Sam Mason

Red poster with bold text advocating for employment rights titled 'Finish The Job. Demand an Employment Rights Bill #2.' Text states 'ALL WORKERS to be entitled to ALL EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS from day one.' Logos of Strike Map and Campaign for Trade Union Freedom at the bottom.

We need ALL workers to be entitled to all employment rights from day 1.

This isn’t over.

✊Back the campaign for an #EmploymentRightsBill2 here: bit.ly/DemandERB2

#StrikeMap #EmploymentRightsBill #WorkersRights #Workers #TradeUnions #UnionPower

📣 BREAKING: One out of every 25 attendees at the #COP30 climate talks is a fossil fuel lobbyist.

The arsonists aren’t just in the building — they’re throwing fuel on the fire.

We need to #KickOutTheSuits NOW!

READ: kickbigpollutersout.org/Release-Kick...

Collage of photos: Members of Unison York City branch holding posters 'The Climate Crisis is Always a Trade Union Issue' York TUC President holding a poster Unison climate stall at York City Council offices York MP Rachael Maskell holding a poster

Today in workplaces around the country people are taking action to show global solidarity for climate justice during #COP30, part of the trade union year of climate action.
✊ #TUclimateaction 🌍
www.cacctu.org.uk/year_of_clim...

Photos from @yorkcityunison.bsky.social who did theirs a bit early!

What you need to know about recent nuclear exercises and threats

Recent weeks have seen a rise in dangerous nuclear signalling, missile tests and nuclear exercises. These weapons are not safe in anyone’s hands. From irrational leaders to accidents, the only solution is to eliminate nuclear weapons. #nuclearban

www.icanw.org/what_you_nee...

Join Nukewatch and the Nuclear Information Service for an improtant webinar on Britain's unrealistically costed nuclear jets programme.

📆 Tuesday, 11 November
⏲️ 5pm

Register: https://cnduk.org/events/smoke-and-mirrors-uk-nuclear-armed-fighter-jets-nis-and-nukewatch-webinar/

Page 1 of 3 CND statement in response to Donald Trump's announcement that the US will resume nuclear testing. Text reads: "TRUMP'S NUCLEAR TESTING WILL START NUCLEAR ARMS RACE - IT MUST BE STOPPED The announcement by Donald Trump that the US plans to restart nuclear testing is a wake up call that the threat of nuclear war is real and accelerating. If the US re-starts testing its nuclear weapons, this will accelerate a new nuclear arms race, as other nuclear weapons states do the same. With heightened tensions over Ukraine, it will further escalate this terrible conflict. It will also increase tensions with China..."

Page 2 of 3 CND statement in response to Donald Trump's announcement that the US will resume nuclear testing. Text reads: "It is not clear whether Trump is referring to nuclear-explosive testing – carried out underground or in the atmosphere - or flight testing of nuclear-capable missiles. Recommencing atmospheric or underground testing would release huge levels of radioactive fall-out into the atmosphere and land threatening us all. It would cause cancers, leukaemias and birth defects amongst inhabitants living around test sites..."

Page 3 of 3 CND statement in response to Donald Trump's announcement that the US will resume nuclear testing. Text reads: "The consequences of a nuclear war would be absolutely catastrophic, destroying huge sections of the planet, devastating the ecosystem and creating global famine for the survivors. We are already in the midst of nuclear expansion as nuclear weapons states modernise and expand their nuclear weapons. A nuclear arms race will push even more people into poverty and accelerate the climate crisis. It is absolutely critical that we rachet up the political pressure to make these world leaders – including the British government - step back from this nuclear escalation. Now more than ever, we need global nuclear disarmament."

🚨CND statement: Trump's nuclear testing will start a nuclear arms race - it must be stopped.

Trump's nuclear testing will start a nuclear arms race - it must be stopped - CND The announcement by Donald Trump that the US plans to restart nuclear testing is a wake-up call that the threat of nuclear war is real and accelerating.

"It is absolutely critical that we rachet up the political pressure to make these world leaders...step back from this nuclear escalation. Now more than ever, we need global nuclear disarmament."

Our response to Trump's #NukeTest announcement: cnduk.org/trumps-nucle...

Union defends workers’ right to strike

FIJI: Union defends workers’ right to strike www.fbcnews.com.fj/news/union-d...

