📣Union members in the Midlands: A thought-provoking evening in #BurtonUponTrent. Speakers will include @stuart-richards.bsky.social; Danielle Jackson of @pcsunion.bsky.social and Louise Regan of @neunion.bsky.social & me. 📣 24/10/2025 www.forgottenburtonstories.co.uk/post/discuss...

I’m so glad that @tomvickers.bsky.social was around to pull together the stories and lesson from the campaign to build a union in Amazon Coventry It’s a brilliant read with additional essays by some of those involved (even me!) It’s available now but don’t buy it from Amazon 😉

The British pottery industry is in crisis Add your name to the campaign calling for urgent action now - www.potterspledge.uk

While Jeff Bezos held a lavish wedding in Venice, Amazon refused to send a high-level representative to testify in the European Parliament. This is an insult to its workers and our democratic institutions. We demand an end to Amazon's contracts with the European institutions.

The government has signed a Dying to Work agreement with 6 unions to bring much needed protection for workers with a terminal illness across the civil service There is power in a union ✊

"TUC Midlands marks 20 years of celebrating the 1910 chainmakers’ victory with a festival that connects historical lessons to modern struggles — because working-class history should inspire action, not just nostalgia" @mstaronline.bsky.social morningstaronline.co.uk/article/wome...

The Women Chainmakers’ Festival is the only annual Trade Union run festival inspired by the successes of working-class women Follow the link to donate and support the festival support-the-women-chainmakers-festival.raiselysite.com

Great to join the ´Trade Unions and University Research: Collaborating to make work better’ Conference at Nottingham Trent University today Lots of interesting discussions around how trade unionists and academic researchers can work together to improve working conditions

How do we defeat Reform and the far right? We come together, build collective strength and fight back ✊ Huge thanks to everyone who joined the SUTR event in Birmingham today

It’s nearly time for the Women Chainmakers Festival 2025! Here’s what’s on and when

"What is this obsession with becoming billionaires?" - Jameela Jamil

Since 2010, we have lost: 279 school playing fields 750 youth centres 793 playgrounds 800 libraries 1,086 swimming pools 1,416 Sure Start children’s centres No wonder children have nowhere to go Tax multi millionaires, give us back our public services www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

“The real problem is the model: we shouldn’t be subsidising union-busting, tax-avoiding, anti-democratic companies". Oliver Roethig spoke to @euobserver.com for this long piece on our proposal for an Amazon Tax.

Yesterday’s Derby’s Silk Mill Festival was brilliant! It’s not everyday you get to do a speech from on top of a fire engine

Just one day to go! Really looking forward to the Derby Silk Mill Festival ✊

Add your name now to demand the Employment Rights Bill is passed - in full, and without delay www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/pa...

Really looking forward to reading Logging Off by @adelewalton.bsky.social It takes a long hard look at the digital world and big tech, including a bit on Amazon warehouses I even get a mention!

This evening, I got to join Garfield Hylton, brilliant union leader at Amazon Coventry, and some fab @teamsters.bsky.social colleagues We spoke at the “How can academics support workers’ organising at Amazon?” event Huge thanks to the team at Sheffield University’s Centre for Decent Work

Years of underfunding in both councils and schools, the dislocation caused by Academisation, low pay and increased workloads have all contributed to create an SEND crisis Thanks to @alexballingermp.bsky.social for creating a space to talk about what we need to rebuild SEND provision

The UK has fallen to 22 in ILGA-Europe’s annual rankings of nations A decade ago the UK topped the list This is why pride is a protest. 🏳️‍🌈✊ rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org?utm_source=S...

Looks like Birmingham City Council is trying to ban culture If you think they should let the music play and focus on some of the city’s real problems, please take a few minutes and complete the consultation 👇 www.birminghambeheard.org.uk/bcc/citycent...

The default position for the presentation of working class history is far too often a sanitized gloss that ignores the role of trade unions Can’t think of a better example than the Black Country Living Museum turning the Workers’ Institute into a Police Station for the "1960's weekend"

Great to join David Etherington, Professor of Local and Regional Economic Development, University of Staffordshire, at the North Staffs TUC launch of the report: Still Digging Deeper: The Impact of Austerity on Inequalities and Deprivation in the Coalfield Areas eprints.staffs.ac.uk/8893/1/Coalf...

Great to bring representatives from 5 unions to Parliament to talk with Midlands Labour MPs I’m looking forward to following up on our discussions

Huge thanks again to the amazing Polly Smythe for delivering this year’s Mary Macarthur lecture for TUC Midlands novaramedia.com/contributor/...

