BREAKING NEWS: We’re excited to be working with GMB Union to launch a new campaigning organisation: Climate Jobs UK Together, we will push for worker voice and green energy jobs to be at the heart of the UK’s transition to a low carbon future. 🧵1/8

We want to hear from those involved with the culture sector to support our scrutiny of culture spending ahead of the Scottish Government Budget. Find out more and get involved ➡️ ow.ly/fwOw50WuLNE

Big 6 tomorrow for our boy! ❤️

Happy 6th Birthday to my amazing boy! I love seeing you learn and explore the world in your own unique way. We love you so much! ❤️

The Culture, Media and Sport Committee is leading a major events inquiry to examine challenges and opportunities for the sporting and cultural events industries. Organisers of major sporting and cultural events are asked to participate buff.ly/jf20LZJ

Lesley’s Hen 🤠

First night sleeping at the hut tonight. Beautiful evening for it☀️

Loving the stained glass and stars at night 😍

Good day of motorsport at British touring car championship today

First sleepover for the kids at the hut. Lovely evening watching the bats and cooking eclairs on the fire 🦇

Proud that @Bectu Prospect Union partnered with The Fabian Society on this important report highlighting the impact of ill health on freelancers and the self employed 👇 EXCLUSIVE: Self-employed workers without sick pay are 'illness away from financial ruin' mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

Good debate at Prospect's fringe event on the Employment Rights Bill at TUC Congress, with Alison McGovern MP, USDAW and the CIPD. We are clear that the ERB needs to be delivered in full.

Instead of resourcing and empowering public sector specialists as our front line in a risky world, they have been undermined 🗣️ Prospect President Eleanor Wade moving our motion at #TUC2025 on UK resilience and regulation.

"Without meaningful reform the creative industries risk becoming inaccessible to all but the most privileged" Bectu sector president Sean O'Malley addresses Trades Union Congress #TUC2025 speaking up for freelance workers in the creative industries 📢

“We must continue to shine a light on the harm Brexit has done to working people. We must stand up for our members and their interests. We must stand in solidarity with our friends across Europe.” Our motion on Europe is carried Trades Union Congress Congress More: prospect.org.uk/news/prospects…

Alice Black from our National Exec Committee and Bectu’s Scottish Live Events branch spoke at this year’s Trades Union Congress, seconding a NUJ motion condemning the killing of journalists in Gaza and highlighting the crucial role of journalists and media workers in war zones.

💼 Making Work Pay for the Self-Employed What a fantastic discussion at the SME4Labour & Community Union fringe during the #LabConf25 ! 👏 Huge thanks to our panelists: ✨Dom, Community Union ✨ Philippa Childs, Bectu ✨ Luke Raikes, The Fabian Society Key takeaway:

Proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with ⁦Musicians' Union⁩ and ⁦Naomi Pohl⁩ in their campaign on EU touring. It’s a campaign that is hugely important for ⁦Bectu⁩ members too and it’s time to turn words into hard actions #LabourConference25

Behind these statistics are thousands of stories of often young freelance workers who live in fear because of the power and impunity of powerful men in the industry 💬 Head of Bectu Philippa Childs ⬇️ theguardian.com/world/2025/sep…

Today we hosted a roundtable in Parliament to discuss what Bectu's Big Survey highlights about the state of the creative industries 🎦 We hope that this survey will form a baseline in which we can measure what progress has been made 🗣️ Philippa Childs