Strikes by around 320 tram drivers working for KeolisAmey Metrolink Limited later this month are back on, after workers overwhelmingly voted to reject the company’s proposals for tackling driver fatigue.

On Monday 8 December, MPs will debate a petition relating to digital ID Write to your MP youtube.com/shorts/QCDR_...

A mandatory digital ID scheme will not stop the key problem of illegal worker “impersonation”, experts have told the government. www.thetimes.com/article/f418...

Looking forward to hosting this event with @gmlawcentre.bsky.social Join us @bdtuc.bsky.social @gftu.org.uk @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @manniequinn.bsky.social @leicesterworker.bsky.social

Employment Rights Bill (Consideration of Commons Amendments): Another round of ping-pong will take place on the Government’s employment rights legislation, after the Commons considered the Lords’ amendments on Wednesday 5 November.

Looking forward to co hosting this event with @gmlawcentre.bsky.social Booking details and speakers announced on Monday

Big Brother Watch director Silkie Carlo answers your questions about facial recognition. youtu.be/_qtRR7f3XB8?...

Tomorrow we will be standing in #solidarity with striking @unison members N.West Ambulance Educators NWAS HQ Bolton Friday 24th October 8am until 10am. Ladybridge Hall, 399 Chorley New Road, Bolton, Lancashire, BL1 5DD

Next week GMP will deploy live facial recognition in Sale town centre. Successive Policing Ministers have pledged a legal framework for live facial recognition, but as weeks have stretched into months, we’ve seen no progress, only further expansion. We condemn the march towards an Orwellian state

🚫 Stop blacklisting 🚫 Stop strike-breaking 🚫 Stop wasting council-tax-payers' money 🚫 Stop attacking your workers 🚫 End the bins strike! #Blacklisting #BirminghamBinsStrike

It is noteworthy that not all those who are working in the stores are employees and therefore not factored in. So for example, ancillary workers who are employed by an agency and almost entirely on minimum wage do not feature in the calculation leftfootforward.org/2025/10/the-...

Lord John Hendy KC, one of the UK’s leading employment barristers and the chair of the Institute of Employment Rights, said the findings were “shocking” and had “profound implications” for employment law. He said it should be a “wake-up call” for the government. mailchi.mp/eb31110dcedc...

Labour lacks any original thought. In the last week we’ve seen Mandatory ID cards rehashed and now reintroducing tribunal costs – if the employment rights bill wasn’t a big enough joke it is now removing access to any benefits that the Act may bring www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...

18th September is International Equal Pay Day

Is it true that this government is hamstrung by the UK’s ailing economy? And why are so many people turning to Reform? soundcloud.com/weeklyeconom...

Unite calls for entire welfare bill to be dropped and for government to start again

Admitted that P&O knew they were breaking the law sacking 800 workers but justified the decision on a financial basis as the workers could be replaced by those earning £4.87 an hour He also revealed he earned more than £500,000 in 2023. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This should ring alarms bell about political rhetoric, media focus and media silence. bylinetimes.com/2025/08/12/t...

Reeves needs to find £40bn - I know a group of people who could pay that in extra taxes without even feeling it www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“You have to assume that at some point something’s going to be cooked up about you – some sort of smear – or there will be another vote, and then they will suspend you.” bylinetimes.com/2025/07/30/l...

Starmer and The Sun: An Appointment that Shows Everything that Is Wrong with Power and the Press in Britain bylinetimes.com/2025/08/01/s...

Great support today for the striking NWAS members of UNISON

"The dispute is about union recognition. The right to have the rep of our choice at the negotiating table for negotiating pay terms and conditions. Veolia could end this dispute today and it would cost them nothing to do so" Joel Mayfield

Taking a message of #solidarity to striking @BMA members #bma #doctors #strike

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... It’s a simple test: does the government operate in the interests of the country, or in the interests of private capital? This shouldn’t be a difficult choice for Labour to make, yet, as with so many such tests, it flunks it.

The privatisation of rail was a sham and failure from the very start. It has stifled the wages and expendable incomes of the workers and hence made our communities poorer but the rich richer. This should be the first of many renationalisations www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#IWMD 10:30 28th April Bolton

60 years of the anti-racism Convention: progress and achievements in the fight against racial discrimination www.un.org/en/observanc...

Artificial intelligence for creative workers A TUC manifesto www.tuc.org.uk/research-ana...

With over 50k rail workers set to retire in the next 5 years, the Charter lays out demands to ensure apprenticeships are no longer treated as low-paid, insecure, and substandard roles, but as a respected and vital investment in the future of the transport industry. www.rmt.org.uk/news/rmt-lau...

Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “This is a cruel increase which is going to hit the elderly and low paid workers the hardest. www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/...

New research from Pregnant Then Screwed, in partnership with Women In Data®, has revealed a sharp increase in the number of women who are potentially pushed out of their job when pregnant, during or when returning from maternity leave. pregnantthenscrewed.com/74000-women-...

#solidarity works www.tuc.org.uk/workplace-gu...

Great turn out today

A clearer and expanded role for the fire service in fire protection and inspection makes absolute sense 1. They are experts, 2. They are imparial and not subject to conflicts of commercial interest in carrying out their role 3. They are under democratic control

Leaders of Labour affiliated trade unions issue an appeal to the Government to stand firm on workers rights. www.ier.org.uk/news/leaders...

#BDS Let Reebok know that they have made a bad decision

Judge Carr should lay off Sir Kier, after all its not like he a human rights lawyer or anything www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

While many of us associate attacks on women’s bodily autonomy with ultra-religious groups, openDemocracy’s Sian Norris argues that the stripping away of abortion rights is a political issue, rooted in fascistic ideas about women and men youtu.be/-QwmhpsiLA0?...

Starmers position is not about doing what is right, it is about the threat of Farage and Starmers own future www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Reeve made a fiscal straight jacket for herself, is she going to have the integrity to admit she was wrong? www.theguardian.com/business/202...