Dr Emily Pfefer

@QMUL_CRED PhD: UK Pay Taboo, Transparency & HE Gender/Ethnicity (In)Equality. AFHEA. Fulbrighter. @LSESocialPolicy MSc. Trade unionist. Own Opinions. #TalkPay

[Dr Jinnie Shin 🦀 @jinnieshinnie]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the way the @TheBMA leadership is treating staff is hypocritical and appalling. Over the past several years I've gotten to know many staff members and they are nothing short of brilliant.

Overworked and underpaid.
Sound familiar?

[GMB London Region @GMBLondonRegion]

✊Our members at @TheBMA are back out on the picket line and they won’t back down.

They’re striking for a better pay deal for themselves and their colleagues. It’s time for BMA management to listen & put an improved offer on the table.

Enough is enough. No more pay erosion.
#FairPayattheBMA

[GMB London Region @GMBLondonRegion]

Workers rent.

Young workers especially, paying over the odds, afraid to report mould or broken heating in case the landlord shows them the door.

That fear ends tomorrow.

The Renters' Rights Act is about to be in force. Watch now with @genrentuk and @GMBYoungLondon🏠

[Andrew Jordan @Andrew_Jordan_]

BMA staff are very grateful for the support and solidarity of BMA members in our fight for #FairPayatTheBMA - including from GP and resident doctors leaders in Wales.

Diolch!

@GMBLondonRegion

[GMB London Region @GMBLondonRegion]

The pressure is building.

170 Heathrow workers deserve answers, and GMB is making sure they get them.

Dnata Catering, do right by your workforce.

[Dr Emily Pfefer @EmPfefer]

I think it most Americans were forced to effectively generate a spreadsheet that tracks every single transaction they make in every financial account for the entire year in order to complete their taxes, there would be a REVOLT!

[Dr Emily Pfefer @EmPfefer]

Did you know: U.S. govt requires US citizens living abroad to report substantially the same detail on every single foreign account on 2 forms as part of annual “tax” compliance, although neither have any bearing on tax due and both with heavy fines for failing to file. Over this!

[Dr Emily Pfefer @EmPfefer]

Also - I wouldn’t have quite so many foreign financial accounts if the unfair U.S. citizenship-based taxation regime didn’t make it nearly impossible to invest as an American living abroad of normal means. All I have left is chasing random bits of bank interest!

[GMB London Region @GMBLondonRegion]

Our Branch Secretary Matt Saywell on LBC with Nick Ferrari this morning.

A below-inflation pay offer. BMA staff aren’t having it. 🎙️

#FairPayfortheBMA #MembersFirst

[GMB London Region @GMBLondonRegion]

BMA staff // GMB London Region members took to the streets today to demand fair pay and respect at work.

Workers who support doctors and medical professionals deserve better than falling wages.

We stand together for a fair deal. ✊
#FairPay #TradeUnion #MembersFirst

[PoliticsHome @politicshome]

There is fury among parliamentary staff after being given a smaller pay rise than their MP bosses

IPSA said the decision reflects the growing demands on MPs, including "higher levels of complex casework, and abuse and intimidation"

However, staff say the "mind-blowingly tone deaf" move fails to appreciate the pressures they are under

@lisagillmore, GMB's staff branch president, told PolHome: "The GMB MPs’ and Peers’ Staff Branch wants to see a fair pay deal for everyone working in Parliament, but struggle to understand why IPSA think the cost of living is 1.5 per cent lower for caseworkers, researchers and office managers than it is for MPs"

https://t.co/RtmrPfyFjs

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

The whole of society benefits from higher education. The reform of student loans should be to scrap them completely and fund tuition through general taxation.

Ministers could announce a U-turn on student loans next week
https://t.co/1LgCGKinQj

[Dr Emily Pfefer @EmPfefer]

Interesting analysis, although misses 1 important point of difference. At forgiveness under RAP (and other non-PSLF), it’s considered taxable income. This can generate a sizeable bill at once on $ the taxpayer never actually received. This is not the case in England.

[Times Higher Education @timeshighered]

Opinion: Although Trump has rolled back some of Biden’s programmes, his replacement student loan programme is still more progressive than England’s Plan 2 system, says Graeme Atherton #studentloans
https://t.co/zg6aoThIVu

[Times Higher Education @timeshighered]

Opinion: Although Trump has rolled back some of Biden’s programmes, his replacement student loan programme is still more progressive than England’s Plan 2 system, says Graeme Atherton #studentloans
https://t.co/zg6aoThIVu

[Rep. Don Beyer @RepDonBeyer]

Speaker Johnson is lying.

He knows that counting mail votes is not “magic” or “fraudulent,” it is following the law.

Echoing these lies shows how beholden Johnson is to the Liar In Chief, but the Speaker of the House should be above such awful behavior.

This is disgraceful.

[Paul Nowak @nowak_paul]

Is it surprising that a multi-millionaire, tax-averse Tory is defecting to Reform? https://t.co/gsNlccJs2Z

[Haider. @haider1]

Mathematician Joel David says current AI models are basically zero help for mathematics

They produce garbage answers, then argue they're correct when you point out the exact error

"if i were talking to a person who argued like that, i'd stop talking to them"

[Julia Willemyns @jujulemons]

A rare sentence that makes one laugh out loud and feel despondent all at once.

From @SamuelAlbanie’s great substack: https://t.co/zNJ69A0yY6

[GMB London Region @GMBLondonRegion]

Merry Christmas from everyone at GMB London Region! A special shoutout & thank you to all the key workers spending Christmas Day delivering essential services. 🎄

[Dr Emily Pfefer @EmPfefer]

Enjoying seeing/hearing the memories that my mom has been creating over the past year, in preparing her Remento book for us to keep. Great product!

[Remento @GetRemento]

And for everyone else, there's @GetRemento ☺️