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Paul Nowak

@nowak_paul

2 years

Life is different if you don’t depend on our NHS or state schools. If you don’t need to travel by train or bus to get to work. If you swish through airports in private lounges. If you’ve never worried about losing your job, or paying the rent. Their Britain isn’t broken. Ours is.

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For the avoidance of doubt. If the govt attacks the right to strike, the @The_TUC will resist them all the way. In Parliament. In the courts. And I have no doubt our unions & members will continue to win ballots & exercise what is an internationally recognised, fundamental right.

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Today the PM told unions ‘The government’s door is always open... to have constructive two-way dialogue... & see what we can all do to find a resolution to these strikes’ I’ll take you at your word @RishiSunak - when can we meet to talk about fair pay for public sector workers?

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Little evidence of pay restraint in Britain’s boardrooms, but you won’t hear the PM and his cabinet bemoaning the salaries of CEO’s. Apparently it’s just paramedics, physios, midwives, civil servants, teachers, firefighters and all the rest who should tighten their belts. 🤷‍♂️ 🙄

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2 years

Believe paramedics, firefighters, rail workers & many more should be able to exercise their fundamental right to strike? Then help us defend that right. Join a union. Get active. Support workers who take the difficult decision to strike. Help us beat this rotten attack on workers

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@nowak_paul

2 years

Modern Britain: sack 786 seafarers without notice, consultation or decency. Admit you knowingly broke the law. Don’t resign. Don’t get sacked. Don’t get fined. Don’t get prosecuted. Do share a 15m bonus pot.

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2 years

Respect and solidarity to every @GMB_union @unisontheunion @unitetheunion ambulance worker taking strike action today. Ignore the government’s slurs. The British public are on your side - and know you are fighting for our NHS as well as fair pay 👏✊🏼 #ambulancestrike

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11 months

Confirmation of what we always suspected. The government ignored Covid safety warnings in schools because they didn’t “want to give an inch to unions”. At a time of national crisis the Tories put politics and their own vanity before pupils, teachers & their families.

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2 years

What a surprise…Government solves NHS crisis of it’s own making, by ramping up the use of the private sector providers. Someone is benefiting from the government’s neglect of the NHS, but it’s not patients or taxpayers 😠 😡

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A real man of the people… Privately educated son of a stockbroker Former City trader Trump hanger-on Highest earning MP - pocketing over £100k a month on top of the job he was actually elected to do. He’s not a ‘decent bloke’, he’s a shyster.

Nigel Farage revealed to be UK’s highest-earning MP

Reform UK leader banked £1.2m from role as presenter on GB News and payments from social media

www.theguardian.com

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2 years

An absolute sea of pink for the ⁦ @CWUnews ⁩ rally to support our posties. Incredible turn out. #solidarity

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@nowak_paul

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It’s a strange sort of ‘patriot’ that squirrels away their money in an offshore tax haven, rather than pay the fair taxes which fund our schools, hospitals, roads, Police & fire services, local councils and all the other basic building blocks of a decent society.

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@nowak_paul

2 years

My dad worked thick end of 50 years as a welder & builder. I suspect his working life was slightly harder than our Chancellor’s. Love multi-millionaire politicians telling supermarket workers, teachers, manual workers etc that a few more years hard graft is nowt to worry about 😖

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@nowak_paul

2 years

Message to workers - ‘Important we all tighten our belts - real terms pay cuts all round’ Message to company CEO’s -‘Crack on lads, how does 39% pay increase sound? £3.4m do you?’ And shareholders - ‘Enjoy your 38% dividend boost’. This isn’t a cost of living crisis for everyone.

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1 year

‘Sorry, not sorry’. As classy a resignation statement as we might have expected. Beyond the non-apology, spare a thought for the civil servants who’ve had to put up with Dominic Raab’s unique brand of ‘direct oversight’ for so long.

