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Edmund Heery

Edmund Heery

@edpenarth.bsky.social

760 followers 1.1K following 67 posts

Retired academic - industrial relations. Interested in all things related to work and employment. Researching the Living Wage.

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Edmund Heery @edpenarth.bsky.social · 17h

Launch of Living Wage Week this morning at the Norwegian Church in Cardiff Bay. David Nash doing the honours

Edmund Heery @edpenarth.bsky.social · 7d

Taking place in Cardiff this afternoon as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science - Running a Local Campaign on Fair, Local and Good Quality Jobs

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10d

If you're a member of the National Trust remember to vote for council members by midnight tonight.

Use the Quick Vote option.

Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them

Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand

secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...

Welcome to the National Trust 2025 voting website, hosted by independent voting service provider Civica Election Services.

secure.cesvotes.com

Edmund Heery @edpenarth.bsky.social · 20d

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Real living wage to rise by almost 7% in boost for low-paid UK workers

Hourly rate to increase in April by 95p to £14.80 in London and by 85p to £13.45 for the rest of the country

www.theguardian.com

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Ethical Pixels® @ethicalpixels.com · Sep 11

📢 Preston City Council has launched a grant scheme to help local SMEs cover the fee for Living Wage Foundation accreditation. If you're a Preston-based SME, check your eligibility and apply here:
🔗 www.preston.gov.uk/article/1110...

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Cardiff Business School @cu-cardiffbusiness.bsky.social · Aug 27

💼Job opportunity at Cardiff Business School

Research Associate - Nuffield Foundation Research Project

📅Deadline for applications: Wednesday 10 September

More information on the project👇
nuffieldfoundation.org/project/musc...

Apply here👇
jobs.ac.uk/job/DOH575/r...

Edmund Heery @edpenarth.bsky.social · Aug 18

Just published as an open access paper by IRJ. An overview of political devolution in the UK and its effects on industrial relations

Edmund Heery @edpenarth.bsky.social · Aug 18

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Devolution and Industrial Relations: An Overview

This article presents an overview of how industrial relations have been shaped by constitutional devolution across the United Kingdom. It shows that the devolved national governments in Scotland, Wal...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Edmund Heery @edpenarth.bsky.social · Aug 18

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Devolution and Industrial Relations: An Overview

This article presents an overview of how industrial relations have been shaped by constitutional devolution across the United Kingdom. It shows that the devolved national governments in Scotland, Wal...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Living Wage Scotland @livingwagescotland.bsky.social · Aug 8

Work with us!
We're on the lookout for a Living Wage Projects Officer who brings experience in employer or business engagement, excels in communication and persuasion, and thrives in collaborative environments.
Find out more here: shorturl.at/oZUE6
#LivingWage #Scotland #Glasgow

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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · Nov 25

Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵

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Will Forrest @wcmforrest.bsky.social · Jan 29

Once again, we’re having to fight to stop music being the first thing an organisation cuts when it has money problems. Please sign this petition - many people have benefitted from the work of Cardiff University’s School of Music, and not just those who have taught and studied there (incl. me).

Sign the Petition

SAVE CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC

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Tony Dundon @tonydundon.bsky.social · Feb 5

Very sad. Great loss to labour and sociology www.ktvu.com/news/uc-berk...

UC Berkeley professor emeritus killed in Oakland hit-and-run crash

A UC Berkeley professor emeritus was killed in a deadly hit-and-run crash in Oakland on Monday.

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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · Nov 14

Welcome new followers. My book, Liverpool and the Un-Making of Britain, is out February next year. Here are the book's epigraphs, one by the great Liverpool historian Tony Lane, another by the wonderful contemporary poet @joriegraham.bsky.social. Pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/liverpo...

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Edmund Heery @edpenarth.bsky.social · Mar 27

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Major UK investors join push for retail giants to pay workers ‘real living wage’

Axa and Scottish Widows back ShareAction campaign for chains such as Next to pay at least £12.60 an hour

www.theguardian.com

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Apr 3

In all the tariff excitement I forgot my paperback is out today.

It's an Economist and FT Book of the year!

Buy it before a global depression means we all have to use books to fuel rudimentary fires!

www.amazon.co.uk/Failed-State...

