The worst water companies must lose their licences when they pollute and profit. The ex-Tory government didn't cancel a single water licence, despite 6000 illegal spills in 2022/23. To get serious, that's what we must do - and it's already in the law. On LBC👇

A very timely & important blog piece from Nicola Countouris, Prof Keith Ewing & Lord John Hendy KC: A new ‘single status of worker’ definition must be an essential part of The Labour Party’s plan: ier.org.uk/comments/a-new… #TUC2024 #TUC24

It would indeed be very hard to deliver on various 'first 100 days' pledges (e.g. on day 1 rights, ZHC, but even TU recognition, and more... ) without a new, and comprehensive, 'single worker status' definition.

I’ll be talking to Jacob Rees-Mogg - yes - about Elliott Management and other vulture funds trying to take control of Thames Water 💧 at 8.40pm on GB News amp.theguardian.com/business/nils-…

I spoke about @ThamesWater with Jacob Rees-Mogg (yes) saying: 🤑we mustn't bail out banks, or let vulture capitalists get rich quick from our water 💩privatisation will cost us £12.5bn in the next 5 years 🗳️water needs to be democratic w/ directors elected by staff + billpayers

There MUST not be a shareholder bailout of Thames Water Ewan McGaughey tells Jacob Rees-Mogg. The firm wants to put up bills by 44%, but have paid £158 million in dividends to shareholders this year and had 350 pollutant incidents in 2023. GB News | King's College London

Communities around England are sick and tired of private water companies taking us for their ATM. We went to Parliament to speak with MPs about the water crisis. What a super response from MPs. Thank you Clive Lewis MP for hosting us.

For those yet to move over to the other place, I've put out my thread on the USDAW v Tesco judgment on there. Why not take a look (and perhaps join us)? bsky.app/profile/jasonb…

In Southend East and Rochford, we know very well that it's time to clean up our coastlines and remove licences from failing water companies - We Own It

My new paper: "ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY: A BRIEF HISTORY AND THE LAWS THAT MAKE IT". Free to download from the Cambridge Centre for Business Research Working Papers, and soon in an Oxford Uni Press Handbook on Law and Democracy. Let me know what you think!👇 jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/upl…

I spoke with Jacob Rees-Mogg (yep!) about vulture hedge funds trying to get rich quick from @ThamesWater billpayers. ... and explained why the banks and vulture funds can and should get nothing, and privatisation has completely failed. 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=Wo0ZYN…

Great by Windrush WASP, Peter Hammond + Ashley Smith: “the regulator has failed to provide key data on how much shareholders in water firms have paid in upgrading infrastructure since privatisation, warning that billpayers have footed the bulk of the bill.” theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Bang on worker rights by Michael Ford in the FT. It's not enough to consult. "If you don’t address worker status and how intermediaries and other methods are used to take people outside the protection... you risk undermining the whole edifice". ft.com/content/a7826c…

The 🇪🇺 #PlatformWork Directive: What’s new, what’s missing, what’s next? .@SilviaRainone and I teamed up again to examine the PWD main innovations, assess its contribution to the EU acquis & identify its main weaknesses. 🔗 new ETUI - European Trade Union Institute policy brief: etui.org/publications/e…

The #PlatformWork Directive is on the verge of final adoption! In this new ETUI - European Trade Union Institute policy brief, written with Antonio Aloisi, we discuss how the Directive breaks crucial taboos 👉bit.ly/3B4YUy9. Now is the time to ensure that its implementation lives up to expectations.

Speaking at today’s parliamentary launch of Institute of Employment Rights report on Pay Review Bodies with author Dr Andrew Moretta (prev. Law & Social Justice PhD student), Fran Heathcote gen sec PCS Union Daniel Kebede gen sec National Education Union Gawain Little gen sec General Federation of Trade Unions and POA gen sec Steve Gillan.

NEW: BlackRock and other asset managers are profiting off of every aspect of your life. They claim they’re just passive investors, but they're concentrating money and power in the hands of a few ultra-rich people. It's not a conspiracy — it's an open restructuring of society.

In the world's largest car market, China (25.8m cars sold in China 2023, v. 15.4m in the US, 12.8m in Europe), EVs are now 51% of all cars sold Watch demand for oil crash by 2030, driven by the electrification of transport + renewables and BESS getting insanely cheap #climate