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This one's for the Sikhs who have supported Reform: did you think they would not come for you?
It’s time for the #GoodJobsBill
Time for @niassembly.bsky.social
to debate and legislate
Time to stop lobbyists vetoing popular legislation
Time for Stormont to deliver for working people
@irishcongress
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
🤝 Right to #CollectiveBargaining
In #SriLanka, more than 1,400 NEXT factory workers were dismissed via WhatsApp after a factory closure breached a collective bargaining agreement.
💸 Workers are not disposable
⚖️ Respect collective agreements and workers’ rights
👉 buff.ly/N1PrbRU #RightsIndex26
There is time for our elected MLAs to progress the Good Jobs Bill if the will is there
"What this moment requires now is political leadership and a willingness to look beyond narrow interests of a few" Gerry Murphy
About the Good Jobs Bill: www.ictuni.org/news/unions-...
@nic-ictu.bsky.social
Join a union 💪
"Trade Union rights are not some kind of optional add on that can be removed from this bill, they are fundamental to it.
Without TU rights, 000's of workers across NI will be locked out from accessing many of the rights that deputy First Minister says she supports"
www.ictuni.org/news/unions-...
Not sure if this is one of my most rightwing or my most leftwing takes, but if you believe there is such a thing as “excessive profits” in a sector you really should just go ahead and insource the service you’re paying for:
"What this moment requires now is political leadership and a willingness to look beyond narrow interests of a few"
://www.ictuni.org/news/unions-there-time-our-elected-mlas-progress-good-jobs-bill-if-will-there
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Steve Reed, the local government secretary, says he will crack down on ‘unreasonable cost escalation’
He's quoting Kanye West to score points and stir up trouble over a truly horrible case that resulted in the death of a young man.
I hope it all backfires horribly for this poor excuse of a politician.
Otto English
The most dangerous wrong ideas in public policy are the ones that sound so intuitively true that any attempt to push back or even nuance them can be sneeringly dismissed as academic foolishness that flies in the face of 'common sense'.
I... may have written a book about this. 👀
The Good Jobs Bill was first announced almost two years ago but the legal text of the draft law has still not been published.
www.bbc.co.uk
www.ictuni.org
The Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions repeats its call for the NI Executive to bring forward the Good Jobs Employment Bill before MLAs leave Stormont for the summer rece...
The Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions notes with deep alarm and disappointment, the comments made by Gavin Robinson MP and Deputy First Minister Emma Little Pengelly MLA...
Whether it’s fighting for fair pay and conditions, demanding better health and safety, or tackling the scourge of insecure work, unions are delivering real change for working people.
I can excuse @iaindale.bsky.social's ignorance here.
Just because anyone with a very basic economics education should recognise the lump of labour fallacy doesn't mean he should.
But the arrogance combined with the absolutely deliberate refusal to think is quite remarkable.
