Solomon Hughes

Journalist, Private Eye magazine. Also available @solomonhughes.bsky.social

[Solomon Hughes @SolHughesWriter]

@spiralunbound In fairness to Unison, they pushed hard against Mahmood's plans and won the carve out for Care Workers. What imo the unions dont do rn so much , which the CIO did , is have cross-union campaigns aimed at members

[Solomon Hughes @SolHughesWriter]

(1)The USA was built on waves of migration, so US bosses often used migrant workers to keep wages lower, break strikes etc. Over decades there were two Union responses, Samuel Gompers anti migrant AFL and the pro-migrant CIO :It was the CIO that raised wages most....

[Solomon Hughes @SolHughesWriter]

(7) The Unison argument, the old CIO argument is wiser -recruiting migrant workers to unions, giving migrant workers full rights, better pay for migrant workers is the only way to ensure conditions for non migrant workers.

[Solomon Hughes @SolHughesWriter]

(6)Boris & Shabana Mahmood have already made it clear that they will encourage anti-migrant noises to divide workers, but will then let employers employ many migrant workers, exploiting the division to hold back wages. Its an obvious trap...

[Solomon Hughes @SolHughesWriter]

@Jonathan_Hinder But you back Mahmood's plan, which keep migrant workers on reduced rights for longer , dependent on the whims of their employer - what could be more "neoliberal" than that? Creating a larger pool of '2nd class' workers to keep wages low is an employers charter, not a workers one

[Huda Ammori @HudaAmmori]

My interview in today's Observer explaining why we will never back down.

Direct action against Elbit is about saving lives, and the 4,000 people arrested for holding signs are not just showing their support for Palestine but are also defying the complete erosion of free speech.

[Tom Hatfield @WordMercenary]

Funny, I thought the voters in Sheffield were supposed to decide

[Neil Duncan-Jordan MP @NeilForPoole]

Ministers have listened and introduced a big exception for care workers on "Earned Settlement".

But what’s unfair and un-British for one set of workers is unfair for others too.

People just days away from applying for settlement are now in limbo.

Our campaign continues.

[Solomon Hughes @SolHughesWriter]

@bat020 100% - 'no true representative of the capitalist class would try assert dominance by launching and losing a ridiculous war' is a wacky argument, given, er 100s of years og history

[Solomon Hughes @SolHughesWriter]

@DavidKlion Capitalists and their representatives screw up ,overreach and lose battles all the time - but do so in a capitalist (imperialist) way- trying to assert an uncertain economic power, dominance by displays of military might, then losing is hardly uncommon.

[Fred Dimbleby @freddimbleby]

Has the local Labour Party broken with the national party’s line on this?

My understanding is the Sheffield greens have not rejected the “zionism is racism” policy - one of the requirements of continued cooperation from Labour HQ

[Simon Hedges @Orwell_Fan]

Jonathan Ashworth and Senior Labour figures have delivered a crushing victory for the Democrats in 2026 by not jetting to the US and sharing campaign tips.

[Solomon Hughes @SolHughesWriter]

@JohnSmithdfpi Mahmood's proposal isn't that these workers should go, its that they should stay , but not get full employment rights until they've worked 10 years -until then their employer can have them deported if they complain-
that will depress pay + conditions even more;

[Solomon Hughes @SolHughesWriter]

(1)Shabana Mahmood says she did her crack down on migrants rights "because I am a Labour politician". The scheme is : make 100k skilled workers like butchers wait 10 years for full employment rights. For 10 years, their employer can have them deported, a recipe for exploitation..

[Solomon Hughes @SolHughesWriter]

@JohnSmithdfpi Its not my example , its The Guardian's, which I assume they have been briefed by the Home Office. why is it a bad example? Meat processing is a vital job, and if meat processing firms, abbatoirs etc get more control of their migrant workers, conditions, pay will fall for all

[Solomon Hughes @SolHughesWriter]

@JoeRTooting No, they have kept it , but reduced it from 15 years to 10, and introduced an exception for existing care workers. The Unions and backbench MPs made a difference- the numbers affected has dropped from 799k to 517k, but it is still a very serious attack on Workers Rights