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No more excuses
@scotgov
all of our budget tax and spending proposals can be delivered within your current powers. Scotland’s workers need radical solutions right now to tackle this
#CostOfLivingEmergency
"We need radical action from the Scottish Government if they claim to be on the people's side."
- General Secretary
@RozFoyer
on
#BBCSundayShow
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Mick Lynch and the team
@RMTunion
have been amazing. 🤩 Cutting through all the crap levelled at them by Tory Ministers and media commentators alike. Let’s keep up the support on the picket lines tomorrow. Solidarity Comrades! ✊✊
#RMTstrikes
#WeDemandBetter
@RMT_Scotland
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Deeply honoured to be taking up role of
@ScottishTUC
Gen Sec. Thanks to all my sisters and brothers who supported me to step forward. I will work tirelessly with trade unionists across Scotland to build our visibility, relevance and collective power.
The
@ScottishTUC
has announced that Rozanne Foyer
@RozFoyer
is to succeed Grahame Smith as General Secretary. Foyer will be the first woman to hold the job n representing Scotland’s 540,000 trade union members.
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Huge protest as hundreds of delegates walk out at
#cop26
holding up our red line and heading out to link up with the protesters there.
#ClimateJusticeAction
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Despite the rain good turnout here in George Square. This is just the start!
#CostOfLiving
@ScottishTUC
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I have today asked
@scotgov
to assist us in gaining clarification from
@UKGovScotland
on whether the furlough scheme can be used by employers to support working parents to stay home and provide childcare. If this is an option we need to ensure employers use it wherever required.
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Delighted that
@STVFootageSales
have uncovered this clip of me representing the STUC in my 20s arguing for LGBTQ+ rights in 1999 ✊🏳️🌈 Happy
#PrideMonth2022
folks!
🏳️🌈 We're sharing clips for
#PrideMonth2022
. Back in 1999 the age of consent was higher for homosexual couples, but many were arguing for equality 👨❤️👨👩❤️👩👩❤️👨
#STV
#ScottishTelevision
#PrideMonth
#Pride2022
#LGBTQ
@StonewallScot
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This is why we’re marching on the 8th September ✊
#CostOfLivingCrisis
#EnoughIsEnough
#ScotlandDemandsBetter
📈"The reason that inflation is so rampant is because of the boardroom excesses and the massive, absolutely obscene, profits that are being made by companies"
📺Our General Secretary,
@RozFoyer
, on
@ScotlandTonight
last night.
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Perhaps
@SusaninLangside
should be expressing her disappointment in
@scotgov
for failing to provide adequate funding for Glasgow rather than criticising trade unionists and local residents for campaigning to protect and secure the future of essential jobs and services.
Disappointing to see
@RozFoyer
repeat this total misrepresentation of the situation with
@glasgowlife
venues. There are no closures planned. Not one. And no job losses announced. There is a reopening plan & programme underway, the question is how quickly that can happen
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The whole
@ScottishTUC
movement are standing strong beside our teachers today. They deserve a credible pay offer.
@scotgov
needs to
#PayAttention
and get a real deal on the table now! ✊
#Solidarity
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Absolutely huge turnout from the amazing
@EISUnion
teachers of West Dunbartonshire for their strike rally. Solid!💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
#PayAttention
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Looking forward to joining Mick Lynch and other key Trades Unionists in Glasgow tomorrow evening to discuss the fightback for workers. ✊
#ScotlandDemandsBetter
#EnoughIsEnough
@RMT_Scotland
@RMTunion
@ScottishTUC
NEW: RMT Scotland Regional Council have organised a public meeting in Glasgow on Tuesday 16th August with guest speaker Mick Lynch.
Come down and hear about why our campaign to defend rail jobs, pay, and conditions is a fight for all of us.
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Great energy on the
@RMTunion
@RMT_Scotland
picket line in Glasgow this morning. Joined by
@GMBGarySmith
and
@UniteScotland
comrades. Solidarity! Can you feel it!! Yass ✊✊✊✊
#RMTstrikes
#WeDemandBetter
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For those who like to stay up late I’ll be on STV’s
@ScotlandTonight
making the case that it’s time for
@scotgov
to be bold in bringing in the 4 day week with no loss of pay.
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Just when you think the U.K. Gov couldn’t get any worse you find out Jacob Rees Mogg has been put in charge of Energy and workers and trade union rights.😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
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Absolute honour to be part of such a great meeting tonight. You could feel the people power rising. ✊✊✊
#ScotlandDemandsBetter
#VictoryToTheRmt
#EnoughIsEnough
@RMT_Scotland
@RMTunion
@CWUnews
@cwu_scotland
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HUGE turnout of firefighters at the Scottish Parliament turning up the heat on
@ScottishGovernment
for sustainable funding ✊✊✊
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Huge crowds at Scottish Parliament as
@unisonscot
members protest for a better pay deal in Local Government.
