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[PCS Press @PCSPress]

. @pcs_union responds to the Chancellor's civil service recruitment freeze, saying shrinking an already-overstretched and under-resourced civil service will inevitably result in cuts to vital services #CPC23 #CPC2023 https://t.co/bbzZlo3QF3

[PCS Scot West MOD @Red_Clyde]

https://t.co/IHmiOpE0vU

[PCS Scot West MOD @Red_Clyde]

This is the guy who said young folk can’t afford a house cause they’re buying avocado on toast. Also said he worked from 6 am - 10.30pm, 7 days a week, when 19. Like you do.

[Financial Review @FinancialReview]

Gurner Group founder Tim Gurner tells the Financial Review Property Summit workers have become "arrogant" since COVID and "We've got to kill that attitude." https://t.co/lcX3CCxGuj

[PCS ScotGovt @pcs_scotgovt]

Scottish Government Group Pay Ballot Result. 96% accept 2 year pay deal.

It will be implemented in October's salary, with payments backdated to 01 April.

This 2 year deal also sees a contractual shortening of the working week to 35hr in Oct 24. @pcs_union @PCS_Scotland

[The Secret DJ. @SecretDJBook]

Right now a thousand Tories are starting up concrete repair and construction 'solutions' and are becoming overnight experts in fixing educational edifices.

You can practically hear them scuttling about.

Add a couple of zeroes on the end of all the invoices.

Wallop.

[Civil Service World @CSWnews]

Options being explored include introducing a new requirement for officials to work a set number of days a week in their main office
https://t.co/9ByC0cjahx

[Gregor Gall @leftacademic]

https://t.co/EXovRdmn1s

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

A former top civil servant has blamed Rishi Sunak for failing to fund school rebuilding while he was Chancellor.

[Paul Nowak @nowak_paul]

More here: Seven days a week, £6 an hour — life on board P&O Ferries

https://t.co/h7xEeR6kWC

[Michael Walsh @thatbloodyMikey]

We raised your Bill from £40 a month to £200 a Month.
Great news! Now its only £198 a month!

[UNISON Scotland @unisonscot]

School staff vote to strike in 24 councils in Scotland in local government pay dispute

This is UNISON’s strongest ever strike mandate in local government, which shows the level of anger felt by staff. #PayUpForCouncilStaff

https://t.co/8OPHugaX3e

[Paul Nowak @nowak_paul]

The government's attack on the right to strike continues.

They are now consulting (ahem...) on the so called 'reasonable steps' unions should take to encourage workers to cross their own picket lines.

Union busting - pure and simple.

https://t.co/Hzd54AK7GU

[Matt Zarb-Cousin @mattzarb]

Wages have fallen 0.6% when inflation adjusted. So people have less money in real terms. This headline is propaganda

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Can Britain afford a £15 an hour minimum wage? With me in the studio to discuss this are an £84,000 a year Tory MP, a £150,000 a year rightwing journalist and a £4,000,000 a year chief executive.

[Civil Service World @CSWnews]

In case you missed it, the latest civil service pay stats

https://t.co/kw2QNxB1zw

[Paul Nowak @nowak_paul]

This isn’t just some technical victory. It means workers can take industrial action & know their employers can’t undermine that action by (ab)using agency workers to break the strike.

These regulations were wrong and unworkable just as the Strikes act is wrong and unworkable.

[Danny Baker @prodnose]

The guitar solo in this is, for me, the greatest. Robbie Robertson seemed to personify The Band, the most smart and adult of all bands when that wasn't always the mode.
"Then my horse Jethro he went mad and I can't ever remember things being that bad."
https://t.co/JMQFSl3u2f

[Paul Nowak @nowak_paul]

Growing our movement is absolutely vital. This blog by ⁦@The_TUC⁩ colleague ⁦@RoperCarl⁩ sets out the challenges and some grounds for - realistic - optimism, if we learn lessons from our organising successes. https://t.co/wKcQnsDh5x

[Christopher Farrelly @ChrisFarrelly]

If you believe a media that tells you that it's wrong for a Doctor, Nurse, Rail Worker, teacher to get a pay rise but it's OK that a hereditary billionaire, who avoided inheritance tax to get a 45% pay rise from £86m to £125m, then you are part of the problem.

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Six per cent for essential public sector workers. 45% for King Charles. And people are meant to accept that? https://t.co/j0ySpCQnsn