It's your time, not your bosses.

Thames Water have sent me the annual water bill. Just look at those year on year rises over the last five years. Criminal.

The trade union movement is also against the undermining of copyright. Creative workers are the backbone of our creative industries.

Make real wage growth unremarkable again

A recent TUC poll found that 59% of business leaders say they are losing staff time due to the poor state of public services. 🚨 Weak social infrastructure isn’t just a public sector issue—it’s an economic one. www.tuc.org.uk/news/more-ha...

Stagnant living standards are one of many reasons the Tories were kicked out of office after 14 years - Labour has made it our mission to improve them via renters' rights, housebuilding and raising the minimum wage.

I saw illegality and complicity with war crimes. That’s why I quit the UK Foreign Office, a devastating account by a UK diplomat who quit in Aug 2024. Ministers & senior officials protected arms deals facilitating death and horror in Gaza and Yemen. Parliament emasculated. No one held to account.

We revealed Nigel Farage’s voting record to his constituents in Clacton. They weren’t happy.

What this Times article ignores is that this is already happenning with agricultural workers and care workers... and it is a human rights disaster. As we reported workers live on farms in uninsulated, cramped, mouldy and unsafe housing. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023...

Selling a BFI Southbank ticket for Jeanne Dielman, with intro by Laura Mulvey. Sat 8th Feb, 6pm. Face value £13.50 @lffstubs.bsky.social whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

So relentless has been Israel’s assault, and so complete the destruction in northern Gaza that a former Israeli defence minister described the military’s actions there as ‘ethnic cleansing’. Here's how the Israeli military erased a town of 200,000 people in Gaza. on.ft.com/3DTS14e

Spotted @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social on the newsstand today so I bought the paper

Should water bills go up when rivers are full of sewage? I was on BBC News today saying Ofwat + the Minister should instead: 💦let polluting water companies lose their licences 💷make reckless banks take a haircut to zero 🍃transfer water into public hands to invest👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD6T...

🚌 Support striking Manchester bus workers, fighting low pay today 🪧 & keeping #Manchester moving every day. ❗️Tell Transport fpr Greater Manchester to negotiate a fair rise now ❗️Please share this post #fairpay NOW!

At our event yesterday, Kate Bell argued that international evidence suggests there doesn't need to be a trade-off between job quantity and job quality.

The correct position on British lunch culture is that it is bad. Lunches should be long, indulgent and shared.

TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak is now on Bluesky at @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social - Give him a follow.

Greetings from Congress House, home of the British trade union movement

Two more trade unions joining Bluesky today - @unitetheunion.bsky.social and @unisontheunion.bsky.social - taking our union starter pack up to 16. go.bsky.app/39dpPLN