Barnet Alliance for Public Services FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE    14 July 2014   ‘No rogue landlords in Barnet Council’, ‘Immorality in the mayoralty’   On Tuesday,15 July, at 6pm Barnet Alliance for Public Services will demonstrate outside Hendon Town Hall before the full council meeting, calling for the resignation of Mayor Hugh Rayner. They will be expressing the views of the 86% of Barnet residents who responded to a survey in the

“I let out contracts myself to various customers and what I learnt in the contract is the word change or variance, because I know they are tied into me for the contract and this where I make all my profit and make up for the low price at the beginning”... (Cllr Hugh Rayner at Business Management Overview and Scrutiny Committee 24th October, 2012) Little did we know when we heard those words from the public gallery during one of the One Barnet

  As the election campaign is fully behind us and we are recovering from the 5 months of intensive leafleting and getting ready for the battles ahead (or fighting them already), we want to invite you to a party to celebrate the almost win.   TIME TO PARTY - Saturday, 19 July from 7pm: Put on your dancing shoes...   All BAPS activists and supporters, and especially the 80 who helped distribute 26,000 information leaflets across the

  Until now, there has been almost nothing about TTIP in the media, so you can't be blamed for not knowing what the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is and how it threatens to affect our lives.   What does a transatlantic treaty have to do with our local campaign?   'In addition to the prospect of handing over public services to profit-making companies, one of the most insidious effects of free trade agreements such ad

The following message has been sent to Barnet trade unions - Unison, GMB, NUT, PCS and Barnt TUC -  on strike on Thursday. Barnet Alliance for Public Services (BAPS) fully supports the strike by trade unions and public sector workers. The jobs you do are essential and it is important that they continue to be within the public sector. It is also essential that you are given a living wage, and terms and conditions that respect and protect your rights,