💰 The £ is there to rebuild services & industry
🧐 Britain is the 6th richest economy in the world
🎩 The top 50 families are worth £500bn
💸 A tax on the super-rich would wipe out
@RachelReevesMP
‘s ‘black hole'
So say Bromley
@38Degrees
@Greenpeace
@IPPR
@PatMillsUK
@350
...
Pensioners are taking action outside
#LabourConference2024
while Unite Chair Andy Green and the Unite delegation try to force a debate on conference floor.
We say: Tax the wealthiest. Don't pickpocket pensioners!
Agree? Pls share 💥
“The
@LabourParty
sacking of
@SamTarry
for supporting working people on strike, against cuts to their jobs and pay, is another insult to the trade union movement. Quite frankly it would be laughable if it were not so serious.”
@UniteSharon
1/3
WATCH THIS. VOTE YES!
Kerry a paramedic and Unite rep says
#voteYES
! Ambulance workers deserve a decent pay rise.
Your
#NHSPay
vote has been posted to you. Post your ballot paper back today.
Missing ballot? Go to:
“The Labour Party was founded by the trade unions and we expect Labour MPs to defend workers, by words and by actions. To instruct Labour MPs not to be on picket lines with workers speaks volumes.”
@UniteSharon
1/2
We did it! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
We've secured a deal (subject to a members' vote) that ends the use of
#FireAndRehire
by
#BritishAirways
in its cargo division – the last part of BA where it was still a threat.
To our BA cargo members who stood firm during 9 days of strike action: ✊🏽✊🏽
"Today,
#UPC2021
voted to support Proportional Representation in Westminster elections for the first time in our history. Our political class has failed working people and our system is broken. It is time to change our democracy."
@UniteSharon
Following the Labour leadership hustings held today by the party's biggest affiliate, Unite, the union has declared that it is backing Rebecca Long-Bailey for leader. Unite is also backing Richard Burgon as deputy leader.
“I’m talking to the German unions and the American unions…Let’s work together to get Amazon organised in those three countries. If we do that, we could actually pincer them simultaneously in their three biggest markets” - Unite GS
@UniteSharon
"Why are we talking about rules changes in Labour in a crisis. They should focus on the issues that are facing workers and communities and how they can affect change."
@UniteSharon
#MembersGS
"We are urging Honda to think again. Honda, do not turn your back on a world-class, loyal workforce determined to bring you continued success" >>
Honda workers travel to parliament as campaign to save Swindon plant ramps up via
@itvnews
#SaveHondaSwindon
“Labour is becoming more and more irrelevant to ordinary working people who are suffering. Juvenile attacks on trade unionists will do absolutely nothing to further Labour’s prospects for power.”
@UniteSharon
3/3
Sharon Graham announced as Unite's new general secretary.
"I thoroughly congratulate Sharon on her victory, which reaffirms her as the most formidable campaigning force in our movement" -
@LenMcCluskey
Read more ⬇️
.
@Keir_Starmer
: "We must tighten belts, live within our means & fill the Tories’ £22 billion black hole."
@UniteSharon
: "No we don’t. If money has to be raised, pensioners should be last in the queue, the super-rich first."
Pass it on
#WealthTax
now!
Tom Bower in the
@DailyMailUK
is wrong on the very basics. There is no Lenin portrait in
@LenMcCluskey
office and Momentum hasn’t had a penny from Unite. Getting simple facts wrong makes us wonder what he gets right
#DangerousHero
.
@LenMcCluskey
: We say loud and clear, racists out of politics, fascists off our streets and to the Football Lads Alliance “get the fuck off our terraces”.
#N17Unity
“David Lammy has chosen to launch a direct attack on BA workers. This is a group of workers who were savagely attacked by their employer during Covid. ‘Fire and rehire’ led to thousands of unnecessary job cuts & pay being slashed.”
@UniteSharon
1/3
Unite leader suspends
@CoventryLabour
councillors and announces investigation into conduct. They stand accused of colluding with strike breaking, sacking a shop steward and failing to negotiate with union members. Read
@UniteSharon
speech in full ⬇️
We face the prospect of having to defeat Tommy Robinson at the Euro elections, here in the North West. The far right are on the rise and only the labour movement can stop them warns
@LenMcCluskey
at the
#Liverpool
#MayDay
rally
“At a time when people are facing a cost of living crisis and on the day when the Conservative Government has launched a new wave of attacks on the rights of working people, the Labour Party has opted to continue to indulge in old factional wars.”
@UniteSharon
2/3
“It's time for the rebirth of the trade union movement. We now need to act together.”