Man-Made Famine & Malnutrition in Sudan, Exacerbated by U.S. Aid Cuts Starvation is now being used as a weapon of war in numerous conflicts across the globe — including Sudan, which continues to endure a yearslong famine. Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, a pediatric doctor who jus...

Sudan’s famine is the biggest and most intractable in the world.

Asad Rehman’s journey from antiracism campaigner in Burnley to head of Friends of the Earth Climate crisis is ‘interconnected crisis of inequality’, says Rehman, who began organising at his school in the 1970s

Asad Rehman’s journey from antiracism campaigner in Burnley to head of Friends of the Earth

Headline from article in The Guardian newspaper with an image of an F-35A fighter jet. text reads: "Fighter jets purchase would put UK in breach of nuclear treaty, says CND. Legal opinion for campaign group says deal amounts to reversal of UK’s commitment to nuclear disarmament"

Today is the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. Britain should be marking it with ambitious steps to further the cause of nuclear disarmament. Instead, we see yet another breach of international law by Starmer.

Read more: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Image of F-35A fighter jet with CND logo in the corner. Text reads: Starmer's breaking international law again! Stop British nuke jets!"

🚨LEGAL OPINION: UK nuke jets break international law! 🚨

A legal opinion sought by CND has found that Britain's purchase of nuclear-capable F-35A fighter jets violates its commitments under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty!

Read More: cnduk.org/legal-opinio...

Help build a trade union year of climate action In 2024, the TUC voted to back a Year of Trade Union Climate Action, engaging with community and climate justice groups - now reiterated in Motion 75 passed this year. It will kick off this autumn, wi...

It's great to have TUC recommitting to supporting a year of trade union climate action and days of action on 14/15 November during COP30.

Thanks to @bfawu.bsky.social for bringing Motion 75, seconded by @fbunational.bsky.social

Find out here how to get involved:

Trade union action – a vital part of the global climate struggle As the debate on an important climate motion at TUC Congress approaches, Sam Mason writes on why climate action is essential for the trade union movement.

From me ahead of TUC Congress debate on climate change.
#TUC25
#ClimateChange

labouroutlook.org/2025/09/10/t...

Sarah Woolley, BFAWU Gen Sec speaking, and next to her, Liz Wheatley, Unison, Tahir Latif, Greener Jobs Alliance, Miranda Irwin, Heat Strike, Sarah Kipatrick, NEU President. Banner on table: The Climate Crisis is a Working Class Issue. Trade Union Year of Climate Action 2025-2026

Really great to have an inspiring panel of speakers at our TUC fringe meeting yesterday on the year of trade union climate action: Sarah Woolley, Liz Wheatley, Miranda Irwin, Sarah Kilpatrick and our own Suzanne Jeffrey. Not forgetting Tahir Latif chairing on behalf of @gjalliance.bsky.social!

‘They used my chain to choke me’: Chris Smalls speaks out after Israeli prison assault “What I experienced is a glimpse of what Palestinians have to go through.” Prominent labour activist Chris Smalls speaks out after returning to his home in the United States following his detention in an Israeli prison. Weeks ago, Smalls decided to join the Handala flotilla, which sailed towards Gaza in an attempt to break Israel’s siege. Now, after Israeli forces intercepted the ship in international waters, Smalls says he was singled out, violently assaulted and racially abused by Israeli forces. Following his return home, Smalls joined us on Real Talk to open up about what really happened.

‘They used my chain to choke me’: Chris Smalls speaks out after Israeli prison assault - https://www.middleeasteye.net/video/they-used-my-chain-choke-me-chris-smalls-speaks-out-after-israeli-prison-assault-real-talk

Climate change could force FIFA to rethink the World Cup calendar Scientists warn extreme heat could endanger players and fans at the 2026 World Cup without major schedule changes.

www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...

Don’t let Starmer recruit our young people to fight his wars An in-depth look into Starmer's plans to recruit young people into the military - and why we must oppose them.

“Do we want the future of our young people to be defined by nukes and NATO or good jobs and education?”

SW London CND member @conorbollins.bsky.social explores Keir Starmer’s troubling military recruitment plans in this @LabourOutlook piece. #peacenotnukes

labouroutlook.org/2025/06/26/d...

