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If you were arrested or charged in relation to the Palestine protest on 18 January 2025, please join our meeting with legal representatives from various firms. Attendance is subject to verification, so please fill out the form below. ⏰ 5 March, 6-9pm palestinecampaign.org/arrestee-sup...

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BREAKING: United Farm Workers and Bakersfield residents sue border patrol for unlawful practices. CBP’s January immigration raids terrorized communities and tore apart families. More at ufw.org/united-farm-...

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⏰ Final chance to vote in the higher education ballot. Your completed ballot paper must be received by 4 March for your vote to be counted. So get down to your local post box today and return your vote 📮 https://buff.ly/4hNu7GA

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As pension age climbs, life expectancy stagnates. It's a real danger that entire adulthoods are given to work with no opportunity to chill after a life grafting. Everyone deserves to finish work in good personal and financial health, to enjoy a decent retirement www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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A starter pack of groups directly providing & expanding access to free reading materials for incarcerated people. We're actively trying to find other Bluesky accounts in our community who migrated from Twitter, so let us know who we've missed! go.bsky.app/LW64Hb8

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Finally getting round to this by @garethdennis.bsky.social and so far, literally so good. Not just for including a Chico Mendes quote less than 4 pages in, but for doing what many still fail to do - link climate struggle to trade unionism and class struggle, and in a way that respects its reader

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

An important dimension to this, aside from fact it is blatant union victimisation loophole or otherwise - when workers inform an employer "I'm not in a union" what they actually do is paint a target on their back as someone who both splits the bargaining unit and doesn't have union protection

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Retail workers should not have to face abuse at work; consumers should not be so stretched by scarcity or precarity they've to risk arrest just to live. Maybe these major retailers could prevent this by... not consistently hiking prices, on the back of a crisis they have invented, just to fleece us

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Rest in peace Clemenza you beautiful plush, when you were adopted into our house you were so sick I thought you only had like 3 months left in you, but you rallied like a champion and spent 3 and a half years being weird and wonderful and making everyone fall in love with you 💖

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Does this sound familiar? Do you want to help fight for better? Health and Safety reps can make a real difference. Interested in becoming one? Express you interest here: rcn.org.uk/Get-Involved/rcn-reps

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🏳️‍⚧️ Paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives! Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? Trans+!? This is for you. With @transhistoryweek.bsky.social we're investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to create official content for Trans+ History Week Deadline 16th Feb 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🧵 The details 👇

submitted 39 days ago • 40 comments

Great to see @gftuwinwin.bsky.social now on Bluesky alongside @gftu.bsky.social and @gftuet.bsky.social - highly recommend trade unionists follow them, particularly for updates on trade unionist education programmes 💖

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the traitors finale is the british super bowl

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As we cross over to a new platform, I've made a starter pack of active trade unionists and worker organisers so we can link in with one another - message if you'd like to be added 💖 go.bsky.app/JTVKG6z

submitted 105 days ago • 21 comments

🚨NEW EVENT: DEFEND THE RIGHT TO PROTEST ⏰ Sat 25 Jan, 2-4PM 📍 The Atrium, London We are facing a concerted attempt to supress our right to protest. Join us at this meeting to find out how we can push back. Speakers will include Ben Jamal and Chris Nineham. Register: eventbrite.ca/e/free-pales...

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Just reminded of when my boyfriend and I saved to visit Iceland to see the northern lights, and didn't see them, while everyone back in Essex was watching them from their garden. Fair play

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Job vacancy: Bar manager at the Old Spotted Dog Ground, Clapton CFC's home www.oldspotted.dog/news/new-vac...

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In 2023, the Elizabeth line saw £7.6 million in private dividends flow out of the network - an amount equivalent to a 2.4% reduction in passenger fares. These profits are leaving the capital just to subsidise shareholders. The Elizabeth line should be under direct public control.

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An excellent start to 2025 for our history series with Marx Memorial Library and @wcmlibrary.bsky.social. Register now to join February's session - Anti-Fascism 19302/40s with Steve Silver: gftuet.org.uk/courses/trade-union-and-working-class-history #GFTU #GFTUET #TradeUnions #History #Workers

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Nothing says "work ethic" like refusing staff a real living wage so you can duck out with the profits & go travelling 💖 (UK workers do approx 2 hrs more per week than EU avg while CEOs work just 38 hrs to amass the average annual income of a full-time worker) www.independent.co.uk/business/bre...

submitted 46 days ago • 6 comments

"Go to hell," I explained thoughtfully

submitted 48 days ago • 7 comments

We should not be on the streets chanting "Stop bombing hospitals". Healthcare workers saving lives are heroes, it's horrific that they are being targeted by the Israeli military. Free Dr Hussam Abu Safiya and all health workers now in Palestine now.

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The widow of Thomas Mason, a steelworker from Stourbridge who died of asbestos-related cancer, is seeking info from former colleagues to link his illness to work history. More details here: bit.ly/3PueRlA

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Three days left to apply for the role of Foster Care Workers Branch Organiser! Support inspiring foster carers to fight and win the rights and pay they deserve. Apply now: iwgb.org.uk/en/post/fcw-...

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Unsafe and undignified treatment in corridors, cupboards and car parks is not acceptable and must end. Read our full letter to Health Secretary Wes Streeting MP and NHS England, calling for an end to treating patients in unsafe spaces ➡️ bit.ly/424Q8f7

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Either Keir Starmer is the biggest mark to ever live or he's still hoping for a few 'freebies' from his corpo mates. I cannot understate how atrocious this is.

submitted 49 days ago • 13 comments

It is a grim, shameful statistic that 1 in 10 workers in Britain skip a meal each day. This is a political choice. Successive governments and employers are to blame. Not your neighbour, your fellow worker or someone born overseas. Bosses & politicians caused this www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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This is a great statistic - I use the Elizabeth line a lot, particularly for work, and it is so useful. It does also leave a sour taste (and Londoners are not to blame for this, before anyone suggests it) that transport infrastructure elsewhere in rural and northern England remains so inadequate

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Mick Lynch - like the @rmtunion.bsky.social more broadly - engages so many workers into the movement, and galvanises trade unionists across all sectors. What a comrade and what a legacy www.rmt.org.uk/news/retirem...

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Keen to find accounts for specific workplace branches, alongside individual trade unionists - please tag them so I can add to this starter pack. The workplace, but also your branch, is where you challenge union bureaucracy - sometimes as big a fight as those taking place on the shop floor

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