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David Spencer @davidaspencer.bsky.social · Jul 23

I have a new article out in Ecological Economics (open access):
“Keynes as a post-growth economist” - on Keynes's long-run vision of the economy, its lessons for modern economics debates and the limits of "Green Keynesianism"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Edmund Heery @edpenarth.bsky.social · Jun 3

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Sign the Petition

Halt the Installation of the Aqua Park at Cosmeston Lakes Country Park, Penarth

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · May 13

In Britain, the fast-rising minimum wage is catching up with the bottom rungs of white-collar work. In fact, it appears that a rising number of people who earn annual salaries & don't work in low-paid sectors are now being paid below the legal minimum... www.ft.com/content/5f69...

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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · May 1

Cardiff University strikes called off as job cuts paused

Cardiff University strikes called off as job cuts paused

The union warned of a "summer of chaos" if the university did not back down on its proposed cuts.

Edmund Heery @edpenarth.bsky.social · Apr 29

Latest contribution to Welsh economic history by my brilliant colleague, Leon Gooberman. Published by University of Wales Press
www.uwp.co.uk/book/waging-...

Waging War and Building Peace | UWP

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · Apr 26

Thousands of people marched through the streets of Barry today in support of Welsh independence

Thousand join latest march for independence in Barry

Thousands of people marched through the streets of Barry on Saturday in support of Welsh independence. South Wales Police estimated that over six thousand people followed the circular route from the t...

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John Whitfield @johnwhitfield.bsky.social · Apr 24

UK universities should be advising students and staff travelling to the US on social media use, what border staff are entitled to seize or search, what to do if detained, and how to keep US colleagues safe, says @petraboynton.bsky.social www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

A safety manual for academics visiting America - Research Professional News

Petra Boynton looks at what advice UK universities should give US-bound researchers and students

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · Apr 19

Just 850 more signatures will bring us to 100,000 and trigger a debate in parliament. Plz share widely - I’m holding my breath! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Petition: Ban driven grouse shooting

Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; we think grouse shooting is economically insignifi...

petition.parliament.uk

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Living Wage Movement Aotearoa New Zealand @livingwageaotearoa.bsky.social · Apr 17

“ITUC welcomes new ILO living wage programme

In a step towards ending the global scandal of poverty pay, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has launched a new programme that puts the principle of a living wage at the heart of its support to countries.”

#LivingWage

ITUC welcomes new ILO living wage programme

In a step towards ending the global scandal of poverty pay, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has launched a new programme that puts the principle of a living wage at the heart of its suppor...

www.ituc-csi.org

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · Apr 11

Union members at Cardiff University have announced plans for a marking and assessment boycott on top of strike action in response to hundreds of academic jobs being axed. @julietterowsell.bsky.social reports
#AcademicSky

Cardiff union goes ‘nuclear’ with marking boycott plus strikes

University and College Union disputes institution’s claim to have significant cut job cuts figure

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Andy Hodder @hodderandy.bsky.social · Apr 10

Miguel Martinez Lucio (@workequalities.bsky.social) and I have a new edited text out this month on how workplace representation in the UK has changed in recent years. Please order for your libraries bookstore.emerald.com/focusing-or-...

The book cover image of Focusing or Fragmenting Representation at Work?
Specialist Trade Union Representation in the United Kingdom. The book is edited by Andy Hodder and Miguel Martínez Lucio, published by Emerald and out this month.

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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · Apr 7

New paper in HRMJ: Unions help make remote work more fair - based on research in the US, Canada, and Germany: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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markingall.bsky.social @markingall.bsky.social · Apr 5

'Elbows Up, Britain': US products to boycott: Coca-Cola, Pepsi, McDonald’s, Burger King, Nike, Converse, Levi’s; and tech giants like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Netflix – some of which are harder to avoid than others.

bylinetimes.com/2025/04/02/e...

'Elbows Up, Britain': Canada's Boycott of American Goods Spreads to the UK

How British voters could hold the cards when it comes to resisting President Trump's global trade war

bylinetimes.com

Edmund Heery @edpenarth.bsky.social · Apr 3

This is really good if anyone fancies reading it

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Apr 3

In all the tariff excitement I forgot my paperback is out today.

It's an Economist and FT Book of the year!

Buy it before a global depression means we all have to use books to fuel rudimentary fires!

www.amazon.co.uk/Failed-State...