Good for France and Spain. But shame on Italy and Greece allowing the genocidal scumbag to overfly their territory

Labour rights in Europe ‘at worst state for a decade’ @etuc-ces.bsky.social euobserver.com/labour/ar6cd...

The Global Sumud Flotilla, carrying health workers, trade unionists, activists and medical supplies to Gaza, faces the threat of attack by the Israeli military. We join @ituc.bsky.social to voice our concern and will be ready to stand against any aggression. #StandWithGaza #RightToHealth

Following a meeting with the Palestinian Ambassador to the EU, @etuc-ces.bsky.social and affiliated Industry Federations call on more “decisive and principled action” by the EU over Gaza www.etuc.org/en/document/...

🚨 Buskers are campaigning for new pitches in Westminster to replace those lost in Leicester Square. It follows a court ruling that effectively banned busking there, comparing it to “psychological torture techniques.” Sign the petition: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/we...

Big Pharma ganging up vs the NHS. A case for the competition authorities? www.ft.com/content/a271...

London says NO to 🍊racist bigots

UK: we will join only if it’s value for money and in the national interest Also UK: it’s all to help Ukraine www.ft.com/content/0f2b...

Starmer letter to Abbas formally recognising the State of Palestine ✊ 🇵🇸 assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68d006...

Found in Cork city today (raining natch) @motherjones.com - in her day “the most dangerous woman in America”. “Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living”✊ #joinaunion

What's missing in the new EU-India deal trade? Workers' rights ✍️ @cmstahl.bsky.social euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

@ec.europa.eu proposes suspension of trade concessions with Israel and sanctions on extremist ministers of the Israeli government and violent settlers (updated version which unfortunately still doesn’t include Nathanyahu among that scum) ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Tesla dispute becomes longest strike in modern Swedish history as management refuses to accept the “basic elements of Swedish industrial relations” www.industriall-union.org/tesla-disput...

Great. Now for @ukparliament.parliament.uk committees?

Great. INTA (and the other @europarl.europa.eu committees) should be here 🦋too @bernd-lange.bsky.social

Writing on the EU-India negotiations: ”For trade unions and workers across Europe, TSD chapters are not a technical detail — they are a defining test of whether the EU is committed to the values it claims to uphold”. A moment of truth is upcoming! @etuc-ces.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu

A week after Google sell-out, UK security further hollowed out with Palantir deal.

Trump and Tarage for working people. Yeah 🤥 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Labour deputy leader election: Powell leads by over 15 points in exclusive member poll labourlist.org/2025/09/excl... – via LabourList

Good, but why did it take two days for No10 to condemn Musk? Now ban him from entry as a threat to UK public order www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

One for Rachel Reeves’ budget. @transportenvironment.org www.theguardian.com/money/2025/s...

Looks like the campaign to ban Musk from the UK is growing legs @theleaduk.bsky.social startafire.co/scramnews/ba...

🚨UNI Global Union joins 80+ organizations urging governments: ➡️ Ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory. ➡️ End complicity in occupation. 👉🏾Read more: oxf.am/StopSettleme... #StopSettlements #StopSettlementTrade #EndTheOccupation

Now Gibraltar has won its way back into Schengen and a customs deal with more access than before Brexit, while the rest of us are stuck with queues, red tape and decline. And where’s the UK press? Silent. Once again it’s Washington Post exposing Brexit. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

No doubt Government will consult CSEU unions @gmb.org.uk @unitetheunion.bsky.social @communityunion.bsky.social as well as @ilo.org to ensure that conditions for prisoners working in shipbuilding meet @ilo.org conventions 29 and 105 on forced labour. After all SoS Defence used to work @tuc.org.uk

I hope @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social take this up👇

Just received email from the Labour Party campaigning for Bridget Phillipson as Deputy Leader. IMO this is unethical as well as in contravention of Constitution Ch 4 (II)(c)(v) for them to use the information they have on me for this purpose while denying equal access to @lucympowell.bsky.social

About time Europe took on Musk et al

Musk Orwells Orwell. Lies are truth are lies are.....

Good to see @ec.europa.eu telling Trump to piss off.

Profile now on BBC4 about Mandelson missed the bit when he was sacked by the @tuc.org.uk GS Len Murray www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Freespeech fascists send death threats to centrist MEP @nathalieloiseau.bsky.social for opposing minute's silence by @europarl.europa.eu for Kirk

The cost of dealing with #flags and associated graffiti in the City of York Council area has been estimated at over £¼m.

Last night I saw a video of Trump Junior chaotically yelling about how the shooter was a transgender and a radical lefty… I don’t know… that’s not what this kid looks like. #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles

I expect they will all be voting for @lucympowell.bsky.social

The AFL-CIO and EKCTU are united in outrage at the militarized ICE raid at Hyundai in Georgia. The Trump admin’s actions do nothing to make working people safer, and we refuse to be pitted against each other as corporations violate workers’ rights for ever-higher profits.

So, who is this Camilla Cavendish who writes for @financialtimes.com 'Labour’s trade union backers are out of control'? Surely not Hilary Camilla Cavendish, Baroness Cavendish of Little Venice of Mells in the County of Somerset ctd... 1/3 www.ft.com/content/9915...

Two Belarusian trade union leaders imprisoned by the country’s authoritarian regime because they spoke up working people have finally been freed – now the @etuc-ces.bsky.social calls on the EU to secure the release of the 20 others still behind bars. www.etuc.org/en/pressrele...

Good news: Kanal and Centre Pompidou unite to open Brussels' first contemporary and modern art museum www.euronews.com/culture/2025...

My latest article in Social Europe: The EC argues that Europe must focus on innovation, with regulatory simplification at the centre. This reflects a profound misunderstanding of what innovation actually needs: not regulatory chaos, but a clear one www.socialeurope.eu/ctrlaltdelet...

Absurd statement given current political instability and unpredictability - just the Starmer government's timidity and chasing of Reform voters despite flatlining economy. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Annual EU report illustrates further erosion of autonomy and fundamental freedoms in Hong Kong ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

UK even more subject to US blackmail as we put give Google further access and control of our data. (And the overuse "working people" reference is becoming ridiculous. My old mate from TUC days John Healey should know better) www.gov.uk/government/n...

🗳️ Parliament pushes for Gaza aid, the hostages’ release and justice Parliament expresses grave alarm at Gaza’s “catastrophic” humanitarian crisis and calls for urgent EU action, in a resolution adopted on Thursday. Details ⤵️ www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...

Cyprus unions join together in COLA strike. Workers from #SEK, #PEO, #PASYDY and #DEOK unions will hold simultaneous rallies at government buildings in Nicosia, Limassol, Larnaca, Paralimni and Paphos at noon. www.euronews.com/2025/09/11/c...

Tunisia opens enquiry into 'premeditated aggression' on Gaza flotilla www.france24.com/fr/afrique/2...

Global Unions urge recognition of the state of Palestine www.industriall-union.org/global-union...

“Show working people whose side you are on” @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social labourlist.org/2025/09/paul... – via @labourlist.bsky.social

No aid for Russians

It seems that Lucy Powell was sacked as Leader of the House because she fell out with Morgan McSweeney. That should clinch it for her