Gillian Ashcroft-Smith

Disabled Activist, Facilitator and Artist, Director of Sustainable Starts. Living with HSD and Fibromyalgia. Also a Mum and employee of NML. She/her/hers. 🧙🏻‍

[PCS Liverpool Museums @PCSLiverpoolMus]

Once upon a time, we were promised a cost-of-living payment...

So on this 'Fairytales' themed picket line, forget evil queens and witheld fortunes. We still hold out for our happy ever after!

Give up your golden egg, don't be a sleeping beauty, and pay your workers! #NMLPayUp

[PCS Liverpool Museums @PCSLiverpoolMus]

It was an honour to take part in Liverpool’s May Day March in solidarity with international and local trade unions, and the people of Palestine.

We also had a chance to send a clear message outside @World_Museum to @NML_Muse that it’s time they pay up what they owe.

#NMLPayUp

[Gillian Ashcroft-Smith @RollWithGillian]

@DapperD71783574 @PCSLiverpoolMus Interesting that you think the organisation is going to run out of money. Yes, the organisation is looking for lots of ways to save money and finances are difficult, but the gov has provided further funds for projects, which suggests they're not worried about it going under.

[PCS Liverpool Museums @PCSLiverpoolMus]

Our youngest picketers Eva and Jake made a bee-autiful placard today 🐝✊

@NML_Muse do right by your worker bees and pollinate their pockets with the £1500 cost of living payment they deserve

#NMLPayUp #PCSonStrike

[PCS Union (pcs.org.uk) @pcs_union]

Superheroes and bees causing a buzz on the sunny picket line outside @NML_Muse's World Museum Liverpool today.
#NMLPayUp #PCSonStrike

[Gillian Ashcroft-Smith @RollWithGillian]

RIP Bernard Hill - I'll never forget the impression you made on me as a child and how it helped shape my understanding of my father's city and the place I now called home.
"Gizza job"!
An amazing actor, such a loss to the profession. 😔

[BBC Merseyside @bbcmerseyside]

Bernard Hill: Titanic and Lord of the Rings actor dies https://t.co/SRrCMqwhWZ

[PCS Liverpool Museums @PCSLiverpoolMus]

What better than @comconliverpool and a strike to get Captain Kirk, Ferris Bueller, and Captain America together?

We’re outside @World_Museum today and will be all Bank Holiday Weekend, every weekend and half term until @NML_Muse pay us what we’re owed

#NMLPayUp

[PCS Union (pcs.org.uk) @pcs_union]

We're back!
A brilliant turn out on the picket line outside World Museum Liverpool as #PCS members working for NML start their next 30 days of strike action.
Today's picket line was bee-themed as the new Bees exhibition opens at World Museum.
#NMLPayUp #PCSonStrike #Solidarity

[PCS Liverpool Museums @PCSLiverpoolMus]

This evening, three of our great reps leafleted outside @World_Museum to let VIP invitees know that whilst they celebrate the opening of a new exhibition on Bees, the worker bees of @NML_Muse are still in dispute over a cost-of-living payment they need. #NMLPayUp #PCSonStrike

[Gillian Ashcroft-Smith @RollWithGillian]

@IAmJessPlant @johnpringdns Not helped by the assumption that disabled people cannot drive. When my adapted car was dropped off, I was asked who the wheelchair user was and who the driver was. The delivery person was surprised that the answer to both was me. He just assumed I couldn't drive. 🙈

[Gillian Ashcroft-Smith @RollWithGillian]

@MetroMayorSteve @CWUnews So glad to see that you believe workers' rights are important. I do hope you can support @PCSLiverpoolMus workers in their strike action over National Museums Liverpool withholding a one-off cost of living payment that could be transformative to workers' lives. 🙂

[Gillian Ashcroft-Smith @RollWithGillian]

@greg_jenner Wow! I wish I could do that with my walking stick! 😂

[Gillian Ashcroft-Smith @RollWithGillian]

It blows my mind how much the government is trying to force disabled/neuro-diverse/sick people back into work by taking away benefits, without actually making the changes to institutions and society that would allow them to work in the first place.
Cart before horse, much? 🙄

[Connor Scott-Gardner @ConnorScottG]

🧵 This week, a UK hospital announced that they'd now be using an app which lets disabled people notify them of any access needs in advance. A lot of people are not happy about this, and I'm going to try and explain why.

[Gillian Ashcroft-Smith @RollWithGillian]

YNWA.
Never forgotten.
❤️

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Our thoughts today, as always, are with all those affected by the tragedy at Hillsborough and the 97 fans who will never be forgotten.

You’ll Never Walk Alone.

[Gillian Ashcroft-Smith @RollWithGillian]

@UnisonMtBranch @PCS_Northwest @PCSLiverpoolMus @TUCNorthWest Thank you for all the support, it is very much appreciated. ❤️✊🏻

[LGBT+ Socialists @LGBTSocialists]

We are proud to stand in solidarity with @PCSLiverpoolMus members.

NML claim to support social justice. However, for the past 8 weeks, they have been opening a social history museum with staff picketing outside.

Details here:
https://t.co/4MYJrsFoeK

@pcs_union @PCS_Northwest

[Gillian Ashcroft-Smith @RollWithGillian]

@LGBTSocialists @PCSLiverpoolMus @pcs_union @PCS_Northwest Thank you for the support, it's very much appreciated. ❤️✊🏻

[Gillian Ashcroft-Smith @RollWithGillian]

"To acknowledge harm in action and continue on is oppression".

Oppression of disabled people is more common than you'd expect. I know of other cultural institutions that put their artistic integrity before progress.
Solidarity with @DisArtAlliance.
#NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

[Disabled Artists Alliance @DisArtAlliance]

We are an alliance of 281 disabled and allied arts professionals and 35 organisations.

This is our statement regarding our meeting with @The_Globe on Monday 18th March 2024.

[PCS Liverpool Museums @PCSLiverpoolMus]

Money, money, money 🎶

Our fantastically tuneful strikers have been outside @MuseumLiverpool for 8 weeks asking @NML_Muse for one thing: the money they’re rightfully owed.

Our current strike period is over but we’ll see you back on the picket lines the 4th of May.

#NMLPayUp