Unite’s acting regional director Howard Beckett has often been at loggerheads with councils in the region – in particular Birmingham City Council for its treatment of refuse collectors during last […]
Someone once wrote – the reference escapes for the moment – that Nick Cohen was so outraged and sidelined by the Corbyn phenomenon and the rise of the actual left […]
Momentum South Birmingham is on good terms with Momentum founder Jon Lansman and his NEC supporter Christine Shawcroft – last Sunday, she was speaking at an event it organised for […]
It’s been quite a year. At the beginning of 2017, the SKWAWKBOX was a relatively unknown publication that had made enough splashes since its reboot in late summer 2016 to […]
Yesterday saw the weird spectacle of the Mail Online publishing an ardent defence of Labour politicians – but only as a vehicle to attack the party and its leader, of course. […]
As the SKWAWKBOX reported on Friday, Birmingham City Council (BCC) has agreed a ‘new’ deal – in reality a version of the old one that BCC reneged on, unnecessarily prolonging […]
The SKWAWKBOX has covered the strike by Birmingham City Council (BCC) refuse workers at some length, as staff fought against an unprincipled attack on their salaries and conditions – and […]
Birmingham City Council (BCC) has been serially disgracing itself in its treatment of its refuse workers. The council tried to force its workers to accept a pay-cut of £3,500-5,000, […]
The West Midlands have long been a bastion of the least pleasant face of right-wing Labour. Birmingham’s nominally-Labour council has been at the heart of the ongoing dispute over the […]
Earlier this week, the SKWAWKBOX covered the ‘debate‘ that took place in the House of Commons on Monday, in which one MP after another – primarily Tories but with a […]