Aisha Malik-Smith
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Unite the Union Officer. Labour Councillor for New Cross Gate. Disabled. RTs/❤️s ≠ endorsements. Views my own. 🚩🍞🌹🤝
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This
#InternationalWomensDay
, check out the 5 reasons every woman belongs in a trade union:
From winning fairer pay, to fighting sexual harassment in the workplace - women's liberation is advanced by being an active member of a trade union!
#IWD2023
#EmbraceEquity
💜💚
5 reasons every woman belongs in a trade union: equal pay, fairer pay, fighting sexual harassment, protection at work, job security.
#IWD2023
#EmbraceEquity
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@ANMalikSmith
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just had a bloke buy me a pint in a long queue for the bar and not expect anything of it, he just nodded at the telly and went "women's euros innit". A high point for feminism
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funny that the Chancellor's wife's non-dom tax avoidance is off limits for public scrutiny but when my boyfriend was out of work needing Universal Credit the state was more than happy to take my meagre income into account.
one rule for the Tories, wealthier than we can imagine.
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no supermarket delivery slots for a fortnight in the new Tier 4 areas.
all the young people in house shares, who were told just 3 days ago they could go to their family homes for christmas as planned, no food in the house, presents delivered elsewhere, plans in tatters.
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I absolutely refuse to believe that this many people are astounded a guy would buy someone else a drink 😭 have yous been to a pub
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when I was 18, I was groped & sexually harassed by someone with such power in the Labour Party that I didn't speak up sooner. I've been drafting a complaint to the party for the past month. I'm so proud of the survivors who've spoken up recently & given me the courage to do so.
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BBC chairman, Richard Sharp, donated £400k+ to the Conservative Party & helped Boris Johnson secure a £800k personal loan.
BBC Director-General, Tim Davie, is a former Conservative Party candidate.
Gary Lineker tweeting about inhumane govt asylum policy isn't the problem.
Gary Lineker to step back from presenting Match of the Day until agreement reached on social media use - BBC statement
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when the finances of a couple living together to save on rent in their early 20s are considered jointly relevant to an individual's recourse to welfare, then the fiscal choices of the wife of the man designing our fiscal programme are probably relevant to the public!
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1920: 53,000 spectators watch women's football in Goodison Park
1921: the Football League bans women from playing in their grounds
1971: the ban on women playing is lifted
2022: England's women win the first major international tournament since 1966!
#WEURO2022
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First Monday of the new government and we're down to work, wonderful to catch up with a good friend and true Labour legend,
@JovanforClacton
! 🌹🫶🏽
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Don't let this detail from No. 10's whiteboard get missed: on 13th March 2020 they were asking themselves who NOT to save from the pandemic.
We now know the answer to that.
They didn't save 128,000 lives, and 6 out of 10 deaths were of Disabled people.
65/ First sketch of Plan B, PM study, Fri 13/3 eve - shown PM Sat 14/4: NB. Plan A 'our plan' breaks NHS,>4k p/day dead min.Plan B: lockdown, suppress, crash programs (tests/treatments/vaccines etc), escape 1st AND 2nd wave (squiggly line instead of 1 or 2 peaks)... details later
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"you don't deal with criminality by authorising criminality" -
@jeremycorbyn
nailing it on the Covert Human Intelligence Sources Bill 👏🏽👏🏽
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the most frustrating thing about people who treat Young Labour with contempt? they talk about us somehow not working to get Labour into power, as if we weren't out every dark cold winter night in 2019 - while the bloke writing Keir's conference speech was posting stuff like this
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simple things Amazon could do to reduce the need for a footballer to lobby councils and charities to feed kids:
- pay their taxes
- recognise
@GMB_union
- pay their staff a better wage
- get Jeff Bezos to use his wealth to literally end world hunger
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not selling anything, just join & get active in a trade union 🫱🏽🫲🏻
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Why on earth is a trade union hiring on 'apprentice rates' of £4.30 per hour?! The trade union movement should be working to outlaw poverty wages, not inflicting them - bloody outrageous.
