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Ambulance staff have been left with no choice.
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BREAKING 🚨 | Financial Times journalists have negotiated through their union a £4,200 pay rise for the lowest paid staff.
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The government could give NHS staff a fair pay rise.
They just don't want to.
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Mum of a sick child confronts a government MP.
“The damage you’re doing to families like ourselves is terrible".
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In the public sector, average real pay has fallen by £185 per month in the past year.
📉 Nurses’ real pay fell by £1,800 over the last year
📉 Paramedics’ real pay fell by £2,400 over the last year
📉 Midwives’ real pay fell by £2,400 over the last year
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Workers are being paid less in real terms now than they were 14 years ago.
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NEW: Welsh Government & Wales TUC Open Letter on Rail Dispute
We've published a joint statement with calling on the UK Government to allow the rail companies to negotiate a deal that is fair and acceptable to workers.
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BREAKING 🚨 | Amazon workers vote to strike at Coventry depot in UK first.
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@RollsRoyce car workers win record pay deal.
This is a top notch pay deal for the @RollsRoyce workforce. @rollsroycecars are famous & iconic because of the workers’ craft & expertise. This is a testament to the organising efforts of the @unitetheunion reps at Goodwood.
@RollsRoyce car workers win record pay deal.
This is a top notch pay deal for the @RollsRoyce workforce. @rollsroycecars are famous & iconic because of the workers’ craft & expertise. This is a testament to the organising efforts of the @unitetheunion reps at Goodwood.
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NEW 🚨🚗 | Rolls Royce workers in Chichester have won a record 17.6% pay increase - the best pay deal in the site's history.
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NEWS 🚨 | Cleaners at Elon Musk's Twitter HQ have told the BBC they were sacked WITHOUT severance pay - just weeks before Christmas.
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NEW 🚨 | Majority of the British public support the nurses' strike.
Support: 64% - Oppose: 28%
(YouGov)
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The right to strike is a fundamental British liberty.
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Agreed.
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Schrödinger's NHS worker:
Simultaneously too important to strike, but not important enough to be paid properly.
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The Tories crashed the economy and are making working people pay the price.
The average nurse is taking home over £5,000 less in real terms than in 2010.
The government can resolve this by getting round the table with unions - it's time for fair pay for the public sector.
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We need:
✔️ Universal, high-quality childcare for all from the point paid maternity/parental leave ends.
✔️ A new deal for the childcare workforce, with a new sectoral min wage.
✔️ A new social partnership forum in childcare bringing together unions, government + employers.
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And staffing challenges in social care have worsened.
Children’s homes are losing workers to retail or hospitality – and the number of foster carers has fallen to its lowest point in years.
This means there sadly may not be enough places for children to live.
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Nurseries are:
❌ Losing staff to higher paid or more flexible jobs.
❌ Closing because they can't recruit/retain high-quality workforce.
❌ Over-reliant on apprentices, damaging the quality of education and safeguarding.
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NEW 🚨 | Latest OFSTED report reveals early years, childcare and social care are in CRISIS.
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“Strikes are a symptom not the cause.”
As I told this morning, we’ve had a race to the bottom on wages in this country, led by the government.
They have broken Britain. And it’s time they take action to get wages rising across the economy.
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Our letter in the FT today on how the government needs to grow up and stop treating industrial relations as a political football:
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BREAKING 🚨 | The High Court has GRANTED permission for our legal challenge against strike-breaking agency worker regulations.
This a major blow for the government's attempts to undermine the right to strike.
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If you work at White City and are yet to join → UTAW.tech/apple
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Yesterday we asked Apple to recognise its unionised staff at White City. We want pay to keep up with the cost of living, we want healthier shift work, we want less stress, less drain, less grind. If you work at White City and are yet to join → UTAW.tech/apple
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NEW 🚨🍏 | Staff at Apple’s White City store have unionised, and have made their request for voluntary recognition.
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Share this with someone working in the cold today.
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Nobody takes strike action lightly.
I’ll be taking questions today on why workers have been pushed to breaking point.
Tune in! 👇
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Why is everyone going on strike and is the government actually trying to do anything to solve it
The Mirror will be hosting a live discussion with union leaders TODAY at 5pm to discuss just that.
DM us any questions you may have for them.
youtube.com/watch?v=71DhMO
The Mirror will be hosting a live discussion with union leaders TODAY at 5pm to discuss just that.
DM us any questions you may have for them.
youtube.com/watch?v=71DhMO4
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Why is everyone going on strike and is the government actually trying to do anything to solve it❓
The Mirror will be hosting a live discussion with union leaders TODAY at 5pm to discuss just that.
DM us any questions you may have for them.
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The UK Conservative Government crashed the economy.
Not workers or their trade unions.
Remember that.
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Unions are the main reason why most people don’t have to work under conditions like this anymore.
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NEW🚨| Pay continues to plummet.
Across all three measures of inflation:
Pay is down -6.2% against RPI
Pay is down -3.9% against CPI
Pay is down -2.7% against CPIH
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A year ago today, a group of working class baristas organized the first unionized Starbucks store in the United States. In the span of one year, we went from ZERO unionized Starbucks stores to 270 and almost 7,000 union workers. #SBWU1YearStrong
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NEW 🚨 ☕️ | Starbucks workers in America have been organising for 1 year. In that time they've gone from:
Zero to 270 union stores.
Zero to almost 7,000 union workers.
Incredible.
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Working in freezing 
conditions this week? Your boss is required to:
Keep indoor temp above 16°C
Prevent risk of slips on ice if required to work outdoors
Provide appropriate warm clothing and PEE as above
tuc.org.uk/resource/too-h
conditions this week? Your boss is required to:
Keep indoor temp above 16°C
Prevent risk of slips on ice if required to work outdoors
Provide appropriate warm clothing and PEE as above
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