#PayUpForCouncilStaff
✊
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I welcome
@NicolaSturgeon
our First Minister joining me to stand by rail workers and their union
@RMTunion
@RMT_Scotland
in calling for U.K. Government to be more constructive and resolve
@networkrail
dispute.
@NicolaSturgeon
and
@RozFoyer
@ScottishTUC
call for Westminster to act to end the long-running
@networkrail
pay dispute -
@ScotGovFM
notes that
@NetworkRailSCOT
face entering the New Year still with no pay rise
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#Solidarity
to our
@CWUnews
posties; to our
@EISUnion
teachers; to our
@ucu
university workers; to our
@UniteScotland
uni workers at Glasgow School of Art. All striking tomorrow for pay justice. Look forward to joining you on the picket lines. ✊
#ScotlandDemandsBetter
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Proud to address all those fighting back today in Glasgow!💖✊
@eiecampaign
@CWUnews
@RMTunion
@ScottishTUC
Absolutely enormous
@eieglasgow
rally on Buchanan street with converging pickets from
@cwu_scotland
&
@RMTunion
&
@ASLEFunion
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Joined over 100 protesters at the
@unitetheunion
demonstration outside Scottish Power today to say No to rising bills and rising profits for the privateers. It’s time to nationalise the lot of them! ✊
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Reappointment of Braverman as Home Secretary is a chilling reminder that we’re still dealing with a government that has a hard right wing ideology.
#GeneralElectionsNow
#TimeForDemocracy
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Proud to join the picket lines in Glasgow this morning with
@unisonscot
members. These predominantly low paid workers are fighting for fair pay and fairer funding for their services. We salute them! ✊
#PayUpForCouncilStaff
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Crowds at Glasgow Central picket growing! The workers united will never be defeated! ✊
@RMTunion
@RMT_Scotland
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@ Westminster this week I’ve witnessed the Tory Government bulldozing our right to strike, threatening our EU based employment rights and undermining devolution by halting progress on trans rights in Scotland. We need this rotten, morally corrupt government out now!
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Great to see school students forming their own union and at the Edinburgh demo supporting their teachers! ✊✊✊
#Solidarity
#PayAttention
@ScottishTUC
@EISUnion
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Wishing
@ASLEFunion
a successful outcome for their pay talks with
@ScotRail
this week. All Scotland’s workers deserve a pay rise in line with the cost of living and the best way to secure that is through membership of a strong trade union.
#unionpower
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Thanks to
@NeilMackay
for enabling me to outline the economic changes workers need and why unions need to organise to combat the cost of living crisis in today’s
@heraldscotland
The Big Read
@ScottishTUC
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Congratulations to all the young Scots who took collective action and won today by forcing the Scottish Government to give them the grades they deserved. Don’t ever forget you have the power to make real change happen.
#Exams2020
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On International Workers Memorial Day we hold local events to remember all those who have died at work and to fight for the living. It’s a scandal that while the HSE’s budget has been slashed workplace fatalities in Scotland have almost doubled over past five years.
#IWMD23
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So sad to hear we’ve lost Maria Fyfe. A truly inspirational trail blazer and MP for my home area of Maryhill Glasgow who showed us that working class women could be a strong voice in Parliament at a time when too few were.
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This blows a huge hole in the Scottish Government’s supposed commitment to supporting green manufacturing jobs. Instead of hiding behind state aid rules they should be pulling out all the stops to ensure 500 high quality jobs are saved.
@GMBScotOrg
@ScottishTUC
@UniteScotland
BREAKING: The fabrication contracts for NnG, like the Seagreen project, will be manufactured by the rest of the world.
2 projects worth £5 billion, requiring 168 turbine jackets to power our future, and not one will be built in Scotland.
Joint statement:
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Was a proud train driver’s daughter this morning on the
@ASLEF_Scotland
picket line at Polmadie. Took my 91 year old dad down with me to meet some of the ‘young’ trainee drivers he used to work with back in the day.
#Solidarity
✊ 💖
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Thanks to
#bbcgms
for inviting me on to talk about why we are protesting today 1pm George Sq Glasgow and across the U.K. to demand an economy that taxes the rich, pays folk decent wages and takes our essential services back into public ownership.
