Billy Donohoe - UNITE & Organise @WorkVoicePay

@unitetheunion Organiser in Scotland. hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is my only phobia which I can`t put into words

[Billy Donohoe - UNITE & Organise @WorkVoicePay @BillyUnite]

I stand with the #Birmingham Bin Strikers.

You cannot ban solidarity.

Standing with workers is not a crime.

Shame on @BhamCityCouncil.

#StrikeMap #BrumBinStrike #BirminghamBinStrike

[RMT @RMTunion]

RMT calls for insourcing of all railway staff following GTR nationalisation

Rail union RMT, demands all Govia Thameslink Railway staff be brought into direct employment after the train company became the latest to be brought under public control.

The union has been campaigning for all elements of the railway to be taken into public ownership and has welcomed the commitment by the government to launch Great British Railways with track and train all nationalised.

However, thousands of cleaners, gate line, security staff infrastructure maintenance, renewal and engineering workers, will remain employed by private contractors despite the Labour government's commitment to undertake the biggest wave of insourcing in a generation.

General secretary Eddie Dempsey said: "We want to see all our members on the railway receive the same benefits of public ownership and this includes outsourced workers.

"The Labour government needs to follow through on its commitment to undertake a mass wave of insourcing.

"Railway workers in outsourced companies work just as hard and contribute just as much to public transport as those directly employed.

"Across our union, thousands of outsourced workers are growing increasingly frustrated at having poorer wages, no sick pay and being treated as if they are a second-class workforce.

"RMT will industrially and politically maintain pressure on the government until it fulfils its obligations to our members."

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[Unite the union: join a union @unitetheunion]

⏰ Brits are working longer hours than we did 15 years ago. And we are paying for it with our health.
😓 Long hours lead to stress, fatigue, mental health issues, a reliance on processed foods – leading to obesity…
😁 Shorter working hours are good for us. And they are even associated with better workplace productivity.
More from p76 https://t.co/1GxR6Ny17m
🪧 If you are negotiating pay, use the Pay Claim Generator from Work Voice Pay and click the button to include a cut in working hours as part of your pay claim

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

134 years ago this cartoon was drawn, and in 134 years the problem has only gotten worse.

[Left Foot Forward @LeftFootFwd]

Your regular reminder 👇

🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS
🏫 78% want publicly owned schools
💧 73% want publicly owned water
🚂 70% want publicly owned rail
✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail
🚍 67% want publicly owned buses
💡 65% want publicly owned energy
https://t.co/f87YdlnLor

[Unite the union: join a union @unitetheunion]

🤔 So, what would you do?
👑 The King's speech set's out the government's plan. How would you tackle the #CostofLiving crisis, inequality, jobs...?
Introduce a Wealth Tax? 💰⚖️
Nationalise energy profits? 🔌🏭🇬🇧
Invest in jobs and homes? 👷🏠🌱

[Morning Star @M_Star_Online]

Today's front page:

BIG FOUR BANKS MAKE £14BN IN THREE MONTHS

Subscribe to the Morning Star: https://t.co/IErMcVLkje

[Unite the union: join a union @unitetheunion]

Know your rights:
⏰ Paid properly & on time
✍️ A written statement of employment
🏖️ Paid holiday, sick & parental leave
🖐️ Protection against bullying & discrimination
✊ Free to join a union…
The law sets the minimum you can expect from an employer. Your right to join a union enforces these minimums and goes beyond. We want Good jobs, decent pay & fair conditions. Not just the legal minimum.
🔴 Know your rights: Facts & Figures p68 https://t.co/xcS7bXr8wH
🔴 Join Unite https://t.co/EbucNKCAvP

[MarxMemorialLibrary @MarxLibrary]

What a memorable May Day it was! The Marx Memorial Library & Workers’ School were proud to welcome over 400 through our doors as the London May Day march assembled
Thank you to the FBU for the fire engine 🚒 our speakers & volunteers
Photographs courtesy Karl Weiss

[Skotia @TheSkotia]

"We have to remember where power lies," says Eddie Dempsey (@RMTunion) at Glasgow May Day.