@UniteSharon
, Unite General Secretary.
Thanks to everyone who came to the march and rally today to
#DemandBetter
.
Hope you all have a safe journey home.
Unite will continue to campaign against the
#winterfuel
allowance whether that be inside or outside the Labour Party Conf.
Our campaign to save the
#WinterFuelAllowance
will continue and workers & communities voices will be heard.
Share, like & comment.
"People simply do not understand, I do not understand, how our new Labour government can cut the
#winterfuel
allowance for pensioners and leave the super-rich untouched.
“This is not what people voted for. It is the wrong decision and needs to be reversed."
@UniteSharon
As the biggest trade union in the country representing workers from every walk of life across the whole of the economy, we know Boris Johnson's sell out deal is bad for workers' rights and industry.
MPs must reject it.
Shame on the Port of Felixstowe, millions in the bank. Yet a pay cut for dockers. Unite says no way!
#SupporttheStrike
. Support dockers defending
#JobsPayConditions
. On strike from today (21/08) for eight days.
✊🏼Share your messages of solidarity.
#dockersdemandbetter
We’re marching to demand action to tackle the
#CostOfLivingCrisis
. We didn’t create this crisis - we shouldn’t have to pay for it now.
It’s time we
#DemandBetter
@Jasmin_Beckett
@LenMcCluskey
Please be advised that legal advice is now being sought in relation to this public accusation levelled at our general secretary.
🎇 Victory at Go North West as Unite defeats
#fireandrehire
to end strike ✊✊
"This is a tremendous victory by Unite’s members who, through their dedication, solidarity and commitment, have defeated the attempt to
#fireandrehire
them"
@LenMcCluskey
Pensioners will die this winter because of a decision taken by a Labour Government 🤯
There are 4 weeks till the budget. SHOUT OUT LOUD & tell
@UKLabour
&
@RachelReevesMP
it's not too late to reverse the cut to
#WinterFuelPayments
RT. Comment. Get heard 📢
@UniteEconomy
“Unite is confident that
@RichardBurgon
will make a superb deputy to Becky, displaying the qualities that have long been absent from that post - pride in our values, a passion for our party to succeed &, above all, loyalty to their leader.”
#Richard4Deputy
People need to see their lives improve. Taking money off pensioners on as little as £220 a week, while the 50 richest families in Britain own a combined £500 billion, doesn’t do that.
That is why Unite is holding
@UKLabour
to account over
#winterfuel
.
The UK state pension, one of the lowest in the OECD, of £220 per week is totally inadequate. Unite also opposes further rises in the state pension age which is already one of the oldest retirement ages in Europe.
Check out Unite's essential guide for reps
“Thank you for your service and for getting stranded passengers home,”
@jeremycorbyn
tells Thomas Cook workers as they rally outside parliament. “It (Thomas Cook’s collapse) would not have happened under a Labour govt,” he adds.
#ThomasCookCollapse
#PayUpNow
“What is emerging from Labour is a pattern of behaviour to literally take out any MP or mayor who backs key manifesto demands on the re-nationalisation of energy, action on rampant profiteering & investment in UK steel.”
@UniteSharon
💰 A tax on the wealthiest 1% could raise £25bn. Economic black whole gone & cash to invest in economy & public services
@UniteSharon
tells
@bbcnickrobinson
Tax the rich like Unite say? Or pickpocket pensioners like
@UKLabour
say? Time for a rethink Kier 🤔
@BBCr4today
#TUC2024
Unite is proud we’ve opened our London HQ as an emergency shelter as part of the Mayor of London homelessness programme Severe Weather Emergency Provision.
@SadiqKhan
is working with homeless charity
@StMungos
and our members there are setting up and staffing the shelters.
#SWEP
"We have a standing army of tens of thousands of experienced health and safety reps who can play a key role. I was looking for the government to say it will use them to ensure
#Covid
secure workplaces are just that and it's unbelievable they haven't."
@LenMcCluskey
on
@BBCr4today
I wouldn't be in this house without growing up with a Dad involved in an industrial dispute...In Liverpool we have a healthy suspicion of the state. We know striking workers have been targeted with state violence.
Powerful intervention by
@DanCardenMP
#SpyCopsBill
#CHISBill
#NoDealNoWay
@SteveT_Unite
challenges the prime minister to join him visiting workplaces to see for himself the catastrophic impact of a no deal Brexit
#TUC2019
Why does the
@GOVUK
want to take money from pensioners and not billionaires? We have 1 million workers and 100,000 pensioners as members - none of us want to see 'austerity mark 2'.
