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BREAKING🚨| The government has announced anti-strike legislation.
When workers democratically vote to strike, they can be forced to work and sacked if they don’t. This is wrong, unworkable, and almost certainly illegal.
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NEW🚨: Google searches for 'join union' have increased by 184% in the last week.
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BREAKING 🚨🚨 | We've just launched our campaign for a £15 minimum wage.
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NEW 🚨🍫: Cadbury workers have won a 17.5% pay rise, after negotiations from their union Unite.
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BREAKING 🚨⚡️| We are now calling for public ownership of energy companies.
The energy cap is expected to increase to £3,200, up over 150% in just a year.
Public ownership would:
✅ Reduce bills
✅ Speed up energy efficiency improvements to homes
✅ Cut carbon emissions faster
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BREAKING 🚨 | A leaked Treasury document has revealed energy companies will make excess profits of up to £170 BILLION, in the next 2 years.
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BREAKING 🚨 🫘 | 700 Heinz workers have just secured a pay rise worth 11%.
They've also won an additional 3 days off at Christmas.
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BREAKING🚨 | Amazon warehouse staff in Tilbury, Essex have walked out over a 35p pay offer.
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BREAKING 🚨 | We've launched a legal challenge to protect the right to strike.
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BREAKING 🚨🚨: The House of Lords has just VOTED DOWN plans to sack nurses, teachers and firefighters who go on strike.
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@BorisJohnson
just said UK workers should be more like German workers, who don't have a "habit of going into work when not well".
Proportion of salaries covered by sick pay:
🇩🇪 100%
🇬🇧 19%
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BREAKING 🚨 | Labour will renationalise the railways - Shadow Transport Minister Louise Haigh has just announced.
Fantastic.
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Boss blaming you for their decision?
Join a union.
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A maths question for Rishi Sunak:
If you promised to hire 50,000 additional nurses but 40,000 nurses quit last year, how many nurses are you short of your target thanks to your refusal to improve pay and conditions?
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BREAKING 🚨 | Up to a dozen Grenfell firefighters have sadly been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
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The legal maximum temperature for indoor work:
🇺🇸 24°C
🇩🇪 26°C
🇪🇸 27°C
🇬🇧 (none)
At the very least, we need a 30°C maximum temperature in the UK.
Employers should also be forced to take action when indoor temperatures exceed 24°C.
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BREAKING 🚨🇫🇷 | The French government has fully nationalised the energy company EDF.
This comes after they forced shareholders to keep prices down this spring.
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Jeremy Clarkson called for striking workers to be shot in front of their families.
Continued to present Top Gear for 5 years.
Gary Lineker criticises government proposals on refugees.
Taken off air after 3 days.
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BREAKING 🚨 | The first reading of the bill to restrict the right to strike is TODAY.
If passed, this will mean health, education and other key workers will be forced to work - and SACKED if they don't comply.
MPs must reject this cynical legislation.
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BREAKING 🚨 | Tory candidate for PM Liz Truss has revealed she plans to CUT the pay of public sector workers including teachers and nurses.
During a cost of living crisis.
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GMB WIN 🚨: Chesterfield bin strike called off after workers secure 7.5% pay rise. 👏
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BREAKING 🚨🇺🇦: Kent dockers have REFUSED to unload a tanker of Russian gas, forcing it to dock elsewhere, in solidarity with Ukraine.
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Schrödinger's NHS worker:
Simultaneously too important to strike, but not important enough to be paid properly.
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BREAKING 🚨📉: UK workers will experience the WORST fall in wages out of all the G7 countries:
🇺🇸 0.6%
🇫🇷 0.5%
🇯🇵 -0.1%
🇨🇦 -2.3%
🇩🇪 -3.0%
🇮🇹 -3.8%
🇬🇧 -6.2%
Britain urgently needs a pay rise.
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BREAKING 🚨⚡️| British Gas owner Centrica has just posted £1.34 billion profit in the first six months of this year.
This is a FIVE times increase on last year.
Time for take energy companies into public ownership.
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BREAKING 🚨 | The new Conservative Minister for Work and Pensions called for women's maternity leave rights to be SLASHED.
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BREAKING 🚨🏥: Hospital cleaners and porters at Croydon hospital have won a 24% pay rise.
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NEW 🚨 | After months of organising, hospitality workers at Sheffield’s Cutlery Works have just won an incredible 44% pay rise.
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The problem: 40,000 nursing vacancies
Liz Truss' solution: Cut nurses pay.