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Stripping disabled people of benefits they live on is cruel, divisive and dehumanising.
The maximum amount of PIP is 184 quid a week for the highest support needs.
It's essential to enable us to live independently. Plugging gaping holes in social care & NHS waiting lists.
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@jovanforclacton
mate, you should know you're making us all proud. Your courage & compassion in standing up to this divisive grifter is an example to everyone. The true man of the people! 🌹🫱🏽🫲🏻
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Rosie Duffield has now taken to undermining Charlotte Nichols, the Shadow Minister for Women & Equalities, on the issue of transphobia. What exactly will it take for Keir Starmer to suspend the whip?
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the BBC 'interviewing' (allowing to monologue) Alan Dershowitz immediately after the Ghislaine Maxwell verdict, just to top their Gonzalo Pinochet on Boric the other week
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💥 100,000
@PCS_union
civil servants
💥 115,000
@CWUnews
posties
💥 70,000
@UCU
lecturers
💥 50,000
@RMTunion
railway workers
💥 40,000 BT & Openreach staff
💥 Nurses at 176 trusts with
@RCN
💥 £150m of pay wins for
@unitetheunion
members
If our pay doesn't rise, we will.
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when you have more current or former employees for Deutsche Bank on your local Labour shortlist than you have women, maybe something is a bit wrong
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cheers for the DHOTYAs but you can stop liking this tweet now and like this one instead about the history of women's football x
1920: 53,000 spectators watch women's football in Goodison Park
1921: the Football League bans women from playing in their grounds
1971: the ban on women playing is lifted
2022: England's women win the first major international tournament since 1966!
#WEURO2022
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a lot of people on here still engage with this man, who is followed by around 100 of my mutuals. I think if I don't speak out, he'll get a safe seat & his power would grow. I know his is a pattern of behaviour. I'm not speaking up for me, I'm speaking up for the safety of others.
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when we talk about independent processes for sexual assault, we must also consider the importance of them for semi-autonomous socialist societies, like the Fabians.
I won't be naming him publicly, for the sake of independence in any ensuing investigation.
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XR get a shred of class consciousness challenge
Smithfield (the UK’s biggest meat market) has been transformed overnight by climate activists into a ‘plant-based’ market.
Instead of cuts of meat you’ve got apples, rhubarb and onions in the stalls - and some furious traders outside who haven’t been able to work a shift.
@LBC
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First World Cup final for England in 57 years. And women's football was banned by the FA for half of the last century. The
#Lionesses
are magnificent.
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EXCLUSIVE: radical leftist that knocked police officer off horse pictured here on the right of former Labour leader!
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Massive turn out to oppose the far right in Honor Oak this morning. There are many many more of us than you! Great support from the community for all of Lewisham's diversity 🏳️🌈😍
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my personal highlight of the Handforth Parish Council video
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Keir: appoints an entirely(?) white team
Keir: oh no who put this here
NEW: Keir Starmer is unveiling a set of measures to tackle anti-Black racism within Labour – from building on the Bernie Grant Leadership Programme to introducing an immediate audit into the diversity of party staff:
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items the UK absolutely does not have the capacity to manufacture domestically: face masks, basic PPE, most essential things for people in our country
items the UK can manufacture and export: tear gas, rubber bullets, riot shields
🤔
UK government urged to suspend export of tear gas, rubber bullets and riot shields to US over repression of protests
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@ted_pen
hahaha just checked my phone and honestly honored that people think I have enough time on my hands to spend my evening celebrating making shit up for twitter
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@REWearmouth
Not sure I'd spend my energy critiquing Greta for this, especially when media folks like JHB are arguably doing worse to boost his profile!