DMA statement - Durham Miners Gala and Reform UK Reform UK have chosen to criticise us publicly for not inviting them to the Gala. They obviously don’t understand how this works, so we will explain...

Good statement by Durham Miners Gala on Reform UK.
Reform capitalises on disillusionment with mainstream politics, but the only solutions they offer are worse cuts and cruelty in the service of the wealthy. And their outright denial of the climate crisis endangers all our futures.

CNN finds health protections for miners eroded under Trump | CNN Politics In just 5 months, President Trump has dismantled the safety net that for years protected miners from injury and disease. CNN’s Kyung Lah traveled to coal country where miners fear the impact of the cu...

Just another day when Donald Trump plots how to accelerate climate change, increase coal and oil company profits and kill more people. #BoycottTrump #BoycottUSA edition.cnn.com/2025/06/04/p...

"In any sensible reckoning" nuclear would be consigned to history.
Not safe, not secure, not cheap, not peaceful.
The powerful nuke lobby inc trade unions have captured govt on this. Labour's previous Sustainable Devt Commission ruled nuclear out. More wasted time we don't have on energy transition

At #UCU2025 we passed a vital motion backing a year of trade union climate action, starting autumn 2025
we’re embedding climate justice into our union work.

Because climate justice is union business.

#ClimateAction #UnionPower #UCU2025

The full text of this letter can be read by clicking the link in the post: https://bit.ly/BrumBinStrikeLetter

The full text of this letter can be read by clicking the link in the post: https://bit.ly/BrumBinStrikeLetter

The full text of this letter can be read by clicking the link in the post: https://bit.ly/BrumBinStrikeLetter

BREAKING 🚨| 25 unions, representing over 1 million workers, have written to Angela Rayner MP and Cllr John Cotton to stop cuts in #Birmingham.

The movement is behind the #BirminghamBinStrikers

Read the the letter in full: bit.ly/BrumBinStrik...

#StrikeMap #BrumBinStrike

The UK is inviting Israel to buy and sell weapons for genocide.

We cannot let this happen.

Join us to demand that Israel is kicked out of DSEI, the UK's largest arms fair.

caat.org.uk/sign-the-pet...

Tuesday 1 April 12pm – Royal Courts of Justice Support campaigners challenging the government’s ‘Jet Zero’ strategy NO to unchecked airport expansion NO to greenwash and lies NO to climate breakdown Come and support GALBA, the Group for Action on Leeds Bradford Airport, on Day One of their Judicial Review - Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Next Tuesday! Come and show your support for local campaigners @galba.uk taking the government to Judicial Review over their 'Jet Zero' strategy.
Jet Zero is a smokescreen to allow aviation expansion based on false claims about future technologies.

www.galba.uk/galba-at-the...

Jury finds Greenpeace must pay more than $650M in case over Dakota Access protest activities A North Dakota jury has found Greenpeace liable for defamation and other claims in connection with protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline.

OUTRAGE: A Big Oil-stacked jury just sided with corporate power, slapping Greenpeace with millions in damages for standing with Indigenous water protectors against DAPL. This is a dangerous attack on the right to protest, but the fight is not over. apnews.com/article/gree...

Thames Water got approval for its £3 billion bailout loan, but it's still going to go bust.

16 million customers now face 59% price hikes to pay for Thames' mountain of debt. We'll put them out of business instead.

Join us 👉 takebackwater.uk

Flash News: US Air Force B-52H Bombers Conduct First-Ever Live Weapons Drop of GBU-38 Smart Bombs in Sweden Flash News: US Air Force B-52H Bombers Conduct First-Ever Live Weapons Drop of GBU-38 Smart Bombs in Sweden

While negotiations over Ukraine take place, the US is carrying out a live weapons drop exercise with Sweden using nuclear-capable US bombers. Yet another example of NATO's aggressive and provocative role in the region.
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Why have Israeli military aircraft been landing at a UK air base? Israel’s air force recently undertook three flights from the Royal Air Force’s main base in Oxfordshire. Were they carrying arms?

👉 NEW — Why have Israeli military aircraft been landing at a UK air base?

By @markcurtis30.bsky.social

Israel’s air force recently undertook three flights from the Royal Air Force’s main base in Oxfordshire. Were they carrying arms?

www.declassifieduk.org/why-have-isr...

As the world and UK backtracks on action on #climatechange