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BREAKING 🚨 | The gender pay gap is now 14.9%.
This means women have worked from January 1st to today - 54 days - for FREE.
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🚨BREAKING: We are reporting the UK government to the United Nations watchdog on workers' rights over their anti-strikes law.
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BREAKING 🚨🚛: DHL lorry drivers have just accepted a 6.2% pay rise - after standing firm with their union and rejecting an initial 1% pay offer.
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BREAKING 🚨 | The Biden administration have condemned the UK government's anti-strike laws.
US labour secretary Marty Walsh said "I would not support anything that would take away from workers".
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BREAKING 🚨✈️ | Thousands of British Airways staff have secured a pay rise of 13%.
The pay offer arose after their union Unite backed industrial action for check-in staff.
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"My political understanding is this: if I am doing well, I want others to do well, too.
I believe in the welfare state.
I'm not privately insured.
I would never vote for a party because they promised to lower the top tax rate.
I'm on the left, of course."
Love this quote…
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BREAKING 🚨🍎 | Apple retail workers in Glasgow have voted to become the first UK store to unionise.
Historic.
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NEW 🚨: A bin strike in Windsor has ended after just 1 day - after workers accepted a pay rise of up to 17%.
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Cracks jokes about trans people in front of Brianna Ghey's mother.
Accepts a £1,000 bet with Piers Morgan on the lives of refugees.
It’s time for Rishi Sunak to go.
General Election now.
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BREAKING 🚨: Organisations/individuals who rescue people at sea will now be exempt from criminal prosecution.
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BREAKING 🚨🚨: Keir Starmer has just announced the next Labour government will BAN zero hours contracts, raise sick pay and extend it to all workers.
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2010: 60k people used food banks.
2023: 2.98 million people used food banks.
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NEW 🚨🇳🇱: P&O dockers in Rotterdam have refused to load freight onto a ferry set for Hull, in solidarity with the 800 seafarers illegally sacked by P&O.
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Why doesn't our money go to improving the railways, instead of private shareholders?
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NEW 🚨: 2,500 people have joined the union RMT since the start of the rail strike action.
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BREAKING 🚨 | The chancellor Jeremy Hunt has received a surprise £30 BILLION windfall in public finances.
This is due to higher than expected tax receipts.
No more excuses. Provide a fair pay settlement to our public sector workers.
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139 teachers sadly lost their lives during the pandemic.
Teaching unions fought to keep teachers and pupils safe.
And now we see what this government thought of those efforts.
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NEW 🚨: Marmite-maker Unilever has just released its financial reports:
▪ They've increased profits to €4.5 billion.
▪ They're raising prices by 11%.
▪ They're giving staff a real terms PAY CUT.
We need profit restraint - not wage restraint.
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NEW 🚨🚗 | Pubs and clubs in Newcastle will have to provide free taxis to staff working after 11.30pm - benefiting thousands of late-night workers.
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BREAKING 🚨 | Rishi Sunak has just written to civil servants - telling them that the target of cutting 91,000 jobs has been SCRAPPED.
Big win for civil servant trade unions.
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Barbie star Margot Robbie - proud trade unionist.
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BREAKING 🚨 | Amazon workers vote to strike at Coventry depot in UK first.
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BREAKING 🚨 | The government has published legislation to restrict the right to strike in the transport sector.
We will oppose these proposals every step of the way.
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NEW 🚨🛢️ | 73% of the public believe a freeze on energy bills should be paid for by taxing oil and gas companies.
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If you’re working for a boss who puts your name, face and personal info on social media, you need a union.
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Tax cuts for the rich – pay cuts for working people.
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BREAKING 🚨🚨 | In a MAJOR defeat for this government, the High Court has ruled that new agency worker regulations are UNLAWFUL.
We took this government to court.
And we won.
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The right to strike is the last resort for workers.
We won't let the government take it away from us.
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BREAKING 🚨 | The government is CUTTING the tax paid by those who earn more than £150,000.
That means mega earners will pay the same rate as those on £50,000.
Tax cuts for the rich. Attacks on working people.
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NEW 🚨 | Sainsbury's CEO Simon Roberts has TRIPLED his salary to £3.8 million - but is refusing to pay all Sainsbury's workers the living wage.
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NEW 🚨👩🎓 | *4,800* staff at the Open University will be brought off fixed-term contracts and onto permanent contracts.
HUGE win for the staff and their union UCU - the biggest 'decasualisation' shift in UK higher education history.