I'd choose Andrew Tate's life *every single time* over the life of a half-educated, doom-mongering eco-cultist. And the only car I own is a diesel Tiguan. 🤷🏻♀️ 1/2
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"Wages have rarely risen higher than inflation for 30 years. Profits for the last 30 years have rarely risen at a rate lower than inflation. There has been a huge transfer of wealth from the pockets of working people to the rich." - Eddie Dempsey, RMT Senior AGS
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Labour Students was abolished due to gerrymandering and vote-rigging that saw only 507 student members eligible to vote in its elections out of 30,000.
"The ballot being fundamentally undemocratic" is actually a pretty accurate description of how Rania got her position.
The ballot was fundamentally undemocratic” says Rania Ramli, chair of Labour Students, who backs Jess Phillips for Labour leader
Momentum backs Rebecca Long-Bailey, although her name was the only one on its ballot put to members
#politicslive
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so glad the hard work of our
@YoungLabourUK
committee has paid off - packed out room at our rally, with an absolute bumper lineup of speakers!
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can't quite believe Momentum have created something so beautiful
The Labour Party leadership say you can't talk about Jeremy Corbyn, so what can you talk about?
Use our motion generator to find out...
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Don't want to see anyone making fluffy jokes about the reshuffle when its primary purpose is to distract from the fact the Tories are going to vote to take £1040 a year from people on the breadline today.
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a billionaire author sharing transphobic views to her 14 million followers is not facing persecution. young trans people are facing persecution.
The persecution of
@jk_rowling
is shocking. Despite the abuse, she still has the courage to speak out for what she believes in, which seems like a rare quality in these polarised times.
Her acceptance of Lloyd Russell-Moyle’s apology is classy, and worth reading.
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thrilled to have been elected Chair of Lewisham Deptford by our members - thank you for having faith in me! long may we continue to be a warm, inclusive and actively socialist CLP 💞✊🏽
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Thrilled to be elected as
@YoungLabourUK
's Disabled Members' Officer, a huge thanks to all those who supported me!
We have enormous systemic barriers to address - from work & education, to the broken welfare system. Disabled people’s rights are core to the labour movement! ✊🏽🚩
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photo of 4 police officers on patrol breaking up gatherings of more than 2 people on 20th May 2020 in Deptford, taken from my front doorstep at the time. the same evening, 5 miles away, Downing St had a BYOB garden party for up to 100 people.
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Hot take here, but the leader of the Labour Party should be able to unequivocally condemn a white supremacist conspiracy when confronted with it! Not capitulate to supporters of fascist ideology!
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an honour to be here with Jeremy Corbyn, Owen Jones, Jennie Formby, Len McCluskey, and Kevin Maguire to celebrate and commemorate
@Harryslaststand
#istandwithharry
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🚨 OVER HALF A MILLION BRITISH PEOPLE ARE ON STRIKE TODAY 🚨
They're withdrawing their labour and working collectively with their colleagues to improve working conditions & oppose real terms pay cuts.
Stand with teachers, junior doctors, tube workers and everyone taking action!
Tomorrow (budget day) marks one of the biggest days of strikes in decades:
133,000 civil servants
300,000 teachers
70,000 university staff
50,000 junior doctors
Amazon workers (Coventry)
Tens of thousands of
@ProspectUnion
members
London tube workers
BBC radio journalists
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since it's his last day in downing street, let's reminisce on some of david cameron's greatest photos over the years
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Cannot for the life of me understand why mounted Met Police are allowed to make public footpaths unsafe and unclean with their horse droppings - forcing wheelchair users, those with mobility impairments or with pushchairs into a busy cycle lane!
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Delighted & honoured to be selected as
@lewishamlabour
council candidate for New Cross Gate! Thank you to members for putting your faith in me.
Congrats also to newly selected
@LiamShrivastava
- couldn't ask for a better running mate!
We'll work so hard for this community 🌹✊🏽
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🌹Keir Starmer's attack on the democratic voice of Young Labour for expressing solidarity with Jeremy Corbyn is unacceptable.