💥 Tax the wealthy
💥 Invest in public services
💥 Stop the Winter Fuel Payment cut
Fantastic news that Tracey Scholes has won her appeal for unfair dismissal. "It's appalling that Tracey was put through this ordeal when a negotiated outcome was always available. Employers must understand that
@unitetheunion
will defend members'
#JobsPayCondtions
":
@UniteSharon
BREAKING: Tesco Christmas strikes suspended as Unite members vote on improved pay offer.
"Tesco’s improved offer shows what can be achieved by our members standing together."
@UniteSharon
“This strike isn’t just about pay - it is to save the NHS. The NHS is crumbling, we can’t recruit and retain staff as pay is so low.
It has got so bad that we have had to open a food bank in my ambulance station.” Jason, a paramedic
Solidarity with our brave members at
@British_Airways
cargo who walked out at midnight on strike for 9 days against BA’s cruel cuts and brutal
#fireandrehire
tactics.
Please send your messages of support for them today, and over the next few days.
#BACargoStrike
#BABetrayal
“Coventry Labour council has time and again totally misrepresented the union’s claims for its bin drivers...If we have to escalate, we will escalate and I personally will be getting involved…. our wallet is closed to bad employers.”
@UniteSharon
9 weeks of strike action suspended at Barnoldswick as Unite members consider landmark deal to save 350 jobs.
“This workforce, their union and community have battled long and hard for a brighter future and there is now very real hope" –
@SteveT_Unite
Engineers employed by
@weetabix
begin strike action this week against the company’s plans for an extensive
#FireAndRehire
programme which will rob workers of up to £5,000 a year in wages.
Still the nation's favourite?
#EndFireAndRehire
Unite has launched a national campaign to defend the
#WinterFuelPayment
. If enough of us take action we can change the government’s plans and help all our pensioners keep warm this winter.
Join our campaign and defend the
#winterfuel
payment - sign now 👉
#NeverForget
Can you help
@Auschwitzmuseum
reach 1 million followers for
#Auschwitz75
on 27 January 2020?
Pls RT, spread the word, get your family and friends to follow
the account where every day people can learn about the history of
#Auschwitz75
A 1% wealth tax on the richest 1% would raise £25bn every year.
"Why is it so difficult to have a
#wealthtax
? Surely now is the time for a visionary approach from the Government rather than going down the route of austerity mark two?"
@UniteSharon
🗣️ All out to defend the
#WinterFuel
Payment.
🪧 Join us in Westminster at noon on Monday 7th October. Meet at the George V statue, Abingdon St, SW1P 3JY.
Message is clear:
@UKLabour
must fully reinstate the
#WinterFuelAllowance
with immediate effect.
"I joined our members on the picket at Woolwich Ferry as they prepare to escalate the campaign demanding fair pay, permanent jobs and an end to victimisation. My priority is to defend the jobs, pay and conditions of our members, that is exactly what I'll be doing."
@UniteSharon
Unite gives important Labour policy document 'thumbs down'
Britain's leading trade union today refused to give its backing to an important Labour document for government at the National Policy Forum gathering in Nottingham. 1/5
“Their [Felixstowe Port] profits are up 28%. It’s the biggest amount of profit they have ever made in their history. And they want to say to the workers, who made them that profit, you have to take a pay cut. I think that is abhorrent.”
@UniteSharon
speaking on
@LBC
.
.
@peoplesvote_uk
we're reading a lot about your poll of our members and would be interested to see it, but can't find it on your site and you've not tweeted any links to it. Can you send us the link please so we can see the findings for ourselves? Thanks.
“More workers are joining unions because they can see it’s the only way to fight back against attacks on living standards.
“The system is rigged in favour of profiteering corporates who get fat by driving up inflation & holding down wages.”
@UniteSharon
"The government’s
#winterfuel
policy needs to be reversed. Picking the pockets of pensioners is not a tough choice - it is a mistake."
@UniteSharon
It is not too late for
@UKLabour
to reverse its decision.
Join Unite's campaign here 👉
BREAKING: Unite's
#NHS
England members reject government’s pay award by 90% as campaign of action builds for
#FairPay
“With the cost of living soaring and tax hikes on the way, Unite is determined to ensure the government thinks again."
@UniteSharon
Unite Rules Conference votes overwhelmingly to stay affiliated to Labour but General Secretary Sharon Graham puts Keir Starmer on notice, he must deliver on jobs, pay and conditions if he wins power at the next election.
