Bolsanaro, Sarkozy… come on Johnson I’ve got you in an accumulator.

Starbucks is a multi-billion dollar company. Their CEO made 6,666x what the average barista made last year. It’s time for them to get serious, finish negotiating a strong union contract and invest in @sbworkersunited.org baristas who power their profits.

Peter Mandelson being sacked for a third time? Oh you are spoiling us ambassador.

open.spotify.com/episode/68ut... In the run up to TUC 2025 a quick look back to our recent podcast on how unions are changing to address new realities at work

www.facebook.com/share/p/1U44... Solidarity with asylum seekers

Couple of things for Starmers spinners to keep in mind. 1. The new party being formed, like the Corbyn movement in 2016, is a symptom of the splitting left vote, not its cause. 2. The voters are miles ahead of MPs and already voting as if we had PR. Labour better catch up and quick

London is safer than most other parts of the UK. If they were honest people claiming "London has fallen" would agree that they are just unhappy that the most popular elected Mayor we ever had in London is Muslim

open.spotify.com/episode/31Bh... With the Annual TUC gathering due in a couple of weeks and recent union membership growth faltering, time to look back to our recent OfaC podcast on a great union building story

Solidarity with RMT

Out and about for the first time in a while so thought I'd take a stroll through our streets with 100,000 neighbours. (And some day trippers from up North.)

🚨 Campaign win🚨 Today it has been announced funding for Level 7 apprenticeships for a range of health roles has been secured until 2029. Since May, we have been warning the Westminster government about the impact of removing this funding, and they listened. Read more. ⬇️ bit.ly/3UmRCMJ

Best politicians money can buy? Repeating "no rules or laws were broken" when they get caught grifting - as if its some kind of get out of jail free card - is getting embarrasing. They made the rules and laws to suit themselves. We voted to change them.

We're living through a dark age of online misogyny. Education is the only answer, says comedian Chloe Petts.

Tommy- Stephen-Yaxley-Lennon-Robinson- Cokey McCoke Face is on the run again. Cyprus poolside TikTok of victimhood to follow.

t.co/iTJxYqoKSy With the temperature rising over pay justice in UK Hospital Wards, a quick look back at the OfaC podcast into Unisons union building campaign with Health Care Assistants

Gaza report. But If the BBC declared all the relatives and drinking buddies of BBC producers, editors, journalists and executives who they commision to make programmes or be a "talking head" the credits and disclaimers would take longer than the programmes! Auntie runs on nepotism and croneyism.

The Rick Smith Show - June 25, 2025 Some may have missed Trump's odd rant against national holidays, when he said that there are too many holidays and that all of us need to work more than we already do. But the fact he said this on Juneteenth isn't a coincidence. And while Trump's racism is pret

Dad-of-four Mike tells Big Issue how his uses the PIP benefit to pay for the therapy that keeps his depression and suicidal ideation at bay.

open.spotify.com/episode/7oXa... With driverless cabs and buses on our streets within a year and alarm over ChatGPT "hallucinating", (making stuff up) unions need to ramp up their claims for Digital Just Transition as the 5th Industrial Revolution gains pace

open.spotify.com/episode/494w... With Bill Gates suggesting we "tax the AI robots" to fund UBI and suggestions that autonomous taxis and trains will soon start to reduce humans working in transport, a return to the OfaC podcast on Universal Basic Income from July 2024

💷 £400 million per year of YOUR money fuels outsourcing profits - not better trains. Join our #EndRailOutsourcing campaign launch livestream this Wednesday at 6 p.m. and help us bring rail back in-house. rmtunion.org/3GzSQk0

LIBERTY DEFEATS GOVERNMENT APPEAL AS COURT RULES ANTI-PROTEST LAWS ARE UNLAWFUL This should be on every UK News channel www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/libert...

Time to end the failed experiment of contracting out public services. Wage theft as a business model

open.spotify.com/episode/31Bh... Last in series until the Autumn. How the PDA built a 50,000 strong union in pharmacies

youtu.be/YYDtKdydsxw 130 years of this great trade union organisation. Heres to the next 130

open.spotify.com/episode/7oXa... Batgaining with the algorithm and union building to take on new tech exploitation

open.spotify.com/episode/6Kzv... Employers always oppose union building. Blacklisting is the most extreme method

March 12 - Victory for Bread & Roses Strike The year was 1912. The Lawrence MA. Textile workers strike had worn on for over a month. More than 20,000 workers had walked off the job. Most of them were young women.

Ep. 30. Taking a Stand: Union Solidarity Against Apartheid in South Africa Using interviews from the B.C. Labour Heritage Centre's Oral History Project, the Canadian Anti-Apartheid Activist History Project, and a retired BCGEU (BC General Services Union) activist, this episode tells the impressiv

Union Talk; Labor Radio (WORT); Labor Exchange; The SAG-AFTRA Podcast; Heartland Labor Forum; LabourStart On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Teachers talk about the impact education cuts will have on kids, on the Union Talk podcast…Then, from Labor Radio on WORT, teachers and advocates ra

morningstaronline.co.uk/article/its-... Good piece on an invisible workforce for International Womens Day

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Res3... Soon we'll be shipbuilding...

open.spotify.com/episode/4SI5... Union building in the care sector with Kelly Andrews

🚨 Grenfell fire families face waiting 10 years to see changes and reforms fully implemented www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

Medicaid covers nearly half of all children born in the country and around two-thirds of nursing home care for seniors. The Republican Party is voting today on a budget framework with will gut Medicaid to finance more tax cuts for the top 1%. "Party of family values."

This is what House Republicans voted for tonight. Another reminder that we have socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH SPOTLIGHTS ✨ Roushaunda Williams, UNITE HERE Local 1 leader & Illinois AFL-CIO Executive Board VP — "As a union, we know how to bring people together to fight ... We organize to bridge our differences, find solidarity, and win.”

Ed Miliband Says he is 'worried' about rocketing energy bills & that the Labour Govt will bring forward 'proposals'. Here's a couple of 'proposals' from us: 💡Take energy companies into public ownership ✋ Reverse the #WinterFuel cut 💰Tax the rich to pay for it

msmithorganiser.wixsite.com/organisingfo... Employer hostility to union building is on the rise and designed to increase fear of the boss in the workplace. A hamdy guide to bosses gameplay for union builders from Organising for a Change

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open.spotify.com/episode/5K39... More from OfaC Radio with special guest Mick Rix

Power At Work Blogcast #79: What Could Happen Under Trump?: The Future of Organizing In the fourth blogcast of Power At Work’s series ‘What Could Happen Under Trump?”, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Steven Schwartz, LIUNA Organizing Director, Emily Stewart,