Maria, complaining that Skwawkbox takes sides is frankly a bit weak. Don’t even bother reading the internal report claiming Labour insiders threw the 2017 election. That is why it is crucial that socialists campaign for a general secretary who is not tied to this status quo. Division costs elections. The Covid-19 pandemic is a foretaste of the approaching climate catastrophe. McAnea, the former assistant general secretary, gained almost 64,000 votes, amassing 47.7% of the vote. Update your details; Get active in UNISON. Follow Paul’s campaign on Facebook and Twitter for regular updates and information, and to find out about how you can support his bid to be Unison general secretary. Voting in the ballot was as follows: Paul Holmes 45,220 (33.76%) Christina McAnea 63,900 (47.7%) Roger McKenzie 14,450 (10.79%) Hugo Pierre 10,382 (7.75%). When you say ‘lying’, you are obviously referring to the vile smears and demonisation and character assassination of Jeremy (and Jackie and Ken and Chris et al AND the demonisation of the left in general. His 20-year leadership of the union has been characterised by a partnership model that undermined resistance to the attacks of the Blair years, and by chronic inaction (despite radical rhetoric) against Tory austerity under Cameron, May and Johnson. Again the people of these districts have nothing but praise for him. When you’ve got 172 MPs working to bring you down – along with the MSM and the Establishment et al – and only forty who support you, your options are some-what limited, to put it mildly! Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Join us and get the real news in your inbox every day. Join today. Maybe if the deputy had been Chris Williamson – maybe. He has been in post for nearly 10 years, and has never publicly voiced opposition to anything Prentis has done. The joke of it is – and you’ve said as much on a number of occasions – that you said in a recent post that ONLY when the MSM are prosecuted for disseminating lies and falsehoods will there be any chance of the left attaining power, or words to that effect. News, politics, insights, inside information from the left. Left Foot Forward. However, a working-class candidate has entered the contest who threatens to upend expectations – and to shake both the union’s and the Labour Party’s political class to its foundations. qwertboi, how could an ‘alternative MSM’ compete for an audience? I wish someone had given us advice on Tom Watson.Think of what !might have been averted if we had voted in a tough no nonsense socialist deputy leader?Squawky has started the debate and that’s a good idea in any forum. Paul Holmes. The Party of good people and socialists (currently mismanaged by reprobates and scoundrels not in like the former leader of Unison himself) need you to succeed and show our enemies how strong we are when inspired by goodness and integrity. Paul Holmes, NEC member representing members in local government and Secretary of UNISON’s Kirklees Branch, is a prominent Labour left-winger in the union with a strong record of representing workers over decades. With significant grassroots suppport, the usual low turnout in union elections and his plans to shake up the union and return it to its members, it’s a certainty that Unison’s right-wing establishment will pull out all the stops to block or disable Holmes’s campaign and protect their privilege. (I quite liked “assination”) Maybe. Holmes was also nominated as the candidate for the UNISON Action Broad Left group, and as such, has a strong claim to be seen as the main candidate for left-wing rank-and-file activists in this election. Socialists in the Unison union were feeling encouraged this week after left candidate Paul Holmes delivered a strong result in the general … Voting in the ballot was as follows: Paul Holmes 45,220 (33.76%) Christina McAnea 63,900 (47.7%) Roger McKenzie 14,450 (10.79%) Hugo Pierre 10,382 (7.75%). Unison get sec election shows left can win NEC Search: Alternative search ... Paul Holmes 45,220 (33.76%) Roger McKenzie 14,450 (10.79%) Hugo Pierre 10,382 (7.75%) This version of this article was first posted on the Socialist Party website on 11 January 2021 and may vary slightly from the version subsequently printed in The Socialist. He has consistently criticised Prentis’ failure to lead a fightback, and has stood by activists who have been persecuted for doing the same. Good riddance to them I say. — Alan Gibbons (@mygibbo) January 11, 2021 UNISON is the largest public sector union, and the question of its leadership and direction is an important one for the whole labour movement. Your favourite Deep State-backed paper is getting right