
Megaphone UK
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Campaigning platform for trade unions and their members ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾
United Kingdom
Joined December 2018
Greta to be on the @pcs_union picket line at My CSP this morning with our general secretary @nowak_paul 🪧 Thanks to those who supported our picket line fundraising and gave some union solidarity-tea and coffee ☕️
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This weekend, @unitetheunion members at @Village_Hotels will take historic action at their flagship in Glasgow - the first time since 1979 that hotel workers in a major chain have withdrawn their labour Join them on the picket line from 2pm, Sunday!
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🚨 | BREAKING: We're calling on the UK government to: 🔴 Recognise Palestine now 🔴 Suspend the Israel trade deal 🔴 Ban imports from illegal settlements 🔴 End all licenses for arms traded with Israel in line with International Law 🔴 Sanction individuals who promote and commit
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After years of Tory decline - factories shut, jobs offshored, communities left behind - it’s time to turn the page. The govt’s industrial strategy, investing in skills & cutting energy costs for key industries, is a historic chance to reboot our economy.
mirror.co.uk
Keir Starmer is expected to launch the government's 10-year industrial strategy plan on Monday - with help for thousands of firms struggling with electricity bills
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Our petition to support the Employment Rights Bill has hit 12,000 signatures in just 24 hours! Big business, right-wing media, and Tory peers are lining up to water down and delay the Bill - add your name now to stop that happening! https://t.co/vOU8NcR6n0
megaphone.org.uk
Demand the House of Lords passes the Bill in full – and delivers a fairer deal for working people.
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During HeartUnions week, we supported workers to run events about the importance of being in a union. Here's how it went... 🧵🫶
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Sunderland care workers seek love this Valentine's Day, as they call on Sunderland Council to end pay and pension discrimination. Please sign our petition and back the campaign: https://t.co/HeZRJfveiw
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gmbneyh.org.uk
GMB North East, Yorkshire & Humber
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Workers at Almost Famous Burgers have launched a public campaign to win justice from the business owners who left them jobless and owed over £200k in unpaid wages, tips, holidays & notice. They need your help to make this big! https://t.co/yO92YNIDQ2
megaphone.org.uk
Unite Hospitality are campaigning for these workers to receive the justice they deserve: financially, legally and politically but we need your help! We want to send a clear and collective message...
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Have you seen us out and about in Tower Hamlets? Friends of Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club & Equity have been collecting signatures to ask the council to save the club! If you’re a Tower Hamlets resident please sign the open letter… https://t.co/gfjbmclg3l
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Today we show solidarity in the workplace with the horrendous situation in Gaza. Thousands of Palestinians - mainly women and children - have been killed by Israeli military operations and many more are injured. We need an immediate and permanent ceasefire, an end to the
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In October more than 1000 @TGIFridays workers were unjustly sacked without notice or consultation. The workers are still fighting for their notice & redundancy pay, and for the compensation they deserve! Please sign this petition calling for justice
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These mass terminations at TGI Friday’s have been devastating for staff who have given years of loyal service. Restaurants were closed and workers were locked out without any notice by a company...
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On 7th October, over 1000 @TGIFridays workers were given 57 minutes notice of a call with their CEO at which they were all sacked. 35 sites across the company were padlocked and workers locked out of their workplaces with valued possessions inside. One month on and
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The TUC wants to see a £15 minimum wage as soon as possible - but this is an important step forward. When low paid workers get a pay rise, we all benefit, because that money goes straight back into local communities.
BREAKING | The minimum wage will increase by 6.7% this April. The government is delivering on its promise to make work pay.
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Every time the minimum wage goes up there are some voices who predict it will drive up unemployment. Every time they are wrong. https://t.co/mGfwtaN8Xs
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