Lovely to hear from Mick Whelan GS at ASLEF at the annual lecture for the Thompson Foundation. The Foundation preserves the firm’s links with the Thompson family and ensures our unique, continued commitment to trade union members continues. #UnionStrong

🏛️ Today marks the start of a two day hearing as we represent UsdawUnion members at the Supreme Court in their case against Tesco’s controversial ‘fire and rehire’ strategy. The hearing spans today and tomorrow (April 23-24, 2024). #SupremeCourt #UsdawvTesco

Good luck everyone!

RISHI SUNAK HAS CALLED A GENERAL ELECTION FOR 4 JULY. It's the end of the Tories (and I feel fine).

Forced to work in the rain unnecessarily? Join a union.

A reminder that this is Conservative central office masquerading as an independent factcheck on Twitter tonight (they did the same thing in 2019).

❌ We NEVER want to see a sign like this ever again. ❌ The next government has the power to make that happen. They can end the need for food banks.

Industrial Law Soc are delighted to announce bookings for this year’s Annual Conference, to be held at St John’s College in Cambridge, on 13 & 14 September are now open. For a copy of the Conference Programme & details of how to sign up for it go to industriallawsociety.org.uk/event/ils-2024… #ukemplaw

Nigel Farage was rehabilitated by ITV when it paid him £1.5m to appear on I’m A Celeb. He is also joint-second for most appearances on BBC Question Time. When I say the *entire* media class is complicit in the normalisation of Islamophobic & anti-migrant rhetoric, I mean it.

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Our last panel of the day with Jawad, Kat Fletcher of GMB Campaigns North East, Yorkshire & Humber and Iain Birrell of Thompsons Solicitors on how unions and workers can benefit from the government's Employment Rights Bill, the New Deal for Working People #TUCNEYH2025

The POA are a fighting union and on behalf of 147 members at Gatwick we submitted an Employment Tribunal Claim on a pay deal that was imposed. I won’t go into detail as yet but we have won compensation of £5128 for each member after a unanimous decision of the ET against their