Labour chiefs are facing formal calls for an emergency meeting of the party’s ruling National Executive Committee following the humiliating council and European election results.
Archive for June, 2009
Activists urge early NEC post mortem on Labour poll disaster
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, June 18th, 2009Hodge accused over Barking selection battle
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, June 18th, 2009Barking MP Margaret Hodge was accused this week of involvement in alleged dirty tricks over selections to her local council. The row threatens to tear Labour apart locally and help the British National Party take over the council in next year’s elections.
Remploy rapped over gong and bonuses
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, June 18th, 2009The GMB has responded angrily after Bob Warner, former chief executive of disabled employer Remploy, was made a CBE in the Queen’s birthday honours. Mr Warner, who retired as chief executive of the state-owned company last November, presided over a programme to close 28 factories and lay off some 2,500 workers, partly in defiance of Government promises. Remploy also paid its directors and managers record bonuses of £1.77 million last year – an increase of 483 per cent since 2000, the GMB revealed this week.
Unison threatens to cut MPs’ funding
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, June 18th, 2009Labour MPs who support privatisation face losing their trade union funding, Unison general secretary Dave Prentis warned his annual conference this week.
Victory for Unite as convenor reinstated
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, June 18th, 2009Unite convenor Rob Williams, whose sacking from a car parts factory nearly unleashed a strike, has hailed the “fantastic” support he received after his employers backed down last week.
Iraq to reveal which companies have hit oil
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, June 18th, 2009At the end of this month, on June 29, Iraq’s oil minister Hussain al-Shahristani will reveal which multinationals have got their hands on his country’s black gold in the first of two televised licensing auctions (the other will be held in December). Thirty-five companies are bidding for contracts to develop oil and gas fields.
Pledge on poor students “not met”
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, June 18th, 2009The National Union of Students says universities are failing to deliver on the Labour Government’s pledge to help more students from poorer families into higher education.
Nigerian activists salute Shell settlement
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, June 18th, 2009Activists in the delta region of Ogoniland in Nigeria have welcomed a $15.5m (£10 million) out of court settlement between the families of nine executed activists and the oil giant Shell.
Keep on progressive path, says London MEP
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, June 18th, 2009Claude Moraes, Labour MEP for London and what he self-deprecatingly described as “deputy leader of a reduced group” of Labour MEPs in the European Parliament, has called for a continuation of the “progressive narrative” in Europe.
Cruddas at Compass points way to left revival
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, June 18th, 2009Jon Cruddas has put forward a raft of left-wing policies to help Labour win the general election. In a barnstorming speech to 1,000 activists at the Compass conference on Saturday, he said: “There are nine months before a general election. Let’s have an authentic battle between left and right – and let’s have an authentic Labour Party which knows what it stands for.”