and a Labour Party member, Holmes has condemned the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn and called for him to be reinstated as soon as possible. When you say ‘lying’, you are obviously referring to the vile smears and demonisation and character assassination of Jeremy (and Jackie and Ken and Chris et al AND the demonisation of the left in general. Paul has the best record of leadership and fighting for members. Though the branch office is closed due to the pandemic we are operational and available by phone and email for members in need of advice and support. I’m not insulted by Albert’s statement because most Tory supporters ARE gerrys like me – no point getting them in a twist over that. Voting in the ballot was as follows: Paul Holmes 45,220 (33.76%) Christina McAnea 63,900 (47.7%) Roger McKenzie 14,450 (10.79%) Hugo Pierre 10,382 (7.75%). Sometimes those victories will need to be won against the wishes of even the most left-wing union leaders, who at times will want to compromise with the government and employers. In accordance with national guidance, the Regional Women’s AGM will be taking place this year virtually. The poll closes on 27th November at 5pm. Jack P writes about the value and limitations of two films, First Reformed and Woman at War, from an emerging genre of environmentalist lone warrior films. Labour’s right-wingers will certainly be giving every assistance possible to their fellow ideologues in the union. They destroyed Chris’ political career as a Labour MP for calling out THEIR lies, and yet you (and Jack T and Joseph Okeefe) would have readers of skwawkbox believe that it could have been different. Ballot Papers Start Arriving Monday 17th May !http://www.unison.org.uk/elections/gselections.asp The decision was made at an online hustings and nomination meeting on 15 September. A General Secretary position is by far more complex that the one of Local Government Organiser. Paul Holmes, NEC member representing members in local government and Secretary of UNISON’s Kirklees Branch, is a prominent Labour left-winger in the union with a strong record of representing workers over decades. Of course, this possibility could have been avoided in this election by adopting a single transferable vote (STV) system, so that members get to vote for their first- and second preference- candidate. 272 talking about this. Another telling moment came when UNISON’s national executive council (NEC) voted recently, in two rounds of voting, on which general secretary candidate to support. Education workers need to go on the offensive. Angela Eagle, Carolyn Flint, Stella Creasy and Ben Bradshaw. Voting was as follows: Paul Holmes 45,220 (33.76%) Christina McAnea 63,900 (47.7%) Roger McKenzie 14,450 (10.79%) Hugo Pierre 10,382 (7.75%). The government's retreat on school closures won't last forever. 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