Politics

TOWER HAMLETS Unison has announced three more days of strike action as they fight to convince disgraced Executive Mayor John Biggs that reducing Council workers’ terms and conditions is not the way to balance the budget. The strikes will be ...

TOWER HAMLETS Council has announced that the terms and conditions of its parking scheme are to change from 1st September. The changes were “announced” on the Council website – apparently without any consultation. The Government by Stealth approach immediately prompted ...

JOHN “NO MATES” BIGGS is becoming increasingly isolated as he tries to justify imposing new, worse terms and conditions on the Council workforce – despite trade union members voting consistently against the changes. While Councillors are not queueing up to support ...

Marks & Spencer is the latest major retailer to announce job losses in the wake of falling sales over the Coronavirus lockdown. Nearly 1,000 jobs are due to go, mostly in store management and head office. The job cuts are ...

DAVE PRENTIS, General Secretary of Unison, has made it quite clear why he believes that Executive Mayor John Biggs – and the majority of the Labour Councillors – are wrong to impose the Tower Rewards contracts on the Council workforce. ...

DAVID may well have found a way to beat Goliath, but no one is laying odds that Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor John Biggs will succeed in defeating one of the UK’s largest trade unions in the Tower Rewards saga. On ...

THE COURT OF APPEAL has today ruled that Shamima Begum should be permitted to return to the UK to contest the UK Government’s decision to revoke her British citizenship. The Government has responded to today’s Court of Appeal decision by ...

EMAIL IS A quick and efficient way of contacting people, yes? Not always: when it comes to contacting the Tower Hamlets Council Communications Team, you may be better off walking over to the Town Hall, standing outside – and hollering ...

JOHN BIGGS has displayed the consistency of Boris Johnson explaining the relaxation of lockdown rules as he presides over the first boroughwide strike of Tower Hamlets Council workers in living memory.   All we need is for Matt Lucas to ...

Cllr Nazir Ahmed FRSA – barrister, writer, analyst and public representative – calls on the Home Office to lift the “No Recourse to Public Funds” restriction. No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) is a standard condition applied to those staying in ...