Thanks to @roswynnejones.bsky.social at The Mirror for her coverage today - members were happy to see themselves and their fight featured

We were back on the picket line at Livv Housing this morning with our general secretary @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social , Knowsley MP @anneliesemidgleymp.bsky.social and importantly, @knowsleyunison.bsky.social and @unitenorthwest.bsky.social members The support is growing and will until they win✊

The extreme hoarding of wealth is sociopathic. Example below. It amazes me that people can argue the toss that hospital cleaners shouldn’t get sick pay from day one, and argue just as vehemently that the super rich shouldn’t be asked to pay their fair share of tax.

Why are billionaires so unhappy?

The state of Kemi Badenoch’s response to the sentencing, confirming there is no topic, however serious, that she will do the minimum of research on.

We have had so much in recent weeks about suspected cover ups and the damage to trust attributed to various key institutions in the UK. Will those folks extend that criticism to The Sun, or does that institution get a free pass?

The public enquiry should also consider the behaviour of elected politicians during the investigation and prosecution of this case, and their willingness to confect rumour and spread inflammatory misinformation in the service of their own agendas.

Representatives of 🆘, SpionKop1906, LFCWSC, cultuRED and the OLSC network have written to Liverpool FC ahead of discussions around ticket pricing. #LFC #StopExploitingLoyalty

This is why CEOs don't like the phrase 'work-life balance'.

If one in six workers are skipping meals because of a lack of cash, there is something fundamentally wrong with our economy. And it’s why it is vital the government delivers its plans to make work pay, in full. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Honestly, the lengths some companies go to avoiding directly employing staff. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

"Prices have risen over 800% since 1992. That is not sustainable." #StopExploitingLoyalty www.theguardian.com/football/202...

I’m not saying my worry my 3 year old might be the most like me is coming true, but she’s currently leading a march around the kitchen demanding ice cream 📢

"Patriot" apparently. Ah well, he will have more time to read Mein Kampf now. 👍

No…it wasn’t. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Important public interest journalism from @joeduggan1.bsky.social at the i We @the-tuc.bsky.social are calling for a ban on the use of high-silica stone as young men working with it continue to die. They are all around my age (average age 34). Preventable deaths. Front page news. As it should be.

To celebrate joining Bluesky, here's the most joyful cricket video of 2024:

Ineos/Ratcliffe have form for this stuff. This kind of hostility towards workers and former players is damaging to a club as a whole.

Really do need to make the most of this being at the bottom of the road next year!

Excl: Crumbling state of school buildings is exposing pupils to “irreparable” harm, the UK’s children’s laureate has said, after a Guardian investigation revealed that more than 1.5 million students were being taught in dilapidated schools www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Given how he’s playing with a new contract hanging over him, even I might agree to Salah being on a zero hours contract!

About a 10th of the number of Ukrainian refugee children state schools took in without any panicked coverage. Such nonsense.

Sing the Andy Carroll song lads…

Southampton singing ‘Feed the Scousers’? Who’s leading the chant for them, Rishi Sunak? Divvies

Tomorrow morning, show your solidarity with @knowsleyunison.bsky.social and @unitenorthwest.bsky.social members as they continue to take action against Livv Housing, as the employer attempts to undermine collective bargaining 8am, Livv Housing, Prescot ✊

I will be joining my colleagues at the Guardian and Observer who are on strike for 48 hours. I will be back at work on Friday. For more information please follow bsky.app/profile/gonu... and @NUJofficial, or visit nuj.org.uk/savetheobserver

Privilege to join @nujofficial.bsky.social members for the first journalists’ strike at @theguardian.com in over 50 years. Time for management to seriously listen and engage with their staff about the future of the @observeruk.bsky.social

Guardian + Observer journalists on strike 4th and 5th Dec. They’re fighting to stop selling off profitable Observer to loss-making Tortoise Media website and to defend jobs. Union members ask we support and not repost Guardian stories on strike days. Solidarity with NUJ strikers.

Millionaire Stefan Ortega

Tomorrow is not only yet another key match day and our Rainbow Laces match, but also World AIDS Day. So much has changed since it was first marked in 1988, yet stigma and need still remain. This year, friends of Kop Outs are holding a fundraiser after the match. Come along if you are around.

Great to be down at the Livv Housing picket line this morning with @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social and @jaymckenna.bsky.social giving some solidarity to striking @unitenorthwest.bsky.social and @unison.org.uk members ✊ The strength of feeling was clear and Livv need to get back around the table

But hang on, I hear (some of) you say... what about small boats? They're the main thing most politicians talk about after all... So how DO small boat arrivals compare with legal migration? Here's your answer in a chart 👇

Bigger let off than them fireworks outside the hotel!

🧵 Very worrying from @priceoffootball.bsky.social on his podcast re the £30 away ticket cap: "I'm aware of some clubs, especially bigger clubs in London, who privately want to take down the £30 cap but the optics of going down that route when we have just been through some really tough times...

The obsession of our national debate about the benefits system with how it should respond to people 'refusing to work' has massively hindered progress towards more effective support It would be like discussing how to be a good employer almost exclusively in terms of managing disciplinary processes

I see the fella who has engineered a World Cup across three continents is hitting up Cop29. Also the fella who urges everyone to keep politics out of football, here hanging out with lots of politicians.

Still chuckling to myself about a kid I met today on a school visit who told me her auntie does the same job as me. I asked her who her auntie was, and she looked really confused and said "um, she's my mum's sister" 🥹

What happens when working people stand together like the @gmbunion.bsky.social members here? They win 🎉 A big well done to those members who’ve fought for so long and have all won the payment they deserve

With farm owners protesting today over the prospect of paying a highly discounted inheritence tax, I'm sure you've seen quotes about how they "feed the nation". But nobody is talking about the migrant workers who actually pick the crops on horticulture farms, so here's a short thread about them.

Brilliant day yesterday in Liverpool (it always is!) Met with @gmbunion.bsky.social hospital workers striking for fair pay, @unisontheunion.bsky.social reps in Liverpool Council working hard to secure jobs & conditions & then brilliant politics & business students at Liverpool Community College

Please join us on Monday for a vigil in #Liverpool on International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women & Girls. There are #NoExcuses for misogyny & gendered violence. #EVAWG2024

The lads at Kit It Out are fundraising for kids who won’t get new kits this Xmas - every little helps: www.gofundme.com/f/kit-it-out...

Driving a tractor into police. Will be interesting to see how the Telegraph and the Mail cover this tomorrow

quick, the farms are empty, let’s build some houses

It was great to join @gmbunion.bsky.social members on the picket line this morning at the Royal Liverpool hospital and bring some solidarity with with our General Secretary, Paul Nowak and @jaymckenna.bsky.social These workers did their jobs during Covid and deserve payment like their colleagues

What are the farmers planning?!?!!

Welcoming unions CWU @cwunews.bsky.social, NAHT @nahtnews.bsky.social & WGGB @writersguildgb.bsky.social onto Bluesky today. Starter pack here: go.bsky.app/39dpPLN

This is an incredible piece of writing, very personal but also something about I’m sure many friendships (can likely apply beyond just kids) 👏

If Adidas make us a kit like this when they start next season, even I might buy one!