TOWER HAMLETS COUNCILLORS: what are they like? The hot topic in the Borough is the decision of Executive Mayor John Biggs to impose new contracts (“Tower Rewards”) on the Council workforce. Do Labour Councillors back him or not? Ten councillors ...
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“Grotesque chaos” of Labour Mayor handing out P45s
JOHN BIGGS is to sack the entire Council workforce on Monday, 6th July in order to impose new terms and conditions at work upon them. Biggs was elected on a Labour Party manifesto – and trade unions are now wondering ...
Read More »Labour Councillors contact details
Under the Executive Mayor system, councillors have little formal power in the Council. The Executive Mayor takes almost all the decisions. However, councillors are able to lobby the Mayor, and the Executive Mayor is more likely to listen to them ...
Read More »Tenants have extra protection while lockdown lasts
Cllr Nazir Ahmed FRSA – barrister, writer and analyst – explains the extra protection due to tenants during the Covid-19 pandemic. The long established legal requirement that landlords must give a minimum of two months’ Notice period when serving a ...
Read More »17 arrests during Tower Hamlets day of action
SEVENTEEN Tower Hamlets residents were arrested as the police held a day of action in the borough at the end of last month. The arrests were all on suspicion of various drug offences, with three men arrests on suspicion of ...
Read More »Black Lives Matter (but not so much in the Town Hall)
SUPPORTING the “Black Lives Matter” movement is not just a case of saying you support it, or going on a march to show you do, or signing a petition to say that police officers should stop killing black people in ...
Read More »Council insists resident surveys ARE anonymous
TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL has defended its practice of asking residents to sign into its website before completing online surveys – claiming the practice is more convenient and “robust”. A few days ago we reported that Tower Hamlets Council was asking ...
Read More »COVID-19 and sustainability in higher education
Afzal Sayed Munna SUSTAINABILITY is a lifestyle designed for permanence (Turner, 2010). Sustainability is a comparatively simpler idea, which can be explained in purely descriptive terms as the capacity of any given system to exist and reproduce on a long-term ...
Read More »East London actions for Palestine
Despite the lockdown, the East London branch of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) and the Jenin Friendship Association continue to work for liberation of the Palestinian people. The PSC is currently campaigning to persuade Local Government Pension Funds to take ...
Read More »Altab Ali to be remembered in new Council block
A NEW BLOCK of Council flats is being built in Wapping – and local councillor Abdal Ullah has announced that the block will be named after former Wapping resident Altab Ali. Altab Ali is a household name among the Bangladeshi ...
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