💰BREAKING:
Down from £100bn, the cost of nationalisation is now... £1bn.
By the way, the ownership model that "doesn't work" in Paris just made the Seine swimmable again after 100 years.
We encourage Steve Reed to take a dip in the Thames.
📢 NEW REPORT:
A year-long analysis of BBC coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza reveals a pattern of bias, double standards & silencing of Palestinian voices.
Despite 34x more Palestinian deaths, Israeli fatalities received 33x more coverage per death.
DOWNLOAD FULL REPORT HERE
📄 https://t.co/JlZX4uSpB1
#BBCBias #Gaza @BBCNews
Energy bills up 6.4% — while network providers raked in £4 billion in “excess” profits over four years.
Water bills up 26% — while firms paid £78 billion in dividends since privatisation & racked up £64 billion in debt.
End this scam. Bring water & energy into public ownership.
🚨Boycott Coca Cola and all its brands
Coca Cola operates in illegal Israeli settlements on stolen Palestinian land. Keep Coca-Cola and its brands such as Schweppes, Sprite, Innocent, Smart Water and Costa Coffee, out of your basket until it ends complicity in Israel's crimes.
This is a seminal moment: a Labour government cutting disability benefits. Not just continuing Tory levels. Cutting.
This comes after a week of speculation, itself an act of cruelty by a government toying with people’s dignity.
These cuts are disgraceful - and will cost lives.
Solidarity with workers at the Uni of Amsterdam on strike for the fourth day today to defend their right to protest & to demand an end to their uni’s complicity in genocide through its collaborations with Israeli institutions. Solidarity toolkit here https://t.co/z5dudQhfcp @ucu
The Palestinian BDS National Committee, the largest Palestinian coalition leading the global BDS movement, endorses the organic boycott campaigns against @CocaCola to pressure the company to end its complicity in Israel’s illegal occupation, apartheid and genocide. #BoycottCoke
ANNOUNCING 🍉 The Watermelon Index, a tool for worker-led resistance against the genocide in Palestine.
Explore our database of over 400 complicit companies and the campaigns against them: https://t.co/HaecAdDDI0
Yesterday in the High Court, the UK's complicity in atrocity crimes in Gaza was exposed. The key points:
1/ In response to questioning, the government was forced to admit that “Israel is not committed to complying with international humanitarian law” by its own assessment
We have received some copies of West Midlands @unisontheunion 2025 activist training programmes brochure. We think the more you make use of your union, the more you get out of it and are able to give. @unisonlearning
‘Fake news’, forgeries & the fall of the first Labour government
Amidst 'Red Scare’ rumours & a forged Soviet letter, the 1924 general election took place 100 years ago #OTD
Find out more about the Zinoviev Letter, Britain & Russia at https://t.co/VLmedlEtDr
Report from @theipaper on the doubling of six-figure salaries in UKHE in the past 4 years: https://t.co/BhJKJ4yRbd
Left: @QMUL staff on over 100,000 per year in 2023
Right: @QMUL staff on over 100,000 per year in 2019
But the budget for Teaching Associates is the 'problem'...
Furious NHS workers showed out in force for a protest which saw close to 200 cleaners, porters and housekeepers march through Colchester. @UNISONEastern
https://t.co/OzcdBWWZ1i
New catalogue online!
Archives of the Cumberland Miners' Association / NUM Cumberland Area, 1887-1985, at https://t.co/V40OQqQ74e
Includes executive & branch minutes, records about wages, working conditions, welfare & health
7 docs digitised @ https://t.co/9dwpvksILX
🚨 NATIONAL DEMO - SATURDAY 26/10. Join UNISON in London to stand up against Tommy Robinson and his politics of hate and division.
Let's march in UNISON and send a clear message opposing the far-right, racism and hate on 26 October ⬇️⬇️⬇️
https://t.co/J0Xez7X3pw
Our report on the @uniofwarwick complicity in genocide, the arms trade and apartheid in Occupied Palestine is now available online at the following link: https://t.co/SPT9VGpTeP
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We are calling our members to check your details ahead of the IAB before Friday and have your say on the @UNISONinHE’s joint pay claim in restoring lost HE pay, closing gender pay gap, and for a 35-hour working week. https://t.co/3TSotp9aPV
💻 Have you taken part in the higher education online consultation yet? It only takes a few seconds to have your say on your pay. Check your emails for further information. It's time to demand the pay you deserve.
#HEPay2024@UNISONinHE