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This is HUGE. Congrats to the Volkswagen workers and our @uaw.org family in Chattanooga on ratifying their first union contract.

This is an inspiring and historic milestone for working people in the South. Workers are hungry for strong union contracts and respect on the job!

SHUT IT DOWN 3-D

All sites, all day. Not a wheel turned.

Victory to the @unitetheunion.bsky.social Brum Bin workers.

Your move Prime Minister 🫵

#Megapicket #StrikeMap #Megapicket3D #Megapicket3 #Birmingham #BirminghamBinStrike #BrumBinStrike

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Take South East Water into public ownership NOW South East Water has failed households in Kent and Sussex. It is time to bring it into public ownership.

Water privatisation has failed

South East Water spent more on dividends than on pipes

Now the taps aren't working in Kent and Sussex

Emma Reynolds and Ofwat, bring South East Water into public ownership NOW

Sign the petition 👇 vist.ly/4m29f

Statement on Ford Plant Visit from VP Laura Dickerson, Ford Department Director

🧵 The autoworker at the Dearborn Truck Plant is a proud member of a strong and fighting union—the UAW. He believes in freedom of speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our membership in protecting their voice on the job.

We’ve not used #Xitter for over a year, and last week closed our accounts completely.
It’s a cess pit and anyone who is still there should be ashamed of themselves.
Get off now before your moral compass is completely rusted away.
JFDI

Only recently discovered the May Day Rooms have labelled the collection of left pamphlets I gave them 5 years ago as “ Dissenting Ephemera - Alex Bird”
Lovely description
maydayrooms.org/archive_item...

Great Britain    – The rise and sabotage of employee ownership in SMEs

Beware the Law of Unintended Consequences!
The #Labour Party has committed to doubling the size of the Co-operative Economy, and then does this........
Left hand, right hand ???????
www.efesonline.org/EFES%20NEWS/...

Working Class people have more in common with each other than with billionaires funding division.

How will you get involved this year? You can:

❤️ Help a friend join a union
🎓 Sign up for a Trade Union Rep course
✊ Join our Activist Development programmes
📮 Order your We’ll Support You campaign posters
✍️ Sign our petitions to #SaveWelshIndustry and for a #NationalCareService in Wales

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‘Why is it always workers and communities that have to pay?’ ENERGY giants will be taxed less as a New Year’s Day fuel price cap increase hits young families and disabled people the hardest during a cold snap, campaigners have warned.Average bills will rise despite falling wholesale prices, while a swathe of cold health alerts is in force across Britain.Today’s 0.2 per cent increase to Ofgem’s energy price cap will equate to a rise of about 28p a month for the average household in England, Wales and Scotland remaining on a standard variable tariff.

Heating and electricity bills will rise again this winter while energy companies continue to rake in obscene profits.

Why is it always workers and communities that have to pay? These are the wrong choices when there is an overwhelming case for owning energy ourselves.

Together we are delivering change, putting Unite back where it belongs: in the workplace. Fighting for workers, jobs, pay & conditions.

£620 million+ won for members in dispute
Millions secured through day-to-day negotiations
No more blank cheques for Labour
Resources refocused on the frontline 1/6

Join BFAWU today! Join the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU), the largest independent Trade Union in the food sector in the British Isles.

👉 A union is only as strong as its members and every new member strengthens the fight for fair pay, safety, and respect.
💥 Join the BFAWU today: your voice, your union, your power.
https://join.bfawu.org/

Year of Climate Action

Firefighters are proud of the work they do to protect our communities.

In 2026, FBU members will stand firm in the fight against cuts to the fire service.

📰 My Real Britain article in today's Mirror

💷Stealth tax OUT, Wealth tax IN

📈Investment key for UK productivity

👩‍⚕️NHS a national treasure: invest

🔋Energy profiteering - public ownership

✳️Net Zero - Workers must NOT be sacrificed

Profit has no place in social care Wales has the largest private sector delivery of care of the devolved nations. The ongoing profiteering from social care is the barrier to the improved care our nation deserves.  Billions of poun...

Will you join me in signing this TUC backed petition?

www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/pr...

Why the L20 matters - putting workers at the heart of global decision making Made up of trade unions from the G20 countries, the L20 fights to ensure workers’ voice and concerns influence governments’ decision making. It also provides a forum for unions from the Global North t...

www.tuc.org.uk/blogs/why-l2...

Britain’s biggest hunger strike in decades – and the media won’t touch it THE Palestine Action hunger strike is on track to become the largest since the 1981 Irish republican protest led by Bobby Sands, yet campaigners say it has faced a “mainstream media blackout.”So far, ...

Hunger strike in British jails and no one bats an eyelid.

Please let’s get the word out.

morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brit...

Ryanair refuses to refund train attack hero who is too injured to fly Stephen Crean, 61, bravely stepped in front of other passengers to confront a knife-wielding man during the Huntingdon train attack last week, leaving him with stab wounds

Isn’t modern #capitalism wonderful. Who needs #humanity when you can have profit maximisation?
Ryanair REFUSES to refund Huntingdon train attack hero who is too injured to fly www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

We've launched a new Research Report today about how Trade Unions and Worker Co-ops work together in the UK.
Read it here:-
www.union-coops.uk/2025/10/new-...

Could Zurich’s housing cooperatives be the solution to the rest of Europe’s housing crisis? | Peter Apps One in every five citizens in the city has bought a share in the company that built and owns their apartment block, says Inside Housing’s Peter Apps

What are we waiting for?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@neunion.bsky.social
We’d be happy to advise

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fixing-the...

Join us in Manchester on October 23rd at 5.00pm for the launch of a research report by our colleagues
Light refreshments courtesy of the SUMA Wholefoods branch of the BFAWU
Open to all but registration essential

Join us in Manchester on October 23rd at 5.00pm for the launch of a research report put together by colleagues
Light refreshments courtesy of the SUMA Wholefoods branch of the BFAWU
Open to all, but registration is essential

Economic Resilience: Studies show that cooperatives are more resilient in times of crisis — such as the 2008 financial crash and during COVID-19 — because worker-owners prioritise job security and community sustainability over short-term profit.

Protection Against Exploitation: When workers are both owners and union members, they can guarantee fair pay, safe conditions, and decent work standards — countering the race to the bottom driven by corporate profit-seeking.

www.union-coops.uk

UK Government: Keep your promise to protect workers Zero hours contracts, unfair ‘fire and rehire’, waiting months or even years to be able to access benefits – the world of work in our country is weighted against actual workers. It’s billionaire bosse...

A new law could give millions of us better rights at work, but corporate lobbyists & politicians are trying to gut it. Tell the Government: protect workers, not profits!
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/uk...

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