Jay McKenna

Paul Nowak and Anneliese Midgeley with todays Mirror on the picket line

Pickets reading todays Mirror

Unison members looking at todays Mirror

Unison members looking at todays Mirror

Thanks to @roswynnejones.bsky.social at The Mirror for her coverage today - members were happy to see themselves and their fight featured

Paul Nowak talking to union members on the picket line

Paul Nowak addressing the picket line

Anneliese Midgeley MP talking on the picket line

Workers on the picket line

We were back on the picket line at Livv Housing this morning with our general secretary @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social , Knowsley MP @anneliesemidgleymp.bsky.social and importantly, @knowsleyunison.bsky.social and @unitenorthwest.bsky.social members

The support is growing and will until they win✊

Reus.

The extreme hoarding of wealth is sociopathic. Example below.

It amazes me that people can argue the toss that hospital cleaners shouldn’t get sick pay from day one, and argue just as vehemently that the super rich shouldn’t be asked to pay their fair share of tax.

Why are billionaires so unhappy?

The state of Kemi Badenoch’s response to the sentencing, confirming there is no topic, however serious, that she will do the minimum of research on.

Unlikely.

Though some eyes were rolled that the BBC had Kelvin MacKenzie on radio today commenting on what it meant for The S*n. Some trolling that!

We have had so much in recent weeks about suspected cover ups and the damage to trust attributed to various key institutions in the UK. Will those folks extend that criticism to The Sun, or does that institution get a free pass?

The public enquiry should also consider the behaviour of elected politicians during the investigation and prosecution of this case, and their willingness to confect rumour and spread inflammatory misinformation in the service of their own agendas.

Representatives of 🆘, SpionKop1906, LFCWSC, cultuRED and the OLSC network have written to Liverpool FC ahead of discussions around ticket pricing.

#LFC #StopExploitingLoyalty

This is why CEOs don't like the phrase 'work-life balance'.

Millions of workers are skipping a meal at least once a week to save cash The TUC hit out at poor wage growth under the Tories as they released polling that shows working people are having to cut back on meals, heating and hot water to save money

If one in six workers are skipping meals because of a lack of cash, there is something fundamentally wrong with our economy.

And it’s why it is vital the government delivers its plans to make work pay, in full.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

‘So immoral’: gig economy workers forced to pay fee to receive their wages Retail assistants on low pay using YoungOnes platform docked cash or told to wait up to 30 days for earnings

Honestly, the lengths some companies go to avoiding directly employing staff.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I read an article the other day that was discussing the lack of middle class scousers. They were wondering who might pop up to fill the gap.

With this post…

‘Prices have risen 800% since 1992’: the Premier League fans’ unions campaigning for affordable tickets Bitter rivalries are being set aside, as supporters join forces to push back against ‘absolute disgrace’ of cost increases

"Prices have risen over 800% since 1992. That is not sustainable."

#StopExploitingLoyalty

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

I’m not saying my worry my 3 year old might be the most like me is coming true, but she’s currently leading a march around the kitchen demanding ice cream 📢

"Patriot" apparently.

Ah well, he will have more time to read Mein Kampf now. 👍

No…it wasn’t. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Important public interest journalism from @joeduggan1.bsky.social at the i

We @the-tuc.bsky.social are calling for a ban on the use of high-silica stone as young men working with it continue to die.
They are all around my age (average age 34). Preventable deaths.

Front page news. As it should be.

To celebrate joining Bluesky, here's the most joyful cricket video of 2024:

Ineos/Ratcliffe have form for this stuff. This kind of hostility towards workers and former players is damaging to a club as a whole.

Grew up in Bootle and always came as kids, and lived round here a few years now but haven’t as much - need to, always feels nice and refreshing walking along it

I think they socialise ‘differently’ (stepdaughter who is a teenager)- whether that translates into good or bad, who knows. In a way, they’re probably the guinea pigs for what technology really does.

Sunset at Crosby Beach

Sunset at Crosby Beach

Sunset at Crosby Beach

Sunset at Crosby Beach

Really do need to make the most of this being at the bottom of the road next year!

Rundown schools risk ‘irreparable’ harm to pupils, UK children’s laureate says Exclusive: Frank Cottrell-Boyce says Conservative funding freeze over 14 years has created ‘enormous’ equality gap

Excl: Crumbling state of school buildings is exposing pupils to “irreparable” harm, the UK’s children’s laureate has said, after a Guardian investigation revealed that more than 1.5 million students were being taught in dilapidated schools

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Be someone shouting ‘head height’ in 5 a side and it would be the goal that never was

All in on performance related pay at this rate

Given how he’s playing with a new contract hanging over him, even I might agree to Salah being on a zero hours contract!

About a 10th of the number of Ukrainian refugee children state schools took in without any panicked coverage.

Such nonsense.