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@nowak_paul

2 years

Yesterday the government rushed their unfair, anti democratic anti strike bill through the House of Commons. Join our campaign to protect the right to strike! Sign the petition! Support a picket line! Lobby your MP! ✊🏼👍🏼

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6 years

Frank Field is my MP. He was wrong to campaign for Brexit in direct opposition to party policy & interests of working people. Wrong about writing for The Sun. And he’s wrong about walking away from Labour whip. Only people this serves & strengthens is Theresa May’s government

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2 years

The nonsense about bringing back inches, pounds & ounces, is precursor to the real Brexit roll-back the Conservative right have always wanted: curbs on excessive working hours, employment rights, laws that keep us safe at work and so much more. The ‘red-tape’ that protects us all

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2 years

Do you know what causes real harm in our #NHS day in, day out? 133,00 staff vacancies. Our NHS is suffering long term neglect, and this government doesn’t have the answer.

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@nowak_paul

2 years

A big thanks to every @The_TUC union for giving me the privilege of leading the TUC when @FrancesOGrady steps down at the end of the year. Working people need a strong, diverse, vibrant trade movement that can win in workplace and beyond, and that will be my 💯 % focus

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@The_TUC

2 years

BREAKING 🚨 | Paul Nowak ( @Nowak_Paul ) will be the next General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress.

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1 year

I started my working life in Asda. Some wonderful people worked there. Some crappy people ran the place. Not much seems to have changed. If you work there - please, join the @GMB_union Only a strong union can fight a boss who wants to impose arbitrary pay cuts ✊🏼

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But the right wing press like to tell us the real problem in Britain’s workplaces is over-mighty unions and pesky workers wanting real terms pay rises. Do you think the average boss is worth 120x more than you or your work mates? Nah, neither do I.

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“The average pay of a CEO of a FTSE 100 is now how many times the annual pay of a UK worker?” @mrjamesob ponders the pay gap between workers and company bosses.

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5 years

@CarolineFlintMP The @The_TUC is very clear. The government has NOT provided legally binding guarantees on employment rights. This is a bad deal - for rights and for jobs. No MP should support it.

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@nowak_paul

1 year

I’m relieved the PM has freed us from the tyranny of the fictitious 7 bins, compulsory veganism & mandatory car sharing. Less pleased that his environmental flip-floppery will cost us billions in investment & risk hundreds of thousands of jobs.

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6 months

Wages no higher in real terms than they were in 2008. Insecure, low paid work hard wired into the economy. Household debt spiralling. Good employers undercut by zero hours cowboys. Spare me the ‘unintended consequences’ of decent employment laws brigade & their outriders.

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10 months

Ambulance workers. Teachers. Rail workers. Border force staff. Not the ‘enemy within’ of Tory folklore, but decent, hardworking people the government wants to punish for daring to take strike action. We are determined to defend their right to strike.

Ambulance worker who couldn't get to emergency for 3 hours says they must strike

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said the “right to strike has to be balanced with the right of the British public to be able to go about their lives without suffering completely undue disruption”

www.mirror.co.uk

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1 year

The House of Lords votes 232-201 to ensure key workers can’t be sacked for exercising their fundamental right to strike. Common sense prevails. Let’s hope the government listens. No one should ever lose their job for taking strike action. 👍🏼✊🏼

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4 years

I’ll declare an interest as a lifelong Evertonian...but you have to be living in some special sort of ivory tower to prefer continued dereliction over plans to inject life and cash into an historic & neglected part of our city #COYB #EVERTONFC #NSNO

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@nowak_paul

1 year

Striking @unisontheunion members on the Wirral are heading back into work to deal with a serious traffic accident This is what Ministers who want to take away right to strike from NHS & other key workers will never understand. Our members ARE the NHS & their commitment is 💯

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1 year

Due to a serious traffic incident in the area, many CSWs on the Wirral picket have immediately returned to work to help. We dispersed our picket and members are returning home to be on-call to help. Our thoughts are with everyone impacted by this terrible incident.

