A new BMJ Analysis finds a UK-US trade deal could cost the NHS a potential £45bn in drug spending and nearly 300 000 excess deaths in 10 years. The deal sacrifices UK health and wealth, contrary to the rhetoric of government ministers, says @kamranabbasi.bsky.social

Hong Kong’s safety net for workers left unpaid by bankrupt employers facing growing financial pressure amid a wave of business closures, while no one has been prosecuted for allegedly abusing the system despite years of investigations @hklabourrights.bsky.social hklabourrights.org/news/hong-ko...

The Fourth of July is a reminder that our country's greatest strength has always been working people. Here's to the union members who built America and keep building a better future every day.

📢 20 years since Adeneler and Others (C-212/04) The #CJEU ruled that the use of successive fixed-term employment contracts, including in the public sector, must meet certain strict conditions. In doing so, it strengthened protection against their abusive use under #EUlaw 💼

I'm old enough to remember when Brexiters claimed that leaving the EU was necessary to stop this happening under the (then under negotation, later abandoned) TTIP. news.sky.com/story/uk-us-...

Apparently there is no word for Schadenfreude in Irish. They just enjoy taking their time to describe what they feel about the British after Brexit: sult a bhaint as rud a drochraith 😏

A just transition is a right for workers, not a policy option. Yesterday at the OECD, TUAC launched its Policy Brief on Responsible Business Conduct for a Just Transition. @oecdwatch.bsky.social @cutbrasil.bsky.social @fgtb.bsky.social @hannahgreep.bsky.social

HMG trying to "defend the deal against criticism from Nigel Farage and the Eurosceptic right" as if there will ever be anything positive they can do that will not be criticised by those grifters. But if they don't believe they have a good argument, why try at all? www.ft.com/content/c5b0...

The TUC has today (Friday) launched a new skills initiative bringing together unions, employers, and education providers to tackle Britain’s deepening skills crisis. www.tuc.org.uk/news/tuc-lau...

Labour Party General Secretary Hollie Ridley to step down after Conference in October. 1/2 @dangreenjourno.bsky.social @labourlist.bsky.social has more 2/2

@tuc.org.uk gives evidence to improve the Transfer of Undertakings regulations. Those regs originate from the 1977 Acquired Rights Directive, one of the first EC social directives that unions pressed for to counter growing contracting out www.tuc.org.uk/research-ana...

Don't forget to help Living Streets to receive £5,000 to go towards our campaigns for safer and more accessible streets for walking and wheeling. The deadline for nominating us closes on Sunday evening.

Money, money, money. Who gives a fuck about which currency in this rich man's world?

Another good reason for Europeans (inc UK) not to import US-made death traps

Following the Attorney General Richard Hermer, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy now quits Musk's X. We can now expect more and it would be good if Keir Starmer joined the exodus before leaving his post. They should all join 🦋 as @andyburnham.bsky.social already has (though no a prolific poster)

What's the point of making David Miliband Foreign Secretary if his staring point is that reversing Brexit is impossible, unless he also admits that we should go further than the June 2016 status quo and work towards joining € and Schengen? www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

@andyburnham.bsky.social meets affiliated @labourunionsuk.bsky.social at @unison.org.uk HQ. Would be great if they can agree on advancing PR and refrain from falling out on over Ed Miliband (personally I would split the Exchequer from a new Economic Department for him) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

French Presidential election candidates face the Brexit test: on what side were you on? Of course no one wants to recall it now, as everyone judges the UK 'decision' a disaster. The predictions of a Frexit domino effect turned to dust

"These cuts will irreparably damage coverage," said Laura Davison, NUJ general secretary. "The corporation's leadership should reconsider this rash decision and the government should urgently intervene to maintain jobs and the BBC’s global reputation." www.nuj.org.uk/resource/cut...

The Israeli ambassador protested the publication of this clip on social media platforms and asked some companies to delete it entirely. Let's make it go viral around the world (Recorded by B’Tselem, OpsHQs)

HAITI: ILO Launches High-Level Mission to Haiti to Advance Decent Work and Labour Cooperation news.fundsforngos.org/2026/07/02/i...

The appeal brought by Google and its parent company Alphabet against the judgment of the General @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social is dismissed, confirming the penalty imposed for Google Search’s abuse of a dominant position in the context of the Android operating system curia.europa.eu/site/upload/...

So sorry to hear of the death of Michel Mortelette, friend, colleague, activist @etuc-ces.bsky.social . Michel originally from @cfdt.fr the Fédération des Travailleurs de l'Information, du Livre et de l'Action culturelle, now part of @f3ccfdt.bsky.social . Deep condolences to family and friends

@ec.europa.eu launches portal and guidelines to support implementation of Forced Labour Regulation. @ecchr.bsky.social @antislavery.org publish analysis of the Regulation, including assessment and recommendations to support implementation and enforcement www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-ne...