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BREAKING 🚨🚨 | Our new poll reveals:
❌ Jacob Rees-Mogg
❌ Boris Johnson
❌ Priti Patel
Are all set to get voted OUT at the next General Election.
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Drug prices, UK vs USA
💉 Insulin
🇬🇧 £16.61 🇺🇸 £215.30
🔺 1300%
🥜 Epipen 300mg
🇬🇧 £52.90 🇺🇸 £523
🔺 1000%
💓 Statin 10mg
🇬🇧 £0.46 🇺🇸 £4.50
🔺 980%
Trump and his Big Pharma cronies want to put up drug prices in our NHS.
As we head for polling day, remember what’s at stake.
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NEW 🚨🚌 | Thousands of Arriva bus drivers have suspended strike action after they received an 11.1% pay offer.
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BREAKING 🚨| The Conservative government IGNORED Covid safety warnings in schools because ministers 'didn't want to give an inch to unions'.
Released WhatsApp messages at the Covid Inquiry have revealed:
Gavin Williamson and Boris Johnson REJECTED calls for masks in schools…
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BREAKING 🚨: P&O ferry crews at Dover have been replaced by seafarers paid just £1.80 an hour.
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BREAKING 🚨 | Staff at housing charity Shelter have won a 7% pay rise, plus a one off payment of £1,250, following strike action.
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NEW 🚨👏 | Bin workers in Liverpool have won a 10% pay rise.
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NEW 🚨: Refuse workers in Harlow have called off strike action after securing a 9% pay rise.
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BREAKING 🚨 | Around 100,000 civil servants have voted to strike over pay, pensions and jobs.
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NEW 🚨🇩🇪 | The German government is introducing unlimited regional public transport for €49/month - to cut CO2 emissions and help with the cost of living.
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BREAKING 🚨: Cleaning staff at the University of Sheffield have just won their campaign for £10 an hour
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BREAKING 🚨👏 | 200 Luton Airport staff have won a pay rise of more than 28%.
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NEW 🚨 | A striking docker at Felixstowe surfs around the deserted port - flying their
@unitetheunion
flag.
Awesome.
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BREAKING 🚨 | Keir Starmer has told
#Congress22
that the next Labour government will:
End fire and rehire
Ban zero-hour contracts
Extend parental leave
Strengthen flexible working
Improve protections for pregnant women
Mandatory reporting on ethnicity pay gaps
Sick pay for all
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The government: We want a high-wage economy.
Also the government: Don't ask for a higher wage.
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Reminder: this government refuses to let union members to vote online, but allows Tory members to vote online to choose our next PM.
Hypocrisy.
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Public holidays by country
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UK workers put in the longest hours in the EU and get the fewest holidays.
You deserve a break. We need 4 new public holidays, including at least one between August and Christmas.
#BankHolidayMonday
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BREAKING 🚨 | Paris Hilton has been spotted at the BBC NUJ picket line this morning!
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Government: Don't ask for a payrise.
Also Government: We're lifting the cap on bankers' bonuses.
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BREAKING 🚨 | The House of Lords has AGAIN defeated govt plans to sack key workers for taking strike action.
Time for this government to DROP their attack on the Right to Strike.
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BREAKING 🚨💌 | Over 115,000 postal workers will strike from 26th August.
This will be the biggest strike of the summer so far.
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BREAKING 🚨 | The High Court has GRANTED permission for our legal challenge against strike-breaking agency worker regulations.
This a major blow for the government's attempts to undermine the right to strike.
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NEW 🚨 | Bin strikes in East Suffolk have been called off after staff secured a 23% pay rise for the lowest paid, better sick pay and an extra day's holiday.
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BREAKING 🚨 | The BBC's reporting that at least 13 schools with RAAC had been set to be rebuilt under a Labour plan - but their building projects were SCRAPPED by the Conservative-led government in 2010.
Former Education Secretary Michael Gove scrapped the scheme because he did…
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Worker pay in the last year: up 4.3%.
CEO pay in the last year: up 39%.
We don't need worker pay restraint: we need CEO pay restraint.
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Percentage of income parents spend on childcare:
🇩🇪 1%
🇸🇪 5%
🇪🇸 9%
🇮🇪 12%
🇫🇷 14%
🇬🇧 29%
Time for universal free childcare for pre-school children.
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'My worst day was losing eight patients in one shift. I cried for two days'
Heart-breaking testimony from NHS staff at the Covid Inquiry.
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BREAKING 🚨: Ministers were told the night before that P&O intended to fire and rehire 800 workers but did not question if lawful or act to stop it
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