#CostOfLiving
@ScottishTUC
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Thanks comrades - I’m blown away by all the amazing comments! We will have our work cut out in the years ahead to defend workers’ interests in Scotland and beyond. I look forward to joining with all of you to get our message out there. When workers collectivise we can and do win.
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Quick interview with
@BBCScotland
before getting on the bus to blockade
@POferries
in Cairnryan
#boycottP
&O
@ScottishTUC
@RMT_Scotland
Solidarity to all P&O workers ✊
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Solidarity with all rail workers taking action today to fight for decent jobs, pay and conditions. You have the full support of Scotland’s trade union movement! U.K. gov must pay up for sustainable safe railway network!✊
@RMT_Scotland
@RMTunion
@TSSAScotland
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Solidarity to all our members striking today. I’ll be speaking at noon at the Glasgow Cost of Living demo calling on
@scotgov
to support an emergency Peoples Plan for action! ✊
#EnoughIsEnough
#SolidarityWithTheStrikes
#ScotlandDemandsBetter
@ScottishTUC
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Enough is enough! It’s time for workers to stand up and fight back against the cost of living crisis. Join us at 1 pm, George Sq, Glasgow, Sat 12th February. We deserve better! ✊
We have teamed up with the Scottish
@pplsassembly
to protest the Cost of Living Crisis as part of events happening across the UK.
Come along to George Square at 1pm on Saturday, 12th February, bring your flags and banners!
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Those in the media attacking
@ASLEFunion
today already know the real economic pirates are the richest 1% who’s wealth doubled during Covid while our living standards have fallen massively. ALL workers deserve a decent pay rise!
#UnionStrong
#PayWeDemandBetter
#TaxTheRich
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To those out there who believe our
@ScottishTUC
tax proposals aren’t possible within current constitutional framework see below. Full report also attached. Fact is that £3.3 Billion extra can be raised within current powers. So why is SG not using these powers?
#ScottishBudget
As someone who helped peer-review
@ScottishTUC
's tax paper I can say that when the Scottish Government bring out the "we have limited powers" line in response, this paper was *specifically written* to work within the bounds of those powers.
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Great to see so many students joining the striking university workers
@UCUScotland
@NUSScotland
rally to defend higher education based on decent wages, job security, equality and decent pensions ✊✊✊
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Solidarity to our comrades in Palestine standing up to tyranny and oppression.
#PalestineStrike
@ScottishTUC
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Never thought I’d be saying this but so can’t wait to watch
@bbcquestiontime
tonight with the mighty Mick Lynch. 🤩Solidarity with the
@RMTunion
✊✊✊
#WeDemandBetter
#RMTstrikes
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Andy Burnham speaks for all of us as he describes the UK Gov’s deal as an utter disgrace. He’s right - this is no way to run things in the midst of a crisis. They are literally throwing working class communities on the scrapheap.
Quite a moment as Andy Burnham is shown the government’s £22 million offer on live TV.
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Delighted to be welcoming a great sister
@SharonUnite
into her new role as Unite General Secretary. This is a good day for our whole movement.
NEW: STUC Welcomes Election of Sharon Graham, Unite the Union General Secretary
Read our statement here ⤵️
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A sea of
@unisonscot
members and flags outside the Scottish Parliament to get their message across! Get it sorted!
#PayUpForCouncilStaff
✊
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Some advice for
@10DowningStreet
on changing the direction of U.K. economy if you’re serious about supporting ordinary working people. Tax the super rich. Ban the tax havens. Pay key workers more. Stop cutting benefits.
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Giving
@ScottishTUC
message of support and solidarity to the rail workers taking action! ✊
@RMT_Scotland
@RMTunion
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Get protected. Be collective. Join a union!
New trade union membership figures show a growing movement.
"There has never been a more vital time to join a union, to collectivise with your colleagues and fight for healthier, fairer and safer workplaces."
Read more here:
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Proud to support and stand with our
@UniteScotland
members on strike
@CoopFuneralcare
They deserve nothing less than decent pay, safe conditions and dignity at work.
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@ScotNational
mounting an attack on a
@unisonscot
official for carrying out the democratic decisions of its members is totally unacceptable. This dispute is about fair pay and funding of essential services. It should not be viewed through a lens of petty party politics.
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Proud to bring a message of solidarity today to firefighters who are fighting for the fire service in Scotland to receive sustainable funding.
#CutsCauseScars
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Great to see former FM
@NicolaSturgeon
MSP standing in solidarity with striking Unison workers on the picket line today. ✊✊✊
Solidarity from former First Minister
@NicolaSturgeon
to
@unisonedin
members on their day 3 picket line. But where is
@HumzaYousaf
? Wind, rain or shine, we stand together for fair pay.