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11 months

@SamCoatesSky A millionaire telling a billionaire people shouldn’t be afraid of failing. To be fair, when it comes to failure our PM knows what he’s talking about 🙄

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@nowak_paul

2 years

Less than half the Conservative Party - total membership 0.0025% of UK population - cast their votes for our new Prime Minister. And they were allowed to vote online, something which no worker considering industrial action for a decent pay rise can…

Frances O'Grady

@FrancesOGrady

2 years

Liz Truss got 47% of eligible Tory members She wouldn't meet the threshold that ministers set for union members voting on strike action

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11 months

I guess we now know why the PM didn’t want unions at his tech bros love-in. While millions of families struggle, our multi-millionaire PM tells his billionaire buddy that people should be willing to give up security of a regular pay check. TBF our PM isn’t afraid of failing…

Chris Smyth

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11 months

Sunak tells Musk he wants people to be more willing to give up "the security of a regular paycheck and be comfortable with failing" to start up companies

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1 year

‘I am cancelling the rest of the HS2 project and in its place are yet more empty promises and meaningless non-commitments’. I think that’s what the PM has just said.

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@nowak_paul

1 year

Even a modest wealth tax would raise £10bn that could help repair and renew our public services and underpin investment in a coherent jobs focussed industrial strategy.

‘Modest’ wealth tax could raise more than £10bn for public services, says TUC

Union body raises idea of levy on UK’s richest 140,000 people as it calls for ‘national conversation’ on issue

www.theguardian.com

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2 years

Tomorrow up to 500k public service workers will take strike action for a decent pay rise. We’ll go to No 10 with over 1/4m signatures in defence of the right to strike. And we’ll rally up & down the country for public services, decent pay & to protect the #RightToStrike ✊🏼👏

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@nowak_paul

2 years

‘All EU red-tape will be consigned to history’. Translation: ‘Basic rights you take for granted like paid holidays, not being discriminated against and being treated equally if you’re a part-timer, will be consigned to history’.

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2 years

Let’s be honest, who hasn’t had to pay back the odd £4.8m to HMRC in back taxes and penalties? 🙋‍♂️

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2 years

Nearly a year ago, 786 seafarers working for P & O were sacked without notice & without consultation. Their employer knew it was acting unlawfully but didn’t care, because this government will NEVER stand up to bad bosses. We should never forget who’s side this government is on!

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2 years

Unlike 30p Lee, I don’t feel comfortable sharing Katy’s picture, and I don’t know her, so my advice is general rather than to her specifically. If you’ve got a boss like this…Join.a. union. Quick. The fella’s a tribunal case waiting to happen.

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1 month

Compare and contrast. Two years of political meddling & incompetence = rail strikes. Six weeks of a serious government that cares about public transport & is prepared to negotiate = an offer being recommended to members. Well done @ASLEFunion & @LouHaigh

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🚨BREAKING!🚨 Today the Department for Transport and @ASLEFunion agreed a deal to recommend to members and end the strikes. I promised we’d move fast and fix things and that is what we’ve done.

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1 year

‘There are activist civil servants, mobilised by the @FDA_union ’ Translation: ‘There are union members who raised concerns about their bullying secretary of state’ Truly a politician who should know a ‘low bar’ when he sees one. 🙄

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@nowak_paul

1 year

Help us protect the right to strike. Rally outside Parliament tonight at 6pm tonight, and call on government to reject this spiteful attack on a fundamental right.

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@SkyNews

1 year

TUC general secretary @Nowak_Paul says there is "no public appetite at all" to see nurses, teachers and rail workers sacked for exercising their right to strike, which he describes as a "fundamental British liberty". Live: 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602 and YT

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1 year

Good to hear @AngelaRayner reiterate Labour’s commitment to deliver a New Deal for Workers. A ban on fire & rehire Ending exploitative zero hour contracts Day one employment rights New collective rights for unions & scrapping anti-union legislation. Can’t come soon enough.

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@nowak_paul

6 years

@SamWhyte My mate’s mum did us melon for starters when I went round for tea 😮When I asked my mum if we could have starters when he came to ours she gave us a Mars Bar.

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10 months

Man City have over 100 FFP charges against them - a decade of potential financial doping. But somehow the Premier League have managed to rush through the case against Everton and award a record sanction. Level playing field?

