500,000 workers take strike action today. They are taking on corporate and government greed and power.
RT if you back every single individual who is on the picket lines today.
#EnoughIsEnough
300,000 teachers are on strike today. Why?
📉 Real pay down by 23% since 2010
📖 Devastating austerity cuts to school budgets
👩🏫 Stress, exhaustion and unbearable workloads amid a retention and recruitment crisis
RT if you're with our teachers 👊
Fox closed her eyes, felt the cold on her face
She smiled at the darkness, lost in winter's brace
Solstice had come, the promise of more light
Nature's cycle was done by end of this night
She wished all souls love with the return of the sun
and #SolsticeBlessings for everyone
The cost of meeting the nurses' pay demand - £1.6bn 🏥
Cost of Sunak's bank tax giveaway - £7.3bn 💸
They have the money to give nurses a proper pay rise- they just don't want to.
RT if you back a real pay rise for our nurses 👊
Why are paramedics on strike?
📉Real pay down £6,000 since 2010
🏥Hours-long delays at hospital due to lack of beds
😞 53% struggling to cope with demands of their jobs
🚑A third witnessed cases where a patient's death was linked to a delay
RT if you're with them 👊
Tomorrow we begin strike action – will you support us?
Wherever you are, tell us why you're backing the strike using #RCNStrike and make sure nursing staff know you stand with them.
#FairPayForNursing
115,000 Posties 💌
80,000 Railway workers 🚆
100,000 Nurses 👩⚕️
25,000 Paramedics 🚑
100,000 Civil Servants 💼
This Christmas, workers across different sectors are fighting back not just for better pay and conditions but for better public services.
RT if you're with them 👊
Royal Mail says it plans to make up to 6,000 people redundant by next August, blaming ongoing strikes and financial losses. Royal Mail made £758m last year, gave CEOs and Chief Financial Officer £2m in bonuses and shareholders £400m. Posties are offered real-terms pay cuts.
E.ON – Britain's biggest energy supplier – today announced £3,000,000,000+ in profits in the last 6 months.
Don’t let them tell you that price rises are inevitable.
Join the fight to put your need before their greed: https://t.co/1SeHcIXdMr
Everything they are doing to the NHS they did to British Rail.
Underfunded it, exhausted the srvice, got the public angry and then said privatisation is the solution.
We cannot allow that to happen - RT if you agree
Earth Hour is THIS Saturday at 8:30 pm (your local time). Everyone has the power to shape our future. Learn more about #EarthHour 2022: https://t.co/uQIp45Moli.
Happy New Year!! Hope you are all relaxing and happy.
"Keep smiling", that is what my Dad always said 😁
In January I will be posting pictures of the wonderful pieces created by the people who attend the Rathbone Studio pottery workshops. Lots of brilliant pottery 🌟🌟🌟
Born in Liverpool, the Rathbones were one of Liverpool's pre-eminent Liberal families and were noted, philanthropists. They played a key role in the cultural life of the city, such as contributing generously to the foundation of the University of Liverpool.
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