Louis Mosley, the UK head of Pallantir, went unchallenged on Laura Keunssberg’s BBC programme when he said the company was not political and their founder was a member of the Democrats The reality around the company’s conservative founder is very different

It was great to join the protest at the Lifford Depot in Bham This clearly shows the level of support for @unitetheunion.bsky.social bin workers ✊

Is this how work should be?

Another step closer to victory for Coventry’s Amazon workers url1005.email.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/u001.T4...

Sometimes it’s the simplest messages that mean the most

Coventry TUC colleagues do an amazing amount of work supporting their community and standing up for the labour movement So, it was a huge privilege to join them and speak at the May Day rally ✊

In a day of bleak politics, it was wonderful to spend the evening listening to the amazing Polly Smythe deliver the annual TUC Midlands Mary Macarthur Lecture Check out her work as @novaramedia.com’s labour movement correspondent novaramedia.com/contributor/...

It was a pleasure to join West Midlands HongKonger Support CIC, UK Welcome Refugees and researchers from the University of Bham today The talk ranged from the latest survey of workers who had migrated to the UK from Hong Kong, to how UK unions can support the community to organise ✊

Huge thanks to everyone who attended the @tuc.org.uk International Workers' Memorial Day event at the National Memorial Arboretum These events not only highlight the preventable nature of workplace deaths, but also promote how union organising delivers real improvements in workplace safety

Lots of things planned for this week! I’m looking forward to this one ✊

Supreme Court trans ruling could mean UK ‘not meeting its human rights obligations’

What you ever want to know about #Collective_Bargaining in #Germany: The Annual Report of the WSI Collective Agreement Archive is now available in English. With all important data on new settelments, wages and working time, bargaining coverage etc. www.boeckler.de/fpdf/HBS-009...

Each year, TUC Midlands holds the Mary Macarthur Lecture It’s an opportunity for leading women to set out how we tackle the challenges facing women today This year’s speaker is the fabulous Polly Smythe Reserve your place here 👇 forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Great to join @fbunational.bsky.social and @unison.org.uk colleagues today as Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service signed up to give workers much needed protection through the #DyingToWork charter Find out more at www.dyingtowork.co.uk

7️⃣ HOURS TO GO Almost 8000 people have now sent our template response to Ofcom's consultation on cutting our deliveries in HALF. Can you take just 1 minute to send it and demand public ownership of Royal Mail? Click here: weownit.org.uk/act-now/usin...

Thanks Stuart and @tuc.org.uk! Time for employers to do the right thing and #PayFairForPatientCare Messages of support and hardship donations ⏬ eastmidlands.unison.org.uk/pay-fair-for...

For years, Band 2 staff at Nottingham University Hospitals have been underpaid It’s time for the hospitals bosses to do the right thing and pay their staff the money they’re owed Sending solidarity from @tuc.org.uk to the @unison.org.uk members striking today ✊

This little band of Trump sock puppet shills has voted against stopping fire and rehire They’ve voted against day one employment rights and sick pay They’ve voted against a fairer playing field for unions Phoney photo opps won’t change this

🔴 For *four years* officials refused to release names of all companies linked to Conservative donors and party figures put in the 'VIP' lane for bumper Covid contracts Now a judge has ordered them to. Huge win for @jennacorderoy.bsky.social (and DfS) democracyforsale.substack.com/p/government...

Mae #TrefnwchNawr ar y gweill yn Ewlo! Rydym yn sôn am ddefnyddio'r Gymraeg i drefnu, lleihau straen yn y gweithle ac adeiladu’r mudiad undebau llafur. #OrganiseNow is underway in Ewloe! We're talking about Welsh Language organising, reducing workplace stress and building the trade union movement.

🚽 Bog Standard? Following an RMT intervention, this bus workers' toilet in South West England was given a much needed upgrade. Inspect Your Toilet. This @tuc.org.uk week of action will see hundreds of reps check toilet breaks and facilities. Find out more ⬇️ www.tuc.org.uk/workplace-to...

This week is @tuc.org.uk workplace toilet facilities inspections week. ASLEF's recent Dignity for Drivers report highlighted the impacts of a lack of clean and safe toilet facilities - and the time to use them - on train drivers.

🚨MUST READ - TikTok content moderators in Türkiye tell @tbij.bsky.social and @the-independent.com about abusive, traumatic conditions they face — and say their employer #Telus fired them after forming a union. www.independent.co.uk/tech/tiktok-...

How do we stop Reform? We organise! Great to join union activists at tonight’s SUTR event in Nottingham