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5 months

Rail in public ownership… Good for passengers, taxpayers, UK economy, rail staff, the environment. Not so good for the shareholders who’ve extracted profit from our railways for decades but can’t run trains on time. Works for me.👏👏 ⁦ @LouHaigh ⁩

Labour promises rail nationalisation within five years of coming to power

Party pledges to bring all passenger rail – but not rolling stock – into public ownership as contracts with train operators expire

www.theguardian.com

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Before breaking out the world’s smallest violin for parents who will now have to pay VAT to send their kids to Eton it’s worth noting: Annual cost of Eton school fees: £53k Average UK salary on which you pay tax, and cloth, feed, house and entertain your family: £35k

The Times and The Sunday Times

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🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Eton College will pass on the full 20% of VAT to parents when it is introduced on school fees from January, it has announced

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4 years

My lad is one of those at @DWP going to work every day to make sure people get the support they need. I hope when all this is over the govt reflects on immense efforts of the whole public sector workforce. Times like this show why properly funded public services are so vital.

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2 years

Public service workers deserve a fair pay deal from this government. It's time Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt came out of hiding, got round the negotiating table and delivered on fair pay.

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2 years

An improved agreement, and a hard fought for agreement. The government thought they’d turn public opinion against our rail workers, but that didn’t happen - well done everyone at the @RMTunion 👍🏼👏✊🏼

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🚨| BREAKING @RMTunion Network Rail members overwhelmingly vote to accept improved offer Rail union RMT announced today that its 20,000 members have voted to accept a new and improved offer covering pay, jobs and conditions by a margin of three to one.

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1 year

Every teachers’ and headteachers’ union has now rejected the government’s miserable pay offer. Time for government to stop mucking round and get into meaningful talks to deliver a fair pay rise. Oh, and what goes for teachers goes for civil servants as well!!!

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We are heading to Glasgow for our Annual Conference this weekend. Workload, pay, working hours, pupil behaviour, inspection, SEN provision & much more is on the agenda. #nasuwt23

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6 months

Could you get by on minimum wage & a zero hours contact? Scared to take a day off ill because you don’t get sick pay. Living in fear that your boss could sack you without notice or reason. If you think the world of work can be better, @AngelaRayner agrees with you and so do I.

Jim Pickard 🐋

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Angela Rayner has pushed back against Lord Peter Mandelson after the Labour peer criticised her package of employment reforms, likening his complaints to the “squealing” by business over the introduction of the minimum wage in 1997

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2 years

On Wednesday I was confirmed as the @The_TUC general secretary designate, taking over the reins from my mate and comrade @FrancesOGrady in January. Tough times ahead for our unions and their members, but working together and fighting together we can, and will, WIN for workers

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Let’s work together. Let’s fight together. Let’s win together. - @Nowak_Paul to #TUC22

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3 months

Great to be at No 11 to meet a Labour Chancellor to talk about how we grow the economy and boost living standards. The National Wealth Fund, a coherent industrial strategy and the New Deal for Workers mark a positive step change after 14 years of decline.

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11 months

If the government u-turns on ticket office closures it’s testament to: Our rail unions Transport and disability campaigners The commonsense of the British public who opposed the plans I think our small but effective campaign at Apsley may have tipped the balance though! 🤣

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@nowak_paul

6 months

Time to drop the lazy stereotypes and speak up for young workers who are too often forced to put up with low pay, insecure work and lousy bosses.

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6 months

Telegraph journalist Sophia Money-Coutts, of the Coutts dynasty, says young people have it too good. @nowak_paul isn't having it.

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9 months

What’s the difference between @RMTunion @SadiqKhan and this government? The government wants to legislate strikes out of existence and is a stranger to grown up industrial relations. Negotiations aren’t a sign of weakness, they’re how you resolve differences.

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9 months

NEW: This week’s tube strikes have now been suspended. Londoners and visitors to our city will no longer face several days of disruption. This shows what can be achieved by engaging with trade unions and transport staff rather then working against them.

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2 years

A year ago today P & O sacked 786 seafarers without notice or consultation. And this government has let them off scot-free. Never forget. Never forgive. No more P & O’s!

