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🚨BREAKING Deal agreed to end bins strike after 15 months!
It is an absolute abhorrence that this deal has been blocked not just once but twice by unelected unaccountable commissioners and officers at Birmingham City Council.
Congratulations to the Unite members who stood firm throughout, backed by their union.
“The move made today by the leader of the council is a vindication of the bin workers’ struggle for a decent deal” @UniteSharon
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1 in 3 UK adults are currently in debt to their energy firm or worried about falling behind when the prices leap again next month. And that shoots up to 45% of parents with a child under 18, and 35% of disabled people.
These shocking stats from @EndFuelPoverty show once again that private sector profiteers can't be trusted with our energy.
“Public, democratic control makes energy affordable while sustaining decent work. It’s time to pull the plug on the energy profiteers" @UniteSharon
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With management processes in a shambles, a two-tier workforce, and failings on basics like PPE, workers at Be Well leisure centre in Tower Hamlets are pushing back. 📣
We spoke to them as they took their protest to the town hall!
It’s time for Tower Hamlets to listen to them 📣
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🕵️♀️Bob Lambert was a senior #Spycop who deceived women into intimate relationships, infiltrated activist groups & sent cops into trade unions, resulting in the blacklisting of workers.
Today he was back at the Undercover Policing Inquiry. Unbelievably Lambert, who used the name of a dead child to deceive women, was given an MBE for services to policing. Time to take it back say @out_of_lives Unite agrees. Do you?
End of day 1 of Bob Lambert at the #spycops inquiry x.com/i/broadcasts/1NxarrdZA…
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Arora Heathrow runway scheme would "risk weakening workers' rights", @UniteSharon tells secretary of state for transport Heidi Alexander 🔽
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✊ Solidarity to our members on strike in Tower Hamlets Leisure Centres. Join their demo tomorrow if you can 🪧
#SolidaritySunday
⚠️ Tower Hamlets leisure centre staff are on strike.
📢 Show your support at their demo:
📍 Tower Hamlets Town Hall
📅 Monday 15 June, 12:00PM
Find out more about some of the issues workers are facing! ⬇️
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This follows intense pressure from Unite and will help secure the jobs thousands of auto workers
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This is a huge victory. UK car workers have been increasingly fearful for their jobs.
@GOVUK at the highest level has listened to the concerns of Unite and is now set to act decisively to protect the jobs of UK automotive workers. 1/2
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Musk just became the worlds first TRILLIONAIRE.
Meanwhile, public services are stretched to breaking point. Poverty is rising. Meanwhile, extreme wealth continues to grow.
The economy isn't working for ordinary people.
A wealth tax could raise billions to invest in our communities, strengthen public services, and build a fairer future.
Tax wealth. Fund public services. Tackle inequality.
It's time for those with the broadest shoulders to contribute their fair share.
#WealthTax #TaxTheRich #PublicServices #WealthInequality
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Elon Musk world may soon have its first trillionaire 😳
The UK is already home to over 150 billionaires - and their wealth keeps growing. Millions of people are struggling with rising living costs, stagnant wages, and economic insecurity while wealth (and power) becomes more concentrated to the hands of the few. As inequality continues to widen, is it time governments start talking about extreme wealth and creating a fairer economy?
#Inequality #WealthGap #Trillionaire #WealthInequality #SuperRich
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✊✊ There is no other tried and tested way for workers to improve their living standards and beat the #CostofLiving crisis than collective organisation. Unite members have won over £630m in improved pay, though strike action alone, since @UniteSharon was elected general secretary of Unite 5 years ago. And that figure keeps rising.
Congratulations to members at Barclays, Aberdeen Airport and Amcor for their successful pay campaigns. making a real difference for workers and their families 💥
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📰 Finnish press highlight concerns over involvement of @JonesEngHQ in data centre expansion in Scandinavia, amid allgations of union busting in Ireland ⏬
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🚨John Healey gone from the cabinet. Still no Defence Investment Plan.
"What is going on in regard to yet another delay on the DIP is fast becoming a national disgrace. Make no mistake jobs and skills are at risk" @UniteSharon
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🚗 We need action now to save car workers' jobs!
The government's ZEV sets targets for electric vehicle sales & fines manufacturers for missing them. Fines & the slow investment in charging infrastructure are hitting the auto industry & threatening jobs.
Meanwhile Chinese manufacturers & Elon Musk's Tesla are the winners.
“The current ZEV mandate is significantly contributing to the loss of automotive jobs in Britain. This is a clear fact. The targets must be radically reduced.
The automotive industry is a jewel in the crown of UK manufacturing. On which thousands of jobs depend. If the government sits on its hands it will be responsible for the decimation of the automotive industry” @UniteSharon
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A bus driver pulled from their bus. The bus set alight.
"Unite condemns the violence carried out across Northern Ireland, including the racist targeting of workers and even family homes.
All workers have a right to go to work without fear or harassment. It is only good fortune that no one was killed" @UniteSharon
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Union busters! @JonesEngHQ are partnering up with Polar Data Centers on projects across Scandinavia. Unite Organisers are there to tell @DatacenterForum @Porsgrunnsnytt @IrlEmbOslo & @DatacenterForum that workers’ rights matter. No deals with union busters
#Solidarity @Rakennusliitto & LO Norway ✊
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Like he says 👇
#Renationalise our water 🚰
90% of countries in the world can own their water but not us. People in England want their water back. But the government is protecting private water profiteers.
It’s time to give the public a say. @Feargal_Sharkey wants you stand up and be counted. Sign the petition: vist.ly/576px
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🗒️ REMINDER: As part of the Carers Week, Unite is organising a dedicated session for Unite reps, focused on improving support for workers with caring responsibilities.
THIS EVENING. Register at tinyurl.com/22k869rz
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Like @UniteSharon says! Really. Is any trade unionist falling for this?
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If I had a pound for every politician who said they are the party of workers I’d be a rich woman. Reform have shown absolutely no evidence that they are friends of workers. 1/3 theguardian.com/politics/202…
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✊Pls like and share. #Solidarity with Unite members striking for decent pay and respect at @ICR_London
They would rather be in the lab but this is important.
Unite members at @ICR_London are standing up for fair pay, respect, and investment in the workers behind cancer research. We're not backing down.
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We need a clear plan for steel and public ownership of energy to drive to new clean steel production
Jun 8
Our members are rightly concerned about the delays to Tata Steel's electric arc furnace project in Port Talbot.
They deserve transparency, certainty, and a clear plan to safeguard jobs and secure the future of steelmaking in Port Talbot.
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⚡️Renationalise energy. Starting with the grid.
Agree? Comment & share
Jun 8
The @nationalgriduk is systematically failing businesses seeking to maintain and increase employment and expansion plans. Another example of what's wrong with our privatised electricity system in Britain. It acts only in the interests of its shareholders not the wider UK economy.
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