Spent some time last summer obsessing over Maria Macciochi with @SJRMercer and the lessons we can learn from her time in Naples in the 1960's.
Here's some thoughts for you
How should socialists seek to understand and organise women, especially women involved in reproductive labour?
@imgnwoods looks at the historical contrast between the Wages for Housework campaign and the work of communist Maria Macciocchi
Read it here π
https://t.co/RbA9dDmzMl
Band 2 theatres staff are still in good spirits, despite the chief executive of @LeedsHospitals failing to commit to anything at a meeting today.
Other band 2 staff have been rebanded and received back pay to acknowledge the work they do. Theatres staff deserve the same! β
BREAKING π° band 2 staff in theatres and maternity at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust are being rebanded, with ππ’π―π π²πππ«π¬' back pay!
Read more π https://t.co/9aT7Wt0VMi
πππ @unisontheunion win!
It was great to see theatre assistants and fluoroscopy assistants at Leeds Teaching Hospitals gather for the UNISON regrading launch meeting earlier today.
They've voted to form an organising committee and launch a petition to ask for the back pay that they deserve β
Feeling very fortunate to be at the global labour university alumni in conference in Delhi. Hearing a lot of interesting discussion from comrades all over the globe.
The arsonists last night destroyed a Citizens Advice Bureau.
For those outside the UK, that's a place where the British public, particularly low income or disadvantaged communities, get free legal advice and support.
Staff are devastated.
"We're protecting our community"
I wis I was surprised @BBCNews that you would talk about rival protests when racist thugs are attacking people because of the colour of their skins.
But you have consistently platformed the far right & peddle Islamophobia to dehumanise Muslims including Palestinians so own it.
@rsgexp So sorry to hear about this, you wrote a book that changed my life. You taught me so much about trade unionism as you have for countless others, thank you for the work youβve done youβve truly changed our movement x
Excellent article from our lad @richmg_ on housing financialisation in supported living- exploring the ways value is extracted from housing - exploiting some of the most vulnerable in society. https://t.co/LJR2oXIdBO
Marx: "The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint... etc., the more you saveβthe greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devourβyour capital. 1/2
πͺ§Wirral's Clinical Support Workers are out on strike again today and will be during every weekday of this month.
Many Trusts in the region have settled HCA disputes without strike action.
Why is @WUTHnhs any different? CSWs have been on strike SINCE AUGUST LAST YEAR π―