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2 years

Read this thread…I agree 100% - there is no ‘underlying coherence and logic’ to the government’s attack on the right to strike. This is spiteful legislation from a government that has misread the mood of the British public.

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2 years

I've rarely read legislation so lacking in underlying coherence and logic as today's bill from the government that would significantly restrict the right to strike - and I quote - in "health services, fire and rescue services, education services, transport...

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1 year

Ticket office closures may boost the bottom line for train operating companies & their shareholders but they won’t benefit the public one jot. We need a railway run for passengers - delivered by well-paid, securely employed staff - not profit!

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20,000 @RMTunion rail workers are taking strike action today in defence of Jobs, Pay and Conditions. #StaffOurStations #SaveTicketOffices

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5 months

Sacked 800 loyal staff without notice or consultation Pays crew just £4.87 an hour Takes home half a million quid a year Total 🤡

P&O boss admits he couldn't live on £4.87 an hour crew pay

Ferry group chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite earned more than £500,000 last year.

www.bbc.co.uk

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8 months

The private train operators aren’t getting ‘free money’ for providing rotten services - its taxpayers’ money. My money. Your money. Rewarding failure.

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1 year

It’s not uncommon for employers to start out by refusing to negotiate. It means a union has to dig in hard, hold the confidence & support of its members & show it’s mettle. Well done to @CWUnews for standing strong, getting Royal Mail to the table & winning a fair agreement

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We have reached an agreement with Royal Mail Group. They came for the postal workers but WE ARE STILL HERE.

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1 year

This is beyond parody. Unions are organisations rooted in compassion, humanity & solidarity. Values completely at odds with Suella Braverman’s nasty brand of Conservatism.

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2 years

Doesn’t matter how much you earn, or what your job is. Sometimes you have to stand up and do the right thing. 👏 @GaryLineker @IanWright0 @alanshearer

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2 years

BREAKING 🚨 ⚽️ | Gary Lineker has been temporarily removed from presenting Match of the Day. And now co-presenters Alan Shearer and Ian Wright have said they will not work the episode, in solidarity. Respect.

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The government’s offer of a £1500 one off payment to civil servants is down to the persistence of every @pcs_union @ProspectUnion & @FDA_union member who took & voted for industrial action. 👏👍🏼✊🏼

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On Sunday we kick off #TUC23 in my home town of Liverpool. ✊🏼Protecting the right to strike 🥳Celebrating union wins 🥇Winning political change 💰Asking the wealthiest to pay their fair share 💪Building a stronger, more diverse trade union movement. Join a union!

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🐶😗 101. Blame: Migrants Trans people Unions The unemployed The civil service The ‘liberal elite’ (preferably tofu eating) Don’t blame: The party that has been in government for 13 years.

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It seems the right-wing press & politicians have already forgotten that Tory efforts to demonise unions helped them to an historic defeat two months ago. ‘Trying to whip up a ‘them and us’ split between unions and the public is not going to work.’

Rightwing outrage at Labour’s pay deals is out of step with public mood

As figures suggest risk of wage-price spiral is overblown, unions say they have public’s backing for settling of long-running disputes

www.theguardian.com

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2 years

Supermarket workers. Paramedics. Teachers. Baristas. Civil servants. Care workers. Doctors. Warehouse workers. Drivers. EVERYONE deserves decent pay. We have a government that likes to drive wedges between working people. We won’t let them. ✊🏼

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1 year

Trade unionism doesn’t drop from the sky fully formed. It’s built from the bottom up by women and men who put their heads above the parapet for what’s right. Saw that first hand tonight at Amazon in Coventry. Inspirational @GMB_union @GMBMidlands members standing strong 👏✊🏼👍🏼

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11 months

People who will die soon anyway….our Mums, dads, wives, husbands, partners, grandparents, brothers, sisters, friends, workmates. I hope whenever the next election comes, people remember that the Conservative Party thought Boris Johnson was fit to be our PM.

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9 months

40 years ago the Tory govt attacked union rights at GCHQ. Members were told to resign their membership or be sacked. Today, the govt is restricting the right to strike for over 5m workers. We have won before We will win again Join us on 27 January!

