Unison: This will be the first ever National Delegate Conference under a left General Secretary. Andrea Egan took office on 22 January. How has the union changed, and what is still to win?
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Unison union members have saved a dementia care service in Lambeth. Industrial action forced the council to pause plans to close its adult daycare centre on the Central Hill estate. The councilโs plans would have resulted in the loss of ten jobs.
https://t.co/g5jFWyRJPe
The QMUL UCU HE is Shrinking websiteโs latest update, 6 June, shows another almost 1,000 jobs are on the line at six universities.
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The headline finding from Alan Milburnโs report on young people and work is that over a million people aged 16-24 are โNEETsโ โย not in education, employment or training. In the next five years, that could rise to one in six young people.
https://t.co/nWJ7orhyYB
GKN Aerospace workers in Filton, near Bristol, struck from 26 May to 8 June to oppose falling pay. GKN has offered workers a below-inflation increase of 3.3%, up from an initial offer of 3%.
https://t.co/aHgbMPhHsl
New missile exchanges between Iran and Israel on 7-8 June have stopped for now, and an unstable and occasionally broken US-Iran ceasefire remains in place. Both sides are attempting to squeeze some advantage from the bloody mess created by the war.
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Trade unions are pushing for the Northern Ireland Executive to agree the Good Jobs Bill, which seeks to align with or improve workersโ rights in Great Britain and the 26 counties.
https://t.co/rfRlcJ8Brg
The Makerfield by-election has exposed deepening problems in Socialist Workerโs approach to fighting Reform UK. SW published an editorial entitled โClass struggle, not lesser-evil politicsโ, refusing to back Andy Burnham against Reform.
https://t.co/ZrPBofaAgX
While the regime in Iran is still standing, with power shifted towards its military-wing, the Islamic Guards, the economy is in very serious crisis.
https://t.co/WcOQvcgK2H
A tragic knife attack on a man in Belfast on Monday 8 June 2026 is being exploited by the global far-right and loyalist paramilitaries to fuel racist pogroms against migrants in the North of Ireland.
https://t.co/ErsMlDWm3A
Tubeworker: All but one line has been, variously, suspended or running with severe delays. We need to name further strikes as soon as possible. Those strikes must escalate beyond the two-day strikes we've held so far.
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Nigel Farage, Rupert Lowe, J D Vance, and Elon Musk are seizing on the 3 December 2025 death of Henry Nowak, and the 14 May to 1 June trial of his killer Vickrum Digwa, to whip up race-hate.
https://t.co/tLBVzRO5Qx
๐ฒ *The Hope Cycle*
Tareq Al-Qazzaz, originally from Gaza but now living in London, is cycling over 1,000 miles around England to raise money for the Gaza Support Network and Standing Together.
๐ท Donate here: https://t.co/WnUub5uySI
The top ten per cent in Britain own 43% of all wealth, according to the latest figures from the Equality Trust.
The top 0.1% in the UK own 9%, double their share in the early Thatcher years.
https://t.co/vF72KkyLmI
Ideas for Freedom, a weekend of discussion, debate, and education, will take place this year on 21-22 November at Camden School for Girls, Sandall Rd, London NW5 2DB.
Tickets are now available at https://t.co/iYXBR93ajd