#payupforcouncilstaff
#UNISONstrikes
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Proud to stand with
@EISUnion
teachers at several picket lines in Port Glasgow this morning. They are clear
@scotgov
needs to get a new offer on the table if they want to bring an end to this dispute. ✊
#Solidarity
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So tomorrow is my birthday and my wish is to wake up to good news from the US. If the American people sack Trump then my daughters can grow up in a slightly safer world. Let’s just hope he goes quietly. 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
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Solidarity to all the CWU post office members taking action today to strike for fairer pay. We support you in your action - you deserve better! ✊✊✊
@cwu_scotland
@DaveWardGS
@ScottishTUC
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Great to see my Sister
@UniteSharon
addressing her first
@UniteScotland
conf as General Secretary. Bringing a message of solidarity to over 450 active picket lines as she leads the fightback for a
#WorkersEconomy
✊✊✊
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Proud to celebrate the achievements of the organised working class today at Edinburgh’s May Day March & Rally. “Our real leaders are in our workplaces and our communities - they give their time freely and create a more equal society.” ✊
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Proud to stand on the picket line with Driving Instructors and other PCS members in Paisley. Lots of toots and strong public support.
@_Government_UK
stop playing Scrooge! 2 percent is an insult!
#Solidarity
#SupportTheStrikes
@PCS_Scotland
@pcs_union
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Join the STUC, Trades Councils from across Scotland and Trade Unionists from across the globe in celebrating May Day this Friday at noon. Workers of the world unite! We have nothing to lose but our chains. ✊✊✊
Update for May Day 2020
Friday 1st May 12 noon.
Speakers from Cataluyna, Cuba and Lombardia, as well as our own
@RozFoyer
.
Music from Calum Baird and Maeve McKinnon.
Local events from 1pm.
#keyworkerheroes
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Proud to lead off the
@ScottishTUC
annual St Andrew’s day march against racism and fascism. Today Scotland came together and sent a clear message that from Erskine to Elgin the far right isn’t welcome!
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Proud to join striking
@UCUScotland
members this morning
@UniStrathclyde
& sorry to have missed the poetry that happened later. Solidarity to all
@ucu
members taking action to defend their pay and pensions
#yourfightisourfight
✊✊✊
@ScottishTUC
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Scotland’s trade unions are demanding that
@scotgovhealth
immediately deliver on proper PPE for all essential frontline workers as well as calling for mandatory testing for all emergency, health and care sector workers. No more excuses - we need action now!
We need to see action to protect our workers’ safety and jobs before it’s too late
#SaveJobsSaveLives
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Tonight our family decided to
#TakeTheKnee
at our front doorstep because we all have a role to play in opposing racism.
#BlackLivesMatter
#ShekuBayoh
#GeorgeFloyd
@ScottishTUC
@STUC_BWC
Rozanne, Kimberley and Havana taking the knee at home to send solidarity to all opposing racism.
#TakeTheKnee
#BlackLivesMatter
#ShekuBayoh
#GeorgeFloyd
@ScottishTUC
@STUC_BWC
@RozFoyer
@SRtRCScotland
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Proud to give support and solidarity to
@RMTunion
this morning in Glasgow.
#WeDemandBetter
Huge turnout at picket lines across the country today in solidarity with
@RMT_Scotland
workers. Gordon Martin and
@RozFoyer
were at the Glasgow Central picket this morning ⤵️
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We’re all thinking of our friend, colleague and stalwart of the
@ScottishTUC
Helen Carson today as she is laid to rest. Love and condolences to her family. She will be missed by all who knew her.
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Happy New Year folks! Keep safe and let’s make 2021 the year when workers unite for a people’s recovery.
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Ken Loach does amazing speech to
#stuc17
"We have this one chance to change things - don't lose it"
@KenLoachSixteen
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CWU rise again. Can’t keep a good union down. Hope we will all get Morning Star provided “we support our postie” posters to put up in our house windows again.
@M_Star_Online
We will be serving notice on Royal Mail Group for a national ballot of all postal workers on 25th February.
Stand by your postie 👊
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Proud to march with Erskine residents, the family of Sheku, trade unionists and many other campaigners in Glasgow today to say
#ResistRacism
✊
#Solidarity
✊
#refugeesarewelcomehere
✊
But let’s never forget, that that when working-class people, unions, anti-racist campaigners get organised, and unite in our demands. We can beat racism both on our streets and in the very heart of our UK Government!