Protect the right to strike march and rally

Join us at Montpellier Gardens, Cheltenham at 12pm on Saturday 27 January. Celebrate our history. Protest against the government. Stand up for your rights.

www.tuc.org.uk

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2 years

If I was in Downing Street I think I’d be cautious about calling anybody ‘selfish and irresponsible’…least of all tens of thousands of ⁦ @RMTunion ⁩ workers who haven’t had a pay rise in 3 years and are worried about impact of thousands of redundancies on their industry

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3 years

Oh, how I’ve missed the West Coast Mainline. Couple of hours delay; sat on second replacement train; flooding at Tring & London. Now there’s a fire on approach to Euston. Locusts due at Watford Junction shortly. Never happens to Michael Portillo.

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2 years

Well said @DailyMirror - the decent majority in this country are with our nurses (and our paramedics, physios, midwives, posties, railway workers, university lecturers, teachers, civil servants, and hundreds of thousands of private sector workers taking a stand for decent pay).

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@nowak_paul

2 months

For the avoidance of doubt, the word I used was ‘crappy’, which I hope doesn’t offend too many people…. Most employers don’t use zero hours contracts or threaten fire & rehire. Most pay sick pay from day 1. The New Deal levels the playing field for them.

Labour is coming for ‘c----- employers’ like Wetherspoons, says union chief

Interview: Paul Nowak says only bad apples should fear the impending shake-up

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@nowak_paul

2 years

‘Demonising the unions will not work this time’. What a nice start to the week - copied into an open letter from Arjun (aged 14) to the PM, who makes the point, ‘You and your ministers are currently telling the public porky lies’. #IagreewithArjun

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Paul Nowak

@nowak_paul

2 months

The Covid Inquiry report confirms what we all knew: Austerity - the political choices driven by successive Conservative-led governments after the financial crash - left Britain underprepared for the pandemic.

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@The_TUC

2 months

BREAKING 🚨🚨 | Austerity left the UK underprepared for the pandemic - confirms the Covid Inquiry Report. It states that public services were under HUGE strain - even before Covid struck. Capacity to respond to the pandemic was: •⁠ ⁠“Constrained” by funding •⁠

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@nowak_paul

2 years

Last picket line visit of the year. Top @CWUnews members including my oldest mate Stu standing solid at Prenton. #royalmailstrikes #CWU

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Paul Nowak

@nowak_paul

1 year

The House of Lords once again defeats govt plans to sack workers for taking strike action. Time for common-sense to prevail and for the PM to drop his attack on the Right to Strike.

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@nowak_paul

8 months

Such an honour to be in Cheltenham commemorating the struggle for union rights in GCHQ and rallying to defend the right to strike.

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Paul Nowak

@nowak_paul

5 months

Delighted to don my M & S dinner suit and clip on bow-tie to award Brewdog the TUC’s inaugural Bad Boss of the Month award. A company that stopped paying the real living wage so it could invest in its staff…yes, really.

Trades Union Congress

@The_TUC

5 months

James Watt, CEO of Brewdog, is so punk he.. •⁠ ⁠attended Nigel Farage's 60th birthday party. •⁠ ⁠scrapped paying staff the real living wage. Which is why he's our Worst Employer of the Month! @Nowak_Paul @FairHospitality

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@nowak_paul

16 days

Delighted to hear the first PM in 15 years to speak at @The_TUC set out an ambitious vision for 🇬🇧 after the chaos & division of the last 14 years. Scrapping anti-union legislation Making work pay for all Working with unions & good employers to rebuild & repair our country.

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Paul Nowak

@nowak_paul

1 year

How our bonkers energy market works: Price cap falls Households still pay double what they were paying for gas & electricity in October 2021 Energy companies make massive profits, that aren’t properly taxed. 6.5m household in fuel poverty If that’s not broken I don’t what is

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Paul Nowak

@nowak_paul

2 years

Today hundreds of thousands of members of the @NEUnion @pcs_union @ASLEFunion @RMTunion @ucu @NUJofficial @ProspectUnion @HCSANews will be taking strike action for fair pay, jobs & services. Solidarity one and all & see you on the picket lines! ✊🏼👍🏼

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@nowak_paul

1 year

Last night, to their shame, Conservative MP’s voted to remove the right of train drivers to take strike action. Today I’m off to Cardiff to meet with @ASLEFunion @MickWhelanASLEF @SimonWeller to talk about what more we can do to protect the right to strike ✊🏼👍🏼

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Paul Nowak

@nowak_paul

6 months

A new deal for workers. A coherent industrial strategy. Real power & resources devolved to the regions and nations. A world away from the chaos of our current government.

