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🚨28th August is the 1st day back at school, and the 1st day of indefinite strike action by school secretaries & caretakers. The Dept of Public Expenditure can avoid this by doing the right thing. Secretaries and caretakers deserve public service pensions. And everyone knows it.

So proud to march at Trans and Intersex Pride today. Trans rights are worker's rights!

Lots of employers will be feeling rightly uncomfortable right now… good.

#GAA #Hurling "If this was an underage game, Cork would be taking off players without replacing them" Brutal commentary from RTE 😂

Petrified Survivors — world's first memorial to victims of wartime sexual violence unveiled in Europe

And a charge hopefully brought against him for perjury. Solidarity to Nikita Hand, today & every day.

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Happy Pride from Fórsa! From Budapest to Ballymena, we're sending our solidarity and pride to our LGBTIA+ members and communities bravely and proudly marching. Trade unions are for everyone! 💚Bród in Oibre, Bród in Fórsa 💚 #DublinPride

If you think the chants led by Kneecap at Glastonbury about Keir Starmer are bad, just wait until tomorrow’s PLP meeting.

It's important to acknowledge when we discuss why a minority of young men are attracted to the radical right that part of the answer is "they're obnoxious". It's not all about being dispossessed and left behind it's also twats.

Raise The Roof- the labour movement must start including housing demands into our bargaining agenda or wage rises are just getting funnelled straight back into the pockets of the rich.

Listening to Elif Shafak speaking last night gave me so much hope.

Actually impressive levels of inconsideration here

This should make people stand up & take notice. Super majority ballot result on a super majority turnout. It can be done 💪🏻

⚡️98% of school secretaries & caretakers in favour of indefinite strike!⚡️ 81.7% turnout in the ballot for public service pensions. Well done to union members for an overwhelming mandate to take this fight all the way. Strong. United. Determined. There’ll be no stopping them!

In case you're wondering, authoritarians use this strategy of escalation to manufacture crisis, provoke outrage, then use the reaction to justify repression. It’s not about restoring order, it's about creating a spectacle of chaos they can claim only they can control.

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Perfect

Rock-ket man strikes

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Our colleagues in many European unions, affiliated to @epsu.bsky.social, know from bitter experience that care of the vulnerable should not be left to profiteers. The 🇮🇪 government needs to change direction now. Thanks to Aoife Hegarty and #RTEinvestigates for shining a 🔦.

“Why did burning girls matter in Vietnam but not in Gaza?” The 'Napalm Girl' photo shocked the world and helped end the Vietnam War, writes @jehadabusalim.bsky.social for Zeteo, but a child surrounded by flames and other similar images in Gaza can't even provoke a ceasefire. Read/share/subscribe:

Great event in Liberty Hall last night with @sanders.senate.gov Completely agree that the left needs to get its act together with less meetings of the converted, & instead do more organising ✊🏻

There still needs to be a clear out of those who caused this situation at the Camogie Association, they’ve humiliated the sport on an international level.

Great segment on Prime Time tonight, about the growing epidemic of misogyny. Interesting that the guy who pulled himself back from the brink referenced Jordan Peterson- the gateway drug to fascism.

Every single word of this.

We had a decade of self ID with no problem whatsoever until right wingers imported foreign bigotry.

Working from home is an election issue. But it's so more important than that. We must resist the diktats to return to the office. Instead, we should gather real evidence to inform policy. My piece in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Incredible scenes in Chesterfield 😭

“Ahead of the shareholder vote, leading proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services… told its clients the pay rise was “materially above those given to the wider workforce” and “not considered to be supported by cogent rationale” Good. This man fired 500 key workers in 1 day during Covid.

I agree with the Pope…

All power to them. The fact they’ve had to do this due to the Camogie Association misogynisticly refusing to listen to the players to begin with is a national embarrassment.

Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter. They graded it. Bwahahaha.

Mike Waltz has left the chat.

This is a stunning victory for Mark Carney. Shows how polarising Trump is that not only did the Liberals eat up votes from the more left wing NDP, & Greens- they took them every other part too, including the Tories.

Not all workers who die due to their work die at/in work. We need to broaden our understanding of what counts as work related injury. Some workplaces are so toxic that they drive people to lose their lives through the effects of acute stress& depression. Workplace deaths &injury must include them.

America has become the Karen of the world.

“where LGBTQ+ rights are strengthened so too are women’s rights, and where they collapse, so too does authentic feminism” Women are not a minority, but we are oppressed. I would trust our rights more with communities who are also oppressed, over those who suppress us, every day of the week.

This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.

Mary McAleese has managed to become more impressive post-Presidency

Kind, decent, and compassionate, Pope Francis was badly out of step with contemporary western culture.

Happy Easter 🫡

Lá breithe shona Uachtarán 💚 A shining light for our people 🥰

The Last Buffet

In 2015, the GRA was so uncontroversial that I watched beacon of progress, Willie O’Dea, give a speech in the Dáil saying he didn’t think it went far enough

Wheel of Time > Rings of Power I said what I said.

Join a union & collectively tell them with your colleagues