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83% of WEA London Region staff made redundant!

30/6/2015

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Four years of struggle
Over the last 4 years UNITE Clerkenwell and St Pancras branch members at the Workers' Educational Association in London have challenged every restructure, and have successfully protected jobs and grades. The on-going process of restructure of the core staff at WEA's London Region has now reached its final stage. 

Through UNITE the majority of regional organisers opposed the way the restructure was handled from the outset. WEA and London Region Senior Management have:

  • created circumstances which have resulted in a lack of agreement in the evaluation of the job descriptions for the new posts,
  • reduced regional organiser (grade D) posts to five (where currently there are nine) and implemented an arduous application process for these remaining roles
  • continued mismanagement of the region and of the restructure process
  • failed to address serious HR concerns raised in individual consultations 

Seven of the current nine organisers did not apply for the new posts and are being made compulsorily redundant, along with three further regional posts, resulting in a total of 83% of core staff identified as at risk of redundancy in London Region leaving WEA.


Support from RMT Conference  
RMT have enjoyed a long and fruitful relationship with the trade union studies unit at WEA London Region. At their recent national conference, the following emergency motion was carried:


Job Cuts at WEA London

This union notes that the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) has provided education for working-class people for over a century. It works in co-operation with trade unions and runs courses for trade union reps, which many of our representatives have attended and benefited from.

We are very disappointed by the decision of WEA London Region to cut staffing and make redundancies, including among staff who play a key role in delivering trade union education.

We instruct the General Secretary to contact Unite the Union and its Clerkenwell & St Pancras branch to offer our support in their resistance to these cuts, and to contact WEA London as a matter of urgency to express this union’s profound opposition to its decision.

We would like to thank RMT for their support.


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Your party, your voice

26/6/2015

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As you may know the Labour Party is holding a contest for its candidate for Mayor of London this year and following on from the General Election, the Labour Leadership and deputy leadership election will also take place.

For those of us living and working in London the Mayor of London, has enormous powers and influence that affect the capital and beyond. The Mayor for London has direct control over the transport system, the police, the fire brigade, housing, planning and many other areas. After 8 years of Boris Johnson breaking all his promises we cannot allow history to repeat itself.

As a Unite member you are entitled to vote but Labour recently changed its electoral system, meaning you have to register as a collective supporter for Unite to have a voice within the Labour Party, and as an affiliated supporter if you want to have a voice within the Labour Party yourself. Affiliated supporter status gives you the right to vote in Labour internal elections - to elect Labour's candidates for positions like the Mayor for London, the Chair of Transport and for Labour Party Leader and Deputy Leader. It doesn’t cost anything to sign up.

There are several ways to sign up, the easiest and quickest way is online simply by clicking on this link. It takes just 30 seconds to fill in the online form.


It is vital for both Unite and you to have a voice in London and the Labour party. To do this you need to register by the 12th August

It’s– Your Party- Your Voice - sign up now and have your say!

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Branch AGM

1/6/2015

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A reminder here that it is our Branch Annual General Meeting next Wed 10th June 6.30pm at UNITE House in Holborn. You can download the agenda for the meeting here

The speaker will be Suzanne Muna who is Branch Secretary of the Unite Housing Workers Branch www.housingworkers.org.uk and also one of our London and Eastern Regional Reps on Unite's Executive Council. Suzanne's branch has had some successful high profile campaigns in resisting employer imposed changes to terms and conditions and Suzanne will be talking about these disputes and most importantly how they have organised to achieve such great results

There will also be elections for the following positions;

  • Chair
  • Secretary
  • Treasurer
  • Membership Secretary
  • Equalities Officer
  • Branch Organiser


All positions are for 3 years as per UNITE rules and take effect from Sept 2015. Please consider standing. In particular we are looking for a Branch Chair and Branch Organiser. It would be good to have some new people to take on these roles, especially from the larger workplaces within the branch! Please contact Monica on 
0207 426 1976 if you want to know more before volunteering yourself.

See you on the 10th

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