Keir Starmer

@Keir_Starmer

6 months

Labour in power delivers for working people. In government, we will work together to get Britain’s future back.

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@nowak_paul

1 year

If you ever doubted that our former PM and his political cheerleaders cared about anything other than themselves…no shame, no grace, no nothing.

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@nowak_paul

1 year

An election can’t come soon enough. But whenever it happens… Vote. Them. Out.

Trades Union Congress

@The_TUC

1 year

General Election. Now.

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Paul Nowak

@nowak_paul

2 years

Today it was physio staff. Last week it was the Environment Agency. Week before, ambulance workers. Next week civil servants, lecturers, train drivers & teachers. Add in Amazon workers & the rest! 💯 % energised by meeting fantastic union members standing up for fair pay✊🏼

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@nowak_paul

2 years

Whenever a worker faces a bad boss, the trade union movement will be on their side. On the picket lines. In the courts. Fighting hard for every single job. #JoinaUnion today!

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@nowak_paul

2 months

The TUC was always clear it wasn’t the pay of teachers, nurses & prison officers that drove inflation. Far from being a threat, getting public & private sector wages rising is key to getting our economy back on track. That’s why the Chancellor was right to respect the PRB awards

Richard Partington

@RJPartington

2 months

Breaking: Andrew Bailey says the government's 5.5% public sector pay deal will have almost no impact on inflation. Less than 0.1%. "[an] increment in the inflation space which is very small... quite small second decimal place."

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Paul Nowak

@nowak_paul

11 months

🚨Special ⁦ @The_TUC ⁩ Congress, December 9th We will defend the right to strike. We will defend every worker who exercises their right to strike. We won’t rest until the government’s rotten Strikes Act is scrapped.

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@nowak_paul

5 years

Best wishes and solidarity to ⁦ @ucu members &⁩ ⁦ @DrJoGrady ⁩ taking strike action over the next 8 days in universities. Time to reverse the decade-long pay squeeze in HE

Universities accused of using 'strong-arm tactics' to undermine strike action

Students urged to report striking lecturers; some universities threaten pay reductions

www.theguardian.com

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Paul Nowak

@nowak_paul

1 year

Millions will celebrate the Coronation today & I wish them all the best and hope they have a ball. I also believe those who want to peacefully protest should be able to do so without fear of arrest. Real 🇬🇧 values include tolerance & respect for each other & differing views

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@nowak_paul

1 year

May Day is our day. A day to celebrate everything unions have won & achieved, and to recommit ourselves to doing what we do best - winning for workers, their families and communities. #Solidarity #MayDay

Trades Union Congress

@The_TUC

1 year

This May Day, trade unionists here and around the world, have one message. ‘We aren’t going to take this anymore’.

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Paul Nowak

@nowak_paul

2 years

Not really fussed about meeting celebs, politicians, and all the rest. But ⁦ @NevilleSouthall ⁩ is a class apart. #EvertonFC and Wales legend, and ⁦ @unisontheunion ⁩ rep. Does it get better than that?!

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@nowak_paul

1 month

Working from home is ok for gentlefolk like Jacob, but us plebs can’t be trusted not to slope off and spend our days drinking and playing cards.

Trades Union Congress

@The_TUC

1 month

Jacob Rees-Mogg criticises working from home...while working from home.

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Paul Nowak

@nowak_paul

1 year

Because forcing people to work and taking away their fundamental right to strike is going to make everything better isn’t it? 🙄 That’ll fix the waiting lists, the staffing crisis, the crumbling buildings, the battered morale & all the rest.

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