[Unite the union: join a union @unitetheunion]

🚨 EVERY party standing for election in Birmingham has pledged to sign the deal & end the bins strike EXCEPT the Conservatives and LibDems. Where are they?
📨 Birmingham residents can send an urgent email to the Tory & LibDem leaders now https://t.co/z8uOBoL6Bx

[Tricontinental Institute for Social Research @tri_continental]

"Theory becomes a material force as soon as it has gripped the masses. It is capable of gripping the masses as soon as it becomes radical. To be radical is to grasp the root of the matter. But, for man, the root is man himself."

— Karl Marx, 1843

Happy birthday, old man.

[Billy Donohoe - UNITE & Organise @WorkVoicePay @BillyUnite]

#taxistotroon

@unitetheunion Glasgow Cab Section supporting Glasgow Taxi Outing Fund

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

Today marks the centenary of the start of the General Strike – a momentous event in British industrial and political history.

A century on, what are its lessons for today’s movement?

https://t.co/Tu9qzxAfwY

[RMT @RMTunion]

RMT members and branch banners at the Liverpool May Day Parade

[Sharon Graham @UniteSharon]

Victory to the #Birmingham bin workers 👊

Workers come first and @unitetheunion under my leadership will always back workers however long it takes. #JobsPayConditions

https://t.co/0Fx9UoQO1T

[Communist Party ☭ @CPBritain]

100 years ago today, 1.7 million British workers walked out. Not for themselves. In solidarity with miners facing wage cuts and longer hours.

For nine days, Britain stopped.

No trains ran. No newspapers printed except the workers' own bulletins. The docks fell silent. The government deployed troops and middle-class strikebreakers, but they couldn't keep the system running. Because the system runs on working-class labour, and for nine days, that labour said no.

The TUC capitulated on day nine. Called it off without winning a single demand, abandoned the miners to seven more months of starvation before defeat. That betrayal cost us decades.

But those nine days proved something the ruling class has never forgotten: when we organise collectively, we can shut down the entire capitalist economy.

They criminalised solidarity strikes after 1926. Made it illegal to do what had just shown our power so clearly. That tells you who was actually threatened.

A century on, we face the same fight. Employers are using inflation as cover for real wage cuts. Attacking unions. Demanding we accept austerity as inevitable. And the same question: do we fight collectively or get picked off one sector at a time?

The 1926 strike failed because its leadership feared working-class power more than they wanted victory. But the rank and file built strike committees, organised distribution, kept communities fed, and ran their own media. They showed what we're capable of when we refuse capital's logic.

#GeneralStrike #LabourHistory #WorkingClass #TradeUnions #Solidarity #ClassStruggle

[Unite the union: join a union @unitetheunion]

After 16 months, Birmingham City Council has finally made an offer to bin workers - a step forward in a possible breakthrough toward ending the strike.

Last week, faith leaders and community groups from across the city stood shoulder to shoulder with the city's refuse workers strike. The message was loud and clear: Birmingham stands with its workers.

There’s now a real opportunity to reach an agreement - the council needs to act and see this through.

📹 National Lead Officer for Unite the Union Onay Kasab speaks at event

Let’s secure a fair deal for Birmingham’s bin workers and the wider community ✊

#birmingham #binstrike #birminghamcitycouncil

[Unite the union: join a union @unitetheunion]

🚨BREAKING Deal agreed to end bins strike after 15 months!
It is an absolute abhorrence that this deal has been blocked not just once but twice by unelected unaccountable commissioners and officers at Birmingham City Council.
Congratulations to the Unite members who stood firm throughout, backed by their union.
“The move made today by the leader of the council is a vindication of the bin workers’ struggle for a decent deal” @UniteSharon

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

134 years ago this cartoon was drawn, and in 134 years the problem has only gotten worse.

[Thompsons Solicitors Scotland @TalkToThompsons]

“There are law firms that act for trade unions – and then there are trade union law firms.”

We're proud to stand with the trade union movement and fight for workers’ rights – yesterday, today and always.

🎥 Partner Patrick McGuire at @ScottishTUC Congress #STUC2026