Looking forward to celebrating domestic workers on International Domestic Workers Day 2026.
Join the picnic 1pm, 14 July 2026, Old Palace Yard & support migrant domestic workers call for a visa which enables access to workers rights 💪
A BBC investigation has uncovered shocking allegations of abuse aboard a Scottish fishing vessel.
ITF Fisheries Section Coordinator Chris Williams warns, there is a "structural, systemic problem" in the recruitment of migrant workers in the fishing industry.
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📢 Care workers are marching on Downing Street on 10 June.
Migrant care workers came to the UK when the sector desperately needed them. They worked hard, paid their taxes and built their lives here.
Now the government wants to change the rules.
#FairVisaCampaign
Latest data due tomorrow but your regular reminder: net migration is *plunging* without these plans being enacted.
For 14 years, the UK’s restrictive Overseas Domestic Worker (ODW) visa regime has trapped migrants in a system that enables modern slavery behind closed doors.
We’re standing alongside migrant domestic workers to demand a visa that protects them 👇️
As Bluesky was down (for me at least), I did my rage posting in here instead: open.substack.com/pub/thoughts...
The IASC’s term ends in December. Recruitment really needs to be underway to avoid (another) lengthy gap in this role
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Migrant domestic workers know what works to address exploitation & enable access to workers rights. It’s time to listen to them & reinstate the rights on the ODW visa @voiceofdws.bsky.social @kalayaan.org.uk @focusonlabour.bsky.social
Welcome the UCL #workinglives recommendation of the early implementation of a firewall, or secure reporting by the Fair Work Agency
@focusonlabour.bsky.social @drellac.bsky.social
Kate Roberts
Great to see this win for domestic workers in Indonesia after 22 years of calling for rights. Migrant domestic worker in the UK have been campaigning for a visa which allows access to basic rights for 14 years. Let’s make sure it’s no longer @voiceofdws.bsky.social
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The migrant fishermen who waited nine years to give evidence about the company that exploited them.
Burnham to back Shabana Mahmood’s immigration changes, allies say
Exclusive: Greater Manchester understood to support home secretary’s push to limit legal and illegal migration
Andy Burnham is backing Shabana Mahmood’s controversial changes to the immigration system, his allies have said, in a blow to those in Labour who hope to soften them.
The Greater Manchester mayor is understood to be keen to reframe the changes but supportive of the home secretary’s attempts to limit legal and illegal migration, which have been criticised by some senior Labour MPs as un-British and mimicking Trump. Continue reading...