Great result for @gameworkers.co.uk . Employment tribunal rules against Rockstar Games, one of the most powerful and profitable tech studios in the world, by refusing to strike out a claim by IWGB for anti-union activity and blacklisting yorkshirebylines.co.uk/business/key...

Come on @belreddevils.bsky.social . And don't be sleepy in Seattle on 6 July 🇧🇪🇪🇺

US-UK drug deal could result in 229,000 excess deaths in England, analysis suggests. All these fcking post-Brexit trade 'deals' are turning out to be disasters for the UK. But 'sovereignty'. JFC www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Exclusive: How British Museum made false claims about its removal of ‘Palestine’ from displays - https://www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/exclusive-how-british-museum-made-false-claims-about-its-removal-palestine-displays

@europarl.europa.eu survey of 26,000 people across Europe shows that inflation, rising prices, and the cost of living is once again, and rising, the top priority of citizens. @etuc-ces.bsky.social calls for a Quality Jobs Act rather than deregulation www.etuc.org/en/pressrele...

EU Inc is deregulation tool in disguise. @judekd.bsky.social and Isabelle Barthès @industrialleurope.bsky.social via @socialeurope.bsky.social www.socialeurope.eu/eu-inc-is-a-...

@ombudsman.europa.eu commends EU Law Tracker. Try it👇 www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

Héro l'Hérault

Let's hope @andyburnham.bsky.social listens to @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social rather than the banks and their fellow travellers. BTW @tuc.org.uk is very supportive of Labour Government, unlike some of its affiliated unions (🤐 @unitetheunion.bsky.social ) and it would be a bad start to diss Congress House

@eurofer-eu.bsky.social welcomes the entry into force today of the EU's new steel trade measure, as "a historic shift in European industrial and trade policy and a decisive response to the destructive impact of global steel overcapacity on Europe's industry".

Tunisia: Quash unjust convictions of anti-racism activists Saadia Mosbah and Mnemty staff @amnesty.org www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Increased investment – not deregulation and wage restraint – is the real route to a more successful European economy, research by Professor @mazzucatom.bsky.social for @etuc-ces.bsky.social shows. www.etuc.org/en/pressrele...

@brittanyferries.bsky.social to cut Portsmouth - Le Havre service "following the fall in traffic volume due to Brexit and the 2026 unfavourable economic situation". Pity - that was a nice entry to go down France's West coast. Another #BrexitBenefit (in part at least)

Doesn't look like @ec.europa.eu has done the UK any favours on steel quotas, despite Ministers' claims. See @uksteel.org take in next post 1/2 policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/enforcement-...

Maybe Europe (inc UK) should restore those jobs, then

“When politicians target immigrant communities they are targeting all of us”. Same here 🇬🇧🇪🇺. Solidarity @aflcio.org

Today, the Cyprus Presidency is delivering on one of the key files of the ‘One Europe, One Market’ roadmap. EU Ambassadors endorsed the agreement facilitating the e-declaration of posted workers.

Chinese commerce minister Wang Wentao in London from June 30 to July 2 for the annual Joint Economic and Trade Commission. Chinese automakers looking at UK as a springboard to enter the EU market concerned if UK doesn't qualify for EU’s Made in Europe rules www.politico.eu/article/chin...

Delivery robots are taking over UK pavements, causing chaos for pedestrians, despite having no laws allowing their use 🤖 Our Pavement Overload campaign is in the Guardian: https://bit.ly/4pdAuYx

Dug up this from @georgedibb.bsky.social . The time is now committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...

Tomorrow, 1,000+ essential workers will rally simultaneously in Paris and Dublin to demand pro-worker procurement reform. They demand genuine collective bargaining as the EU overhauls the public procurement rules governing €2,000 billion in spending across Europe.

Brexit anniversary: unions call for “common sense” UK-EU reset amid global uncertainty bit.ly/4oYsL0j

Joint press statement by Commissioner Šefčovič and Minister Wang sets 4 workstreams: trade and investment balancing; export controls; IPR; WTO reform. Doesn't mention Šefčovič's intention "to deliver tangible results by October". We will see 🤔 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

The proper use of water cannons. But I doubt that Johnson would have thought of this

So pleased to participate in the Société en Mouvement conference on Social Dialogue in Paris. Here with Cyril Cosme @ilo.org Representative in France and an old friend from when he was the Social Attache at the French Permanent Representation to the EU #RPUE back in the days

A subcontractor creates a new company. The workers stay. The construction sites stay. Only the company name changes. A trade union investigation later uncovered more than €100,000 in unpaid wages. Labour exploitation thrives when responsibility is subcontracted away. #LimitSubcontracting