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Labour in the City

The City of London Labour party is an active campaigning branch, with local campaigns ranging from local planning, the living wage. through to standing candiates for the City's Common Council.

If you are interested contact Peter Kenyon, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ;

telephone 020 7374 6941.

 

London Living Wage Campaign Latest: The City Pays Up

Thursday, 28 January 2010 00:00
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Local Labour Party  and trade union campaigners are celebrating a major campaign success following confirmation from Barbican Centre managing director, Sir Nicholas Kenyon that casual staff are now being paid a minimum of £7.45/hour – the same as the London Living Wage for 2008/09.

In an email to City of London Labour Party secretary  on 12 October, Sir Nicholas wrote: “Front of House casual workers’ pay rates were reviewed earlier this year, taking into account the rates paid in comparable venues.  Our hosts, who are not employees, make up the Barbican’s largest group of front of house casual workers, and their pay rate has increased by 8% to £7.45 (including an element to cover statutory holiday pay). ”

Securing a London Living Wage for City of London employees was a key pledge of Labour Party candidates for the City of London Common Council elections last year. Barbican Centre staff are effectively City of London employees. The main credit for securing this improvement in pay goes to the GMB union, which represents most City employees.

The local Labour Party branch is now seeking public endorsement of the London Living Wage by the Corporation to encourage all City-based businesses, as Glasgow City Council recently  did to strengthen its Living Wage policy.

The concept of a living wage is likely to feature in Labour Party election commitments in local election manifestos in 2010 as a means of accelerating Labour's progress to reduce wage and child poverty.
 

Thank you from your Labour Candidates

Friday, 01 May 2009 00:00
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We would like to thank all who voted for the Labour Candidates or simply listened to their arguments during the recent Common Council elections. We were pleased to poll 23% of vote and gratified that, though we weren’t elected, the Labour Party campaigning points set the tone for the election.

The issues of Governance, the Decent Homes Policy and the London Living Wage were well received on the doorstep and provoked defensive reactions from the current sitting Common Councilors, most of whom offered no other policies than ‘business as usual’.

Our canvassing revealed that far from the paragon of efficient government the City Of London is falling down in a number of areas and we will continue to campaign for a swifter resolution to urgent housing repairs on the Golden Lane Estate and a greater accountability in the Corporation’s governance. We will continue to monitor the performance of the council and the sitting Common Councilors and will be ready to fight another election.
Last Updated ( Monday, 29 March 2010 21:40 )
 

Inquiry into London Local Government

Friday, 01 May 2009 00:00
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Even without having Common Councillors the City Labour party will continue to campaign for improved transparency in the running of the City and so have made a submission to the current investigation on London government by the Committe on Standards in Public Life.

1. The selection processes for business voters and for candidates for the ward 'slates'.
2. The role of liveries in the annual 'election' of the Lord Mayor appears particularly opaque, and is in need of greater transparency. The Lord Mayor's roles include chairing the Common Council – one that recently resulted in a vote being lost to freeze the domestic Council Tax and an increase of 2.1% being agreed on the casting vote of the Lord Mayor. While that was in accordance with procedure, the Lord Mayor is not directly elected by Common Council or accountable to City electors.
3. The readiness of the Lord Mayor, the Aldermanic Court and Common Council to account for the City's "private" income, also know as City Cash. This has been the subject of a prolonged, but unsuccessful campaign by a former Common Councilman, the Reverend William Campbell Taylor.
4. The willingness of the Lord Mayor, the Aldermanic Court and Common Council to reform local governance arrangements by reducing the number of wards and common councillors.
 

City planners ignore residents over highwalks and bridges

Friday, 06 March 2009 23:00
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Efforts by local residents to use the democratic process to pin down the planners over the highwalks and bridges have come to nought. A motion passed by the 2008 Aldersgate Wardmote seeking a policy review, and agreed by the Planning Committee, has been shelved.

The City planning department are claiming that because there is no scheme proposed at the moment for any site affecting the highwalks (and St. Alphage in particular) and that there is a existing policy to support the highwalks that there is no urgent need for such a policy. This is disingenuous as the existence of the policy didn't keep affect the City's support for the Milton Court and St. Alphage proposals so clearly the guidance needs to be made more explicit

Another reason why you should elect Labour Party Common Councillors who know how to hold committee chairs and officers to account.

Last Updated ( Friday, 06 March 2009 23:08 )
 

City Election

Sunday, 01 March 2009 00:00
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Labour in the City

The City of London Labour party has taken the historic decision to stand Labour candidates for the Corporation of London elections on the 16th March.


Currently Common Council men and women stand as individuals, only declaring their political affiliations in the register of members' interests. At present the Labour party and its supporters are not represented on the Common Council and the full range of residents' and workers' opinion is not being represented in debate.
 
We have decided to make this break with the current practice as a result of the tremendous response from local people to our campaigning around issues such as the Living Wage.

The City Labour party also recognises the business character of the City, and the need for a business vote to represent it, but fail to see how the 21st century requirements of a major business centre are necessarily best served with medieval governance.

 We believe that every person working in the City of London deserves to earn a living wage and every person living in the City is entitled to greater transparency of the political process which governs their lives. We believe that the residents of the City are an asset not an inconvenience and that they can play a constructive part in forming the strategy of the City.

If you are interested in our vision of a "City for All" then read the manifesto below or contact Peter Kenyon, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ;
telephone 020 7374 6941.

 

 
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