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General Secretary @The_TUC . Family, unions, politics, canals, Everton FC, @paulnowakmusic

Birkenhead, England

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Paul Nowak

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This week I travelled to Kyiv with ⁦ @ituc ⁩ to meet unions members & activists. The surgeons who work through air raid alerts, the transport workers who keep trains running across the country - they are keeping Ukraine going in the darkest of times.

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TUC general secretary Paul Nowak - 'We all stand with the people of Ukraine'

The surgeons who work through the air raid alerts, the transport workers who keep the trains running across the country despite the ever present threat of rocket attacks – these are the people...

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Paul Nowak

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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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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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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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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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Paul Nowak

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

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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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‘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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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

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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Paul Nowak

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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Paul Nowak

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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Paul Nowak

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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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Paul Nowak

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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Trades Union Congress

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

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Paul Nowak

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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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Paul Nowak

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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Paul Nowak

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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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Paul Nowak

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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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Paul Nowak

6 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.

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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”

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8 months

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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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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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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Paul Nowak

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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Paul Nowak

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@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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Paul Nowak

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…

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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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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…

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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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Paul Nowak

8 months

‘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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Paul Nowak

10 months

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

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Paul Nowak

1 year

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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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8 months

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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Paul Nowak

6 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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@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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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 ⁩

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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

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1 year

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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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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1 year

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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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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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.

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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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Paul Nowak

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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Paul Nowak

7 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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Paul Nowak

2 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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2 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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5 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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Sadiq Khan

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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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1 year

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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10 months

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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1 year

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

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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.

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8 months

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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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

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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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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1 year

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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Paul Nowak

8 months

🐶😗 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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Paul Nowak

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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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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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Paul Nowak

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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!

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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.

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Paul Nowak

1 year

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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Paul Nowak

7 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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Paul Nowak

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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Paul Nowak

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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1 year

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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1 year

‘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

1 year

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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4 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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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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Paul Nowak

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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.

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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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Paul Nowak

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

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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Paul Nowak

2 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.

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Keir Starmer

2 months

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

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Paul Nowak

1 year

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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Paul Nowak

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

8 months

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

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Trades Union Congress

8 months

General Election. Now.

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Paul Nowak

1 year

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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Paul Nowak

7 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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Paul Nowak

1 year

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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Paul Nowak

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

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

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

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Paul Nowak

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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Paul Nowak

8 months

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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Paul Nowak

1 year

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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Paul Nowak

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

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Trades Union Congress

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

2 years

What struck me today is how much each and every one of the @RMTunion strikers I spoke to, cared about the job they do and the service they provide. They are proud of working on our railways. Time for government and their employers to do right by them.

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TUC North West

2 years

We caught up with @RMTunion members straight from the picket line this morning in Liverpool alongside our @The_TUC Deputy General Secretary @nowak_paul Solidarity always ✊🎬▶️

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Paul Nowak

1 year

Solidarity to every @ucu member taking part in the marking & assessment boycott, fighting for decent pay & conditions. And shame on university bosses threatening to deduct 100% of pay - bully boy tactics that have no play in our universities. #ucuRISING

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Paul Nowak

1 year

Interesting roundtable on growth with ⁦ @UKLabour ⁩ ⁦ @Keir_Starmer ⁩ ⁦ @RachelReevesMP ⁩ ⁦ @DianaHolland_ ⁩ ⁦ @DeborahMeaden ⁩ & others. We need a #NewDeal for workers that delivers good jobs and rising wages. Miles away from current govt’s approach

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Paul Nowak

1 year

Who do you trust with the future of our public services? Our paramedics, physios, prison officers, civil servants, midwives, nurses, firefighters & teachers…or a government that has presided over a decade of cuts, understaffing & pay cuts 🤔 🧐

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Paul Nowak

11 months

It’s in the best interests of pupils, parents and teachers that the ongoing dispute on pay is brought to a swift & fair resolution. The government must publish the STRB - teachers’ pay review body - recommendations without delay & get back around the negotiating table.

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Paul Nowak

2 years

Falling wages. A cost of living crisis. The solution? Scrap the cap on banker’s bonuses….seriously? Attacks on unions, deregulating the city, cutting public services. All we need is for PM & Chancellor to swap mix tapes and we ‘re right back in the 1980’s. A divided, unequal 🇬🇧

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Paul Nowak

4 months

Thanks to the thousands who turned up in Cheltenham yesterday. Protect the right to strike! ✊🏼

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Charlie Pullinger

4 months

Scenes in Cheltenham today 🪧🎥 Protect the #RightToStrike ‼️ Solidarity always ✊

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Paul Nowak

1 year

Unfair, unjust, unworkable. A spiteful attack on trade unions and trade unionists. Join our call to #RejectandRepeal #protecttherighttostrike

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Paul Nowak

1 year

Massive privilege to address the @NEUnion rally in London yesterday. Tens of thousands of striking teachers, civil servants, university lecturers, train and bus drivers and many more. We need pay justice. We must protect the #RightToStrike

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Paul Nowak

9 months

This doesn’t happen by accident. It’s what happens when a government stands by and let’s a company sack 800 people: ➡️ Without notice ➡️ Without consultation ➡️ In the full knowledge they were breaking the law We need a new government & a new deal for workers

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Paul Nowak

10 months

Thousands of jobs at risk. Hard earned pensions under threat. Taxpayers on the hook for picking up the pieces of ruined livelihoods. And yet - as always - some people walk away enriched beyond belief. We have an economy that works for the super-rich and fails the rest of us.

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Warren Kenny

10 months

Wilko paid out £77m to owners before collapse

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Paul Nowak

1 year

Bullies, tax avoiders, law breakers. Denying people their basic right to strike. Threatening employment rights. Debasing politics so much you green light backbenchers to have a bit of ‘banter’ about missing, vulnerable children. I reckon we can do better than this - agree?

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