@RozFoyer
STUC General Secretary
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The fightback is growing ✊
@RMT_Scotland
@unisonscot
@UniteScotland
@CWUnews
@cwu_scotland
@GMBScotOrg
@ScottishTUC
#EnoughIsEnough
#ScotlandDemandsBetter
#SupportTheStrikes
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Brilliant to hear Andrea Bradley
@ScottishTUC
Women’s Committee making a strong case for universal
#freeschoolmeals
on
#bbcgms
this morning. 1 of 4 of Scotland’s kids are living in poverty and this could make a huge impact on levelling up educational attainment. Great interview!
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Delighted to bring a message of support and solidarity to the brilliant teachers of
@EdinburghEIS
today. Scottish Government
#PayAttention
✊
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Solidarity with all the key workers who are taking action to secure decent pay. You deserve better and we will support you.
@GMBScotOrg
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There’s never been a more crucial time to support the only daily newspaper of the left.
@M_Star_Online
Great (socially distant)
@M_Star_Online
meeting tonight with readers and supporters. Some great contributions from
@RozFoyer
,
@cwu_scotland
and others, plus chairing from
@densherryboe
. ✊🏻
Anyone else looking to get involved with your daily dose of socialism, get in touch. 🚩
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Solidarity with the McVitie’s GMB workers who’ve launched their fight back to keep their site open in Glasgow. Let’s all get behind this campaign.
“This is our factory, it’s our future, and we’re going to fight for it”. ✊🏻
Thanks to everyone who helped send a message to
@pladis_Global
this morning. This is just the start of the fight.
McVitie’s belongs to Glasgow!
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UK gov hits a new low. It’s immoral to be putting VAT back onto face masks and PPE in the midst of a second wave of virus. 20 percent rise will hit frontline workers, those on crowded public transport, in other words the poorest are paying yet again.
@ScottishTUC
#facemaskfiasco
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Proud to support the Community Campaign in support of Refugees in Erskine today. Unity is our strength and refugees are welcome here✊✊✊
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Solidarity to all the
@RMTunion
members embarking on 11 days of industrial action for pay justice on the Caledonian Sleeper.
@ScottishTUC
Scotland’s Trades Unionists stand with you in your struggle ✊✊✊
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March with us this Thursday 8th Sept to the Scottish Parliament as we demand that
@scotgov
uses its full powers and acts immediately to address the
#CostOfLivingCrisis
#ScotlandDemandsBetter
#EnoughIsEnough
#FairPayNow
@ScottishTUC
@eiecampaign
Scotland demands better. We demand better for workers. We demand better for our public services. Join our movement
📅 8 September 2022
⏰ 10.30am
📍 Johnston Terrace, Edinburgh
#ScotlandDemandsBetter
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Quick few words at the P&O Blockade. “We need to keep this going! We are not nothing and we will not rest until we get justice for the P&O 800!”
#BoycottP
&O
#Solidarity
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As I said on
@BBCRadioScot
tonight totally behind
@UsdawUnion
and
@GMBScotOrg
campaigns for shop workers to get Boxing and New Year’s Day off. Workers in our supermarkets have looked after us this year - it’s time we looked after them. So come on
@scotgov
let’s make NYD happen!
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U.K. Gov forced to do a U turn on higher rate tax cuts due to threats even their own party won’t back their immoral budget. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. We’ll keep fighting back until we kick them out of power.
#ToriesOutNow
#WorkersEconomy
#EnoughIsEnough
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Was proud to join the
@RMT_Scotland
blockade of Cairnryan Port to disrupt
@POferries
operations today Solidarity!✊
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Shocked that
@10DowningStreet
think it’s a good idea to send Boris to Scotland. Apart from the very obvious safety concerns of this non essential visit there is a huge risk of him damaging the union further with every word he speaks while here.
#owngoal
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CEO average pay up by 39 percent to £3.41M while lowest paid got only 1.3 percent. Meanwhile shameless Tories plot to destroy workers rights. I’ll be on STV
@ScotlandTonight
discussing why ordinary workers are fighting back. ✊
#ScotlandDemandsBetter
#EnoughlsEnough
@ScottishTUC
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So here’s the key part of my speech to
#SNP22
It shouldn’t need strike action all across our public sector to get decent offers on the table from
@scotgov
So let’s see proper pay offers for our members in teaching, health, rail & all other areas before we see further strikes.
Powerful address by
@RozFoyer
at
#SNP22
'Cost of Living Crisis: the Trade Union Response' fringe.
"Workers should not have to take industrial action to have their wages aligned with the cost of living, that should be an absolute political priority"
#ScotlandDemandsBetter
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