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Gawain Little
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General Secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions. @gftu.bsky.social
gftu.org.uk
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Our GS, @gawainlittle.bsky.social , has just sent the below congratulations letter to Dave Calfe on his election as @aslefunion.bsky.social general secretary.

Dave's election follows the retirement of @mickwhelanaslef.bsky.social, a long time friend to #GFTU.

We wish them both good luck.
letter reads: Dear Dave I am writing to you to offer congratulations on your election as General Secretary of ASLEF on behalf of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU). We have a long and proud history working closely with ASLEF, including through our partnership with Strike Map. We know the vital role that your union plays with the transport sector, at a critical time for transport worker through the development of Great British Railways (GBR). If you need anything from the GFTU, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us. Good luck and congratulations again. You will be excellent. In solidarity Gawain Little General Secretary General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU)
November 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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October 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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🚩 Hear our response to the #RiseOfTheFarRight

Virtual Town Hall | 24 Nov, 5pm | @gftu.org.uk's @gawainlittle.bsky.social & @sarahwoolley1.bsky.social

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Promotional poster for a virtual town hall event for Friends of GFTU Educational Trust on 24 November, featuring Sarah Woolley and Gawain Little.
October 31, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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🌐 Our Virtual Town Hall is THE place for ideas to collide, voices to be heard, and where the future of union learning takes shape.

Join the discussion + Q&A with @gftu.org.uk's @gawainlittle.bsky.social & @sarahwoolley1.bsky.social

💻 Join from anywhere - https://t.co/KYdwHJhqsl

#GFTUET #Giftmas
Promotional image for a Virtual Town Hall event on 24 November, featuring Sarah Woolley and Gawain Little. The GFTU Educational Trust logo is displayed in the top left corner. The event title 'Virtual Town Hall' is centered in stylized text.
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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BREAKING 🚨| @unitetheunion.bsky.social has affiliated to #StrikeMap.

On affiliating to Strike Map, @unitesharon.bsky.social said, "There is power in a union and Strike Map is building solidarity across the trade union movement."

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Members of Unite the Union holding a banner at a public demonstration. The banner reads 'Support the affiliates to Strike Map' and includes contact information for affiliating with the union.
October 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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andymcdonaldmp.bsky.social
The Employment Rights Bill is an important milestone but must be part of a wider strategy to raise living standards and restore labour's share of wealth. Trade unions are central to that, providing the infrastructure through which workers can secure better pay, safer workplaces and a stronger voice.
October 23, