Rae Montgomery-Cahill

Rae Montgomery-Cahill

@raesc.bsky.social

Trade unionist, community organiser, armchair genealogist 🌱 📍 Falkirk

158 Followers 151 Following 5 Posts Joined Nov 2024
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Pleas over Scottish Water rejected as customers face rising bills for six years Scotland's largest trade union Unison has said the government's stance on Scottish Water is "deeply concerning" amid proposals by the…

Scotland's largest trade union, UNISON, has said the government's stance on Scottish Water is "deeply concerning" amid "eye-watering" executive pay and proposals by the publicly-owned company for a major hike to customer charges for the next six years.

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3 months ago
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Sign the Petition Protect Local Residents: Exclusion Zone at Cladhan Hotel & Kemper Avenue

www.change.org/p/protect-lo...

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3 months ago

Would be great for you to start joining Falkirk For All at the counter-protests outside the Cladhan, as well as the Falkirk Unity rally on the 6th December!

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3 months ago
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Brilliant to stand shoulder to shoulder with fellow trade unionists @scottishtuc.bsky.social St Andrew’s Day anti-racism march today - as well as flyer for the Falkirk Unity March.
🗓️ 6th Dec. Meet at Callendar House at 11am ✊

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3 months ago
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Look forward to seeing you all on Saturday comrades ✊🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #solidarity #ayewelcomerefugees #falkirk #forthvalley

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3 months ago
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St Andrew’s Day Anti Racism March & Rally 2025 St Andrew's Day Anti-Racism & Anti-Fascism March and Rally 2025.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 St Andrew's Day Anti-Racism & Anti-Fascism March and Rally 2025 with STUC!

📍Barrowlands Park to Adelaide Place Sat 29 🕥 10:30am > march at 11am > rally 12pm

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4 months ago
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Public services are the foundation of a fair Scotland, yet too many workers delivering them are living in poverty. Change happens when we stand together and demand investment in people, not cuts. #ScotlandDemandsBetter

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7 months ago

A really exciting role for a talented + experienced organiser below.

I’ve had the pleasure of working in partnership with ABC for the past 4 years, + can promise you’d be joining an incredibly passionate, dedicated and skilled team that are doing exciting work across the UK!

Don’t delay ⬇️

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7 months ago
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🧵Supported by Falkirk TUC, Stand Up to Racism & coalition of local residents
We are concerned, a year on from the 2024 summer riots, by a protest organised at a hotel housing refugees in Falkirk -and by the involvement of individuals with links to dangerous far-right groups
@scottishtuc.bsky.social

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1 year ago
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Cruel cuts to disability support: the Prime Minister needs to hear from your MP Our social security system should be there for us all, especially when we need it most. But the UK government is talking about making huge cuts to disabled people’s support when they’re already three ...

📣 Almost 1 in 5 people claiming Universal Credit and disability payments have used a food bank in the last month.

Proposed cuts to disability support risk driving more people to food banks.

Please ask your MP to urge the Prime Minister to think again 👉 action.trussell.org.uk/disability-c...

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1 year ago
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Organising and Local Mobilisation Manager – Essex, Kent and South East London (12M FTC) | Trussell The Organising and Local Mobilisation (OLM) Manager is responsible for managing ongoing support to food banks as they organise and campaign for change.

🚨 Brilliant opp! 🚨

Trussell are looking for an Organising & Local Mobilisation Manager for Essex, Kent & South East London.

Are you a Changemaker who’s passionate about lived experience, community organising & campaigns that make a difference? Click below!

www.trussell.org.uk/jobs/organis...

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1 year ago

Pleased the Scottish Govt have listened to @trussellscot.bsky.social & End Child Poverty coalition campaigners and will use their powers to scrap the cruel two child cap.

Hopefully the UK child poverty review will recommend scrapping the cap across the UK!

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1 year ago

A fitting first post as Aamirah is an organiser supported by the amazing Organising & Local Mobilisation team at Trussell (and you might even spot me in the video)

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1 year ago
Chart showing numbers of food parcels provided by food banks in the Trussell community each year from 2019

Sobering new @trusselluk.bsky.social stats out today. In just 1st 6 months of this year, food banks in the Trussell community provided 1.42 million emergency food parcels. 508,000 were for children. Close to record levels of need, 69% higher than 5 years ago. 1/7🧵 www.trussell.org.uk/news-and-res...

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