🤝 We must stand up for the right of young members to be heard.
📣 Submit this emergency motion to your branch/CLP and SHARE!
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today i fulfilled a long-awaited childhood dream and re-enacted the lion king (my cat is not as happy as i am now)
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Placing the burden on individuals to limit their social interactions is not only cruel to keyworkers and the hospitality sector, completely unsustainable without furlough and decent SSP, but the anxiety and uncertainty of it all is so very damaging for everyone's mental health.
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just noticed the bloke opposite me on the tube has a GMB bag, the guy two seats along has an ASLEF diary, and I'm doing the crossword with a Unite pen
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When we should be focused on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the revocation of all COVID restrictions amid a large wave of positive tests, and the cost of living soaring, I do not know why the Labour Party's main target is passionate, hard-working young activists & volunteers.
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I mean, I expect my friends to be having a cooler social life than me on snapchat, sure, but jezza is taking things to the next level now
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Introducing your new Labour Councillors for New Cross Gate in Lewisham!
So grateful for everyone's warm wishes,
@LiamShrivastava
's brilliant support, and above all else, the faith of the people of New Cross Gate.
Now, to a complete Labour victory for the many! ✊🏽🌹
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well, it appears New Cross has declared independence in my absence
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Millennials and Gen Z think of little other than the cost of rent and inequality of the housing market. The reason it gets less consideration in parliamentary politics is the over-representation of middle class landlords and homeowners, and the average age of MPs being 51.
Do millenials ever stop to consider how ludicrous it is that most are paying more in rent each month than they would if they had a mortgage on the same property? They're working to pay off their landlord's mortgage, funding their lifestyle. All for the sake of a mortgage deposit.
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As an elected Councillor for the party founded by the labour movement, I'll be out on the picket lines in Lewisham.
Rail shareholders are taking millions from the industry: those working to keep the tracks safe and our trains clean & accessible deserve job security and fair pay
EXCLUSIVE: Labour front benchers have been told by the party leadership that they are banned from picket lines this week amid rail strikes:
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Dear
@LisaNandy
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Please make your first act at DCMS to give England a bank holiday on Monday if we win on Sunday.
Thank you.
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I've had the pleasure of interviewing both Frances O'Grady and Jeremy Corbyn for tomorrow's Daily Mirror - check out the articles below!
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Young workers who follow the rules and self-isolate after catching COVID or being pinged by the app face a significant loss of earnings - weekly statutory sick pay is 78% lower than the weekly London living wage.
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was on a pub quiz team with Mike Gapes, he overruled several of my correct answers, and the quizmaster was the Beast from The Chase.
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did not expect this tweet to blow up, so a few things to add:
1. disabled young people exist!
2. be compassionate to others, be angry with the government - their mishandling of this has caused a lot of distress & anxiety for everyone.
3. join a union:
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not to be a scrooge, but Christmas is not saved for the 13 deported to Jamaica last night, or the thousands stuck on universal credit for nearly a year after the government failed to provide economic support for them, or the disabled workers dying from lack of protections?
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this is precisely what Labour Students did to many delegates at their AGM this year. young people travelled for hours from across the country to Edinburgh for the weekend, spending hundreds on accommodation & transport, to find out that Labour Students wouldn't let them in at all
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having faced actual abuse, violence and threats when I've been in relationships with women & nb ppl, it's another punch to the gut to hear Rosie Duffield, who stood beside me at 2019 Pride, now implying I can't call myself queer (especially now I'm in a relationship with a man)!
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Thousands of people defending the
#RightToStrike
outside Downing St tonight! Righteous outrage and rallying calls from
@DrJoGrady
of
@UCU
&
@nowak_paul
of
@The_TUC
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Utterly shameful how senior figures in Labour HQ have been permitted by the current leadership to treat Diane Abbott.
As a minimum she deserves respect - not least for her service to the party, parliament, and the public.
Removing the local party's executive is anti-democratic.
As a Black woman, and someone on the left of the Labour Party, I have unfortunately been forced to reach the conclusion that I will not get a fair hearing from this Labour leadership.
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Since we're talking about the legacy of slavery in Britain, here's a reminder that if you paid tax before 2015, your money was still being used to pay off compensation to the families of slave owners for the emancipation of slaves after the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act.
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not to reignite the communism debate but WOW the museum of communism in Prague has some hot takes
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Honored to remain Chair of Lewisham Deptford CLP after a busy AGM tonight - thanks to local members for your faith in me, I am proud to continue leading a compassionate, inclusive and engaging local Party. A luta continua! 🚩✊🏽
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wonderful to have a chat with Rebecca Long-Bailey after her rally tonight, brilliant announcement on open selection and a strong radical policy platform to lead an inclusive democratic socialist party.
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Obligatory bit of ✨ personal news ✨:
I'm thrilled to be starting a new job as Organiser & Caseworker for
@BexleyUNISON
! Really proud to be tasked with organising and supporting trade union activity in the borough I grew up in 🤝
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I've never been as moved by parliamentary business than watching Lloyd Russell-Moyle's speech on being HIV positive in the House of Commons chamber. This is a historic moment for our LGBT community, so much love to
@lloyd_rm
right now.
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framing social care as primarily affecting the elderly fundamentally misses the point that half of social care users are working age disabled people!
their support should be centred in independent living, not rooted in paternalism or institutionalisation. and funded by the rich.
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giving someone who loudly believes that disabled people's lives are worth less a platform in left media amid a pandemic that has disproportionately killed us due to eugenicist rhetoric like his, just to have a chat about veganism, isn't actually socialist praxis.
"I'm sure that they're suffering in these experiments."
Last week on
#Downstream
@PeterSinger
spoke about the capacity of animals to feel pain – one of many reasons to consider veganism.
#animalliberation
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we booked half of the London Labour Students delegation into a cheap hostel without checking Google Street View to see what offices were beneath it
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Students overwhelmingly support the UCU strike action because they understand the effect of staff being overworked on their learning and support - let alone all the post-grad teaching assistants on precarious contracts. Both students and staff are worse off with marketisation.
Deeply irresponsible for the UCU to be calling strikes now, when students have already missed so much face-to-face teaching.
I urge both sides to work constructively together - and I hope most staff will think twice before making students pay the price.
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Enormous turnout outside the offices of P&O's parent company to rally against this tearing up of employment legislation and disgraceful mass redundancies! If the Government can seize oligarchs' funds, they can put a stop to this attack on workers. Power to the
@RMTunion
! ✊🏽
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Never expected to leave an LYL committee meeting shaking with tears, but there we are!
I was so looking forward to the opportunity to build on the great campaigning & events we have run over the past year, but the meeting was completely shut down, inaccessible, and undemocratic.
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Prue Leith, David Dimbleby, and Liam Fox all speaking over and patronising Laura Pidcock on
#bbcqt
tonight. God forbid a competent, intelligent young woman dare exhibit self-assertion and confidence.
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*taps microphone* EVERY CANVASS SESSION TO END WITH MULLED WINE
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I really think that a 'socialist society' affiliated to the Labour Party probably shouldn't have a sexual harassment complaints procedure that says if a complaint is not upheld a written record will be sent to all parties exonerating the alleged harasser! 🙃
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finding it really hard having worsened symptoms associated with Long COVID and seeing how nonchalant some folks are about catching (and even spreading) it! glad you think you'll be fine but it wiped me out for months and I'd rather not get it again!
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noel fielding & richard ayoade: humanity's last hope
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Braved the rain to take the
#SaveTicketOffices
campaign directly to local commuters at New Cross station, with freepost postcards to send into the consultation.
Don't make our railways less safe & accessible - respond to the consultation by 26th July!
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central line straight from Brockley to Brixton to Chessington? sign me up!
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