Teesworks, at the heart of the Teesside Freeport, has had vast amounts of public cash ploughed into it while enriching a small number of private developers associated with Tory politicians.

We urgently need a NAO investigation to uncover the full truth.
tribunemag.co.uk/2024/02/the-te…

For anything to run in Britain, there has to be an iron-cast guarantee that MPs’ mates have to get billions of pounds for unclear reasons and everything has to be expensive and difficult to normal people to guarantee this situation

General Secretary Dave Ward - brilliant on BBC Breakfast this morning.

OFCOM are completely unfit for purpose and if Royal Mail don’t believe in the universal service then they are in the wrong business.

The Horizon scandal — being dramatised in ITV's Mr Bates vs The Post Office — is one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history, and provides a stark warning about involving the private sector in our vital public institutions. tribunemag.co.uk/2022/02/behind…

Protect the right to strike!

I have just learned that Anas Abu Srour has been abducted by Israeli forces in the West Bank. Anas is the Executive Director of the Aida Youth Center in the Aida Refugee Camp. I met Anas when I visited Palestine last year, and I wanted to say something.

The centre supports…

A government who have stoked hate all this week collectively now shamefully keeping a university worker from her 6 year old daughter.

Enough. Is. Enough.

The RMT have delivered a historic victory today, overturning hundreds of planned ticket office closures.

This shows the power of organised, fighting labour mixed with a forward thinking campaign online and in our communities.

It sets the standard and should lift all workers.

This is brilliant.

UCU’s general secretary Jo Grady and RMT leader Mick Lynch sit down and discuss how unions can work together to beat employers and this government.

We need more of this.

Today is the big day at the end of our #RightToFood week.
Join a #HungerMarch today in Belfast - Liverpool - London. In Lpool meet 12 noon St George’s Hall. Join the fight for systemic change to end hunger in our communities.

Thanks to poor political choices, almost 1 in 5 UK households are now food insecure & more than half a million children fell below the poverty line in the last year. This is why I am supporting Right To Food Week 2023: ianbyrne.org/rtfweek2023 #RightToFood #RTFWeek2023

Mick Lynch from the RMT is spot on here - we are subsiding low pay through in work benefits. No company should be allowed to pay a wage that is so low workers can't live on it. #Peston

Hey Enough is Enough ! We released a song Inspired by your campaign, keep fighting the good fight ✊🏼

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Join us this Thursday as we march to 10 Downing Street to #SaveTicketOffices
📅 Thursday, 31st August
🕔 5:00 pm Assemble Department for Transport, 33 Horseferry Road, London, SW1P 4DR
🕠 5:30 pm March moves off
🕕 6:00 pm Rally opposite 10 Downing Street

Access to food is a human right, yet more than 11 million people in the UK are going hungry. Join the #RightToFood campaign’s week of action 18-23 Sept & a Hunger March in Liverpool Sat 23 Sept. Get involved at ianbyrne.org/rtfweek2023 #RTFWeek2023 #HungerMarchLiverpool

The #SaveTicketOffices consultation closes this Friday, September 1st.
Please have your say before it's too late.
bit.ly/saveticketoffi…

RMT to march on Parliament to save ticket offices

Railway workers will take the fight for the future of ticket offices to the doorstep of 10 Downing Street on 31 August.

#SaveTicketOffices

Wages have risen slower than inflation for 21 months in a row, the longest period of pay suppression since the Napoleonic wars.

'For the first 3 months of the year [Amazons revenue] was over £100 billion'

Reporting from the picket line at Rugeley. Solidarity with GMB Union members at Amazon who are on strike today in their fight for fair pay✊

Great to join Unite the union: join a union members at St Mungos today to mark 10 weeks of strike action — what an extraordinary display of collective resilience and solidarity.

It's high time for management to wake up and give these dedicated front-line workers the pay rise they deserve.