stephenjrussell.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

A fantastic win for workers at the ILO. Huge amounts of work still to do, in the face of entrenched opposition from some employers and a few governments, but the simple fact of bringing most of the governments of the world with us gives us a massive opportunity ✊ www.ituc-csi.org/global-win-f...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Have you tanked your economy? Was your birthday parade an embarrassment? Did the richest man in the world allude to you being a nonce? Did you lose your bid to challenge a sexual abuse & defamation lawsuit? If so, you need WAR! 𝑊𝐴𝑅 - 𝐵𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟

submitted 8 days ago • 82 comments

Russia was kicked out of the G8 in March 2014 exactly BECAUSE it launched its war in Ukraine by invading and forcibly annexing Crimea.

submitted 9 days ago • 267 comments

Today marks nine years since Jo Cox was assassinated by a far-right extremist, a terrible loss to those who knew and loved her and to politics. Zero lessons were learned though and the far-right continues to be pandered to. With more political assassinations in the US it all feels too familiar.

submitted 10 days ago • 64 comments

Again this is a lie/dementia - Trudeau was not Prime Minister of Canada until the following year

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

Fantastic! And the excitement in the room was palpable (a lot of work goes into these things, and a lot of good flows from them, so that might sound geeky but it's an important thing to get excited about).

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

More broadly, I think Reform should be pressed to show their hands a bit and make clear what they actually believe on immigration - because at the moment they are carrying together groups who support (a) less than now, (b) pre-90s levels, AND (c) Powellism.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

As this year's International Labour Conference #ILC2025 comes to a close, here's my contribution the debate on the interrelatedness of "Jobs, Growth & Rights", welcoming the UK government's workers' rights agenda & how it supports the ILO mission for social justice.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

A rare article in which there's a question in the headline to which the answer is, as @davidgerard.co.uk notes, "basically, literally, yes." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

It is a lot easier to resist authoritarians when they are coming into power, than after they have consolidated it.

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

Welcoming the ILO report on Jobs, Rights and Growth at the ILC today, while sharing TUC statistics showing that workers' rights are good for growth. #ILC113

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

DiSK leader Arzu Çerkezoğlu describes how the state interferes in independent unions, including by deleting the records of members to claim the union is unrepresentative. They even deleted her! #globalrightsindex2025 “The global rights index is a statement of resistance!” she adds.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

What’s particularly alarming is: liberals in the parliamentary party won’t even rouse themselves to properly push back against this stuff when it comes from a doomed and wretched leader who has taken them to third in the polls!

submitted 17 days ago • 14 comments

A gay man, who died by suicide as a result of his sexuality, made one of the single biggest contributions to espionage and ending WW2 years earlier than would have otherwise been the case. Alan Turing is only one of hundreds of examples as to why the intelligence services should support Pride.

submitted 18 days ago • 69 comments

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

The TUC is proud to have supported this complaint at the International Labour Organisation. We have serious concerns about migrant workers in Saudi Arabia, including those involved in preparing for the 2034 World Cup.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Extrapolation works both ways, dumbass.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Breaking News: The center-left candidate Lee Jae-myung won South Korea’s presidential election. His conservative opponent conceded defeat. https://trib.al/l4oD4sI

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

Workers, Employers and exiles Government of Myanmar united in condemnation of the junta and asking for support for the “Article 33” intervention by the ILO that calls for action against the illegitimate regime for violations of fundamental rights

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Yeah, they really should stop invading Ukraine /s

submitted 23 days ago • 10 comments

The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find any angle whatsoever to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here. These are the ones published since Labour won the election. "We are happy to correct the record."

submitted 23 days ago • 30 comments

This is evil.

submitted 25 days ago • 41 comments

Abdullah, who suffered a three-year "arbitrary detention", was a 2022 World Cup media manager “I believed you were being racist... It took me so long to understand they are bad people. “During the World Cup was the worst. It felt like total defeat" www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Given how unpopular Starmer is this is quite a reflection on Farage and Badenoch.

submitted 30 days ago • 82 comments

submitted 30 days ago • 740 comments

📣 At the ETUC Executive in Belgrade, unions backed a strong resolution on Gaza: welcoming the EU review of its Israel agreement, urging firm follow-up, condemning rights violations, and calling for a permanent ceasefire and just peace. Read more 🔗 www.epsu.org/article/etuc...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

The IEA, the dark money pressure group that inspired Truss’ mini budget, is (finally) under investigation by the Charity Commission

submitted 32 days ago • 63 comments

What I find sort of funny is that he seems to assume that the whole of Europe is dying to come to the UK. In GDP per capita, the UK is just about the EU average, and much lower if you remove London. Countries that were major senders (e.g Poland) have caught up and have much higher growth than the UK

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

I'd say this is quite a courageous line for a, checks notes, Telegraph columnist to take

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

14,000 babies will die in Gaza in the next 48 hours if Israel continues to prevent baby food aid from reaching Palestinians. There is no question, no nuance, no possible justification. We must do everything we possibly can to stop Israel from committing such atrocities #r4today

submitted 37 days ago • 12 comments

Call me Andrea Dworkin, but I just think it’s corrosive that there are quite so many references to sexual acts in the British right’s response to this deal.

submitted 37 days ago • 31 comments

“Brexit means we can make our own agreements with the EU, as we pick and choose!” - UK chooses to make agreement with EU on a handful of issues. “Brexit Betrayed!”

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Too many people at the top of the BBC think that they should be competing with the private sector not providing an important thing that the market can't. Should focus on providing detailed coverage of 'what's in it?' that someone with the reading age of a seven year old can parse.

submitted 37 days ago • 10 comments

Huge endorsement for Starmer's EU trade deal as Badenoch says it's not what she'd have done. Thankfully.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

🌍 "No one should be denied their voice or rights simply because they crossed a border in search of work" Luc Triangle at the @ilo.org #FairRecruitment Initiative event The ITUC urges governments & employers to uphold equal rights for all #MigrantRights starting with fair & transparent recruitment.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Grow up Chris.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

It’s official: Moderate, pro-EU Nicușor Dan defeats far-right, pro-Putin George Simion in Romania’s presidential election, 54%-46%

submitted 38 days ago • 53 comments

Hugely important research from Fair Square showing familiar failures to prevent, investigate and verify migrant worker deaths in Saudi Arabia. With such huge projects underway, and a World Cup to prepare, serious labour reform is a matter of life and death.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Given Britain is the 9th largest island on Earth, some degree of strangeriness is a given, no? It’s not like we’re all on Canvey or Eigg, all using the same tea shop.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Indeed. I wrote about what the evidence/data actually says here. The PM is choosing to prioritise reducing migration over growth and public services. Not a sensible economic (or political) strategy. www.independent.co.uk/voices/tight...

submitted 45 days ago • 7 comments

Good to see the sinister UK Lawyers for Israel getting some of the attention it deserves. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

submitted 46 days ago • 11 comments

Ukraine: ‘Russia’s war no excuse for attacks on trade unions’ @etuc-ces.bsky.social . The fact is that ownership of trade union properties has been a problem in all former communist countries. It has usually been resolved without locking up people. www.greenleft.org.au/content/ukra...

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Bit of a triumph this.

submitted 47 days ago • 17 comments

Love the lil flex when they realise they just became the most famous bird in the world.

submitted 48 days ago • 224 comments