At last!
The news I’ve been waiting for since November!
The Obamas have finally decided which breed of dog will be White House pet to their adorable daughters Malia and Sasha!!!
According to this article, they’re going for a Portuguese water dog. Can’t say I know much about Portuguese water dogs – have always been more of a Labrador girl myself….
Anyway, now the Obamas have completed the first part of their decision, millions of canine aficionados around the world will be waiting with baited breath until April, when we’ll get to see which lucky pooch will be brought home to the White House.
I still think the girls would love little Deela but I’m sure they’ll have a lot of fun with whoever they choose… 
February 28th, 2009
Herts TUC Studies Unit
c/o Dunstable College (admin only)
Kingsway, Dunstable
Bedfordshire LU5 4HG
Tel: 01582 477776 x271
Mobile: 07759 943246
An open letter to all trade union reps and local officials
Trade Union courses in Hertfordshire starting April 2009
Dear Brother/Sister
We want get people signed up early for the April TUC courses which run at the Herts Trade Union Learning Centre in Watford. The centre is right next to Watford Junction railway station.
Please see the enclosed forms, HERE and HERE , which give you details. Union Reps Stage 1, Stepping Up (formerly Union Reps Stage2), Health and Safety Stage 1, and Next Steps for Safety Reps (formerly Health and Safety Stage 2) are available to all union representatives and last for ten days, one day a week.
LET’S KEEP TUC EDUCATION GOING IN HERTFORDSHIRE
Over the years we have trained thousands of union reps in the county. However, it is not an easy task getting enough people on these courses to make them viable. Therefore, I need your input in ensuring that our courses are advertised as widely as possible. Our remit is to build the trade union movement with well-trained representatives; something that becomes more crucial every year. Therefore, if you cannot book a course for yourself, please ensure that the enclosed form is photocopied, given to union representatives, and placed on union notice boards.
All our courses are free to union members and taught by experienced tutors. The list you will see in the attachment is not exclusive, and provided we can get a dozen people on a course that your member might want, we will run it. Just let me know your requirements. The only course we have to run at Dunstable College is the Introduction to Computing for Trade Unionists. All others are in Hertfordshire. (However, even this might be available in Watford in January. Just phone to ask).
QUALIFICATIONS AND DIPLOMAS
You will also see a grey box at the bottom of the enclosed form giving details of the TUC’s Diploma Certificate courses in Occupational Health, Employment Law, and Contemporary History. The Occupational Health Certificate course is for people who have either achieved Health and Safety Stage 2 (or Next Steps for Safety Reps), or in the case of Employment Law, are trade union activists. They are for three terms; thirty-six weeks in all. Successful ‘completers’ will obtain a level 3 Open College Network (OCN) certificate. However, whether it is the diploma course, or a straight forward Union Reps Stage 1, the OCN also certificate these as well.
Hope you can help us build these courses.
Many thanks.
Ged Peck
TUC Hertfordshire Course Coordinator
February 13th, 2009
Kreative Culture Klub, the fabulous local youth arts group, based in Leyton ward, will be hosting its 7th Young, Gifted and Black awards ceremony, next Friday 20th of February, at Walthamstow Assembly Hall. Tickets are £8 for adults and £4 for students and youth under 17.
Those of you who remember THIS POST from May 2007, will remember how these seriously talented kids managed to impress the BBC Daily Politics’ Andrew Neil and thousands of Daily Politics viewers around the country.
That was after impressing Cherie Blair in 2006!!!!!!!!!!
Tireless KCK co-ordinator Yvonne Bailey (pictured above directly to the right of Cherie) tells me the kids have also been filmed by the BBC for this year’s Comic Relief – excellent news!
If you’re not doing anything next Friday night, I thoroughly recommend you going along to support some of our borough’s most talented young artists and performers. It should be an excellent night.
To find out more about KCK’s Young, Gifted and Black awards ceremony 2009, you can download a flyer HERE.
February 13th, 2009
Harry Cohen, Leyton and Wanstead’s superb Member of Parliament, has launched a new website, to make it easier for local residents to keep in touch with him and follow his work in Parliament.
You can visit Harry’s new website by going to: www.harrycohenmp.co.uk
February 6th, 2009
