The Women’s Environmental Network (WEN) has released details of its Summer Gathering. The event will be on Sunday, 24th August at Spitalfields City farm, between 12 noon and 5pm. As usual there will be workshops, stalls and a tour of ...
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Youngsters take advantage of expert advice at the MyFuture jobs fair
The Council’s Targeted Youth Support (TYS) team organised an event called “MyFuture” on 26th June at Mile End Ecology Pavilion. It was a jobs fair, designed to help young people not in education, employment or training (NEETS). Over 20 organisations ...
Read More »Fit for purpose?
If a firefighter comes to help you in an emergency, you want that firefighter to be fit enough to do the job. In Tower Hamlets especially, firefighters often have to cope with running up stairs to reach a mechanism to ...
Read More »Usdaw wins justice for former Comet workers
Just before Christmas 2012, 6,661 Comet staff were sacked when the administrator Deloitte announced the closure of the company, including all 195 stores, offices and distribution centres. Shopworkers union Usdaw took out a case at the Leeds Employment Tribunal on ...
Read More »Mayor Lutfur Rahman promotes labour rights
The elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, joined with construction workers and trade unionists to take part in International Workers Memorial Day on Monday, 28th April. The Mayor laid a wreath at the Building Worker statue in Tower Hill ...
Read More »Let’s market happen!
Next month, the council will call on new traders and budding entrepreneurs to try out a market stall for just £10 per day as part of the Love Your Local Market fortnight, which runs from 14-28th May. Led by the ...
Read More »Usdaw calls for Co-op clarity
John Gorle, Usdaw’s National Officer with responsibility for the Co-op, has explained Usdaw’s position on the unfolding events at the Co-op. Here is his statement. “The problems at the Co-operative Bank have been a real concern for some time and ...
Read More »BT Sport seeks new, young FA Cup presenter
There’s just a couple of weeks left to enter BT Sport’s competition to rustle up some new, youthful TV presenting talent. And the competition has a unique prize: the lucky winner will be part of the team presenting BT Sport’s ...
Read More »Samantha tackles her demons and gets her first paid job
Samantha Mimms didn’t get any qualifications at school. After she left education, she spent 20 years bringing up her children. But on 20th May Samantha got her first permanent job – and a plaque from Esther Vey, Minister for Disabled ...
Read More »RCN fears for services as Government axe 10,000 from NHS
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has warned the public that services are under great strain because cuts in Government funding have led to 10,000 staff being made redundant over the last three years. The figures for redundancies were released ...
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