behind this particular sock puppet. At first he was surprised says the guy that must have repeated this falsehood at LEAST fifty or sixty times since he first started posting on skwawkbox just over a year ago! Another telling moment came when UNISON’s national executive council (NEC) voted recently, in two rounds of voting, on which general secretary candidate to support. When STV was proposed at the NEC, Holmes and his supporters were in favour. Four candidates qualified to enter the ballot (28 October to 27 November): two rank-and-file candidates, Paul Holmes and Hugo Pierre, and two assistant general secretaries, Roger McKenzie and Christina McAnea. Dave Prentis, the current general secretary, announced he was standing down on 13 July. AGM ATTENDENCE All delegates and visitors to the Regional Women’s AGM 2020 must UNISON women members from the South East region. Oh, but I was forgetting about the steamrollers and the pitchforks, wasn’t I, which about sums up how legitimate and realistic YOU are! Division costs elections. The poll closes on 27th November at 5pm. The decision was made at an online hustings and nomination meeting on 15 September. Holmes compared the newest building to the offices of a bank or building society, with few signs that it belongs to a union apart from the Unison logo on the outside and in the lobby, lacking any of the normal mementos of past struggles and working-class solidarity that would be expected in a union office. As a former Communist Party member who used to sell the Morning Star and who supports Palestine and trans rights, it would be wrong to describe her as a ‘right-wing’ candidate. As we explained throughout the campaign, Paul Holmes was the official left candidate, supported by Unison Action Broad Left. The key to that is developing powerful workplace organisation. 232 talking about this. I don’t know a thing about him other than the ‘pay cut’ so I’ve no opinion on him. He didn’t generalise either, he said “most.” Voting in the ballot was as follows (in alphabetical order): Paul Holmes 45, 220 (33.76%) Division costs elections. No wonder the right apparatchiks in the party conspired to expel people him and Chris Williams from the party. https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/unison-elects-first-woman-leader The South East regional council has nominated Paul Holmes as their chosen candidate in the forthcoming UNISON general secretary election. You could be forgiven from reading this post for thinking that there were no other left-wing candidates for the post. Mr Ruff and Ms Kinder were suspended by Unison. There are people rich enough to fund the party as a hobby until the next millennium if they wanted to and not even miss it. The SKWAWKBOX is provided free of charge but depends on the support of its readers to be viable. Lying to the electorate to win elections is something all honest voters would find abhorrent if the evidence were laid before them, and there’s plenty of it. Holmes’ candidacy is garnering enthusiasm from a broad layer of the active membership: he has over 100 nominations from UNISON branches. If elected he has pledged to stay on the same salary as he is on now as branch secretary, rather than accept the full general secretary’s salary of £138,000. Allan, look again. With the benefit on the hindsight who out of them all would have been better? Actually you’re claiming almost god-like powers of foresight, let alone perfect hindsight. This is another ham-fisted attempt to intervene in a union election. Paul Holmes. Your contention appears to be that nothing – no. Both the council and the union have remained tight-lipped about the suspensions and the … Prentis’ decision to retire, if not honourable, is at least the right thing to do. Beyond this, however, it is not clear what he would change about the way UNISON operates, or what criticisms, if any, he has of how UNISON has been organised under Prentis. And THAT’s how ruthless they ARE! The logical outcome of neoliberalism is two rich men each owning half of a dead planet at war with each other to own it all. It’s an odd choice of headline because, while a few big-money donors are apparently returning, you’d think the bigger news is the working class people leaving: Big private donations dried up almost completely under Jeremy Corbyn, although the party’s huge membership and union support put it in a strong financial position without the need for funding from wealthy backers. We have to collect and collate it obviously and that’ll take a bigger research effort than our enemies used when they trawled the internet for their antisocialist smears. 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