📢All out to defend the Winter Fuel Payment
Monday 7th October, 12 noon, Houses of Parliament. Meet George V statue, Abingdon St, SW1P 3JY
As the campaign continues to grow our demand to
@UKLabour
is clear - fully reinstate the winter fuel allowance with immediate effect.
“Make no mistake, we are now involved in a fight to save our
#NHS
. Lives lost, experience lost, staff exhausted, the NHS is on its knees. Stephen Barclay says a decent pay rise is unaffordable - wake up Mr Barclay we can't afford not to.”
@UniteSharon
The Port of Felixstowe has the cash to give dockers a real wage rise. Not a pay cut. But it’s doled out £100m to shareholders instead. Dockers on strike to defend.
Support their fight ✊🏼
#JobsPayConditions
#DockersDemandBetter
#SupporttheStrike
Unite vows to confront head-on any further attacks on the right to strike after government threats.
@UniteSharon
: "If you force our legitimate activities outside of the law, then don’t expect us to play by the rules."
Coventry bin drivers to march on council as Unite reveals zero attendance from councillors in 25 hours of negotiations.
"Coventry council’s leadership is showing nothing but disrespect for this workforce and the people of this city."
@UniteSharon
“No other employer has threatened to effectively ‘fire and rehire’ its entire workforce. BA has paid billions to shareholders and taking taxpayers’ money. This is nothing more than a cynical act of corporate greed...”
@LenMcCluskey
#BAbetrayal
The
@UKLabour
leadership chose to tax pensioners and not the super-rich.
@UniteSharon
tells
@NickFerrariLBC
it was, 'the wrong choice and they need to reverse it'.
Agree? Share and tell the government to think again 💥
'How could they make a choice to cut £300 off pensioners, and not do something around a wealth tax for the richest?'
Labour 'needs to reverse' their 'cruel and wrong' decision on winter fuel credit, Unite the Union's
@UniteSharon
tells
@NickFerrariLBC
.
“This judgment is a game changer. It means employers cannot ignore legally established collective bargaining rights just because they choose to ignore them. Every worker should now realise that it’s in their interest to be a union member.”
@UniteSharon
One of our nurse members on the frontline lost a colleague today to
#coronavirus
. She got in touch because she wants
@MattHancock
to fully understand the
#PPE
situation. So do we.
So this is a thread using her words 1/5
🚨 Labour must tax richest Brits instead of 'pick pocketing' pensioners
💬 "I'm calling for
@UKLabour
to change course and to look at introducing a
#WealthTax
on one side, and on the other side borrow to invest for British industry."
@UniteSharon
Following on from the statements driven and endorsed by Unite, including at the TUC General Council on 18 October, and due to the ongoing escalation of violence, Unite calls for an immediate unconditional ceasefire by all parties in Israel and Gaza.
🚨Breaking: “This is an important win for Unite members. By standing together our members at National Express secured an above inflation pay offer.”
@UniteSharon
"The automotive industry will always have the support of a Labour government ... we will provide the necessary support to protect the sector and jobs" >>
#Solidarity
message from
@johnmcdonnellMP
for
#Ford
workers and the automotive industry
#BackBridgend
Keir Starmer &
@UKLabour
talk of tough choices. So what ‘tough choice' would you make?
✅ Tax the poor and vulnerable?
✅ Tax the rich and powerful?
Support Unite’s call for a tax on the wealthiest 1%? Share ♻️ & comment 📢
Why are we making the choice to pit pensioners against workers?
I'm calling on
@UKLabour
to change course and look at introducing a
#WealthTax
and borrow to invest for British industry. ⤵️
It's 50yrs since the sewing machinist's strike at Ford, Dagenham which helped secure the Equal Pay Act. Today, Unite welcomes progress for women’s equality, but remains concerned at continuing discrimination, unequal pay and the under-representation of women in leadership
Britain’s biggest trades unions have warned
@BorisJohnson
they will not recommend a return to work for their three million members until the government and employers agree a nationwide health and safety revolution as a result of the
#Covid19
pandemic.
🚨 SUPPORT THE STRIKE 🚨
💙
#SAVEOURNHS
💙
✊🏼 Share a message of solidarity to all NHS workers
✍🏼 Sign the petition to Rishi Sunak
🚑 Double click for Fair
#NHSPay
now
🔄 Share this graphic
🪧 Visit a picket line
🙏
"The
@UKLabour
sacking of
@SamTarry
for supporting working people on strike, against cuts to their jobs and pay, is another insult to the trade union movement. Quite frankly it would be laughable if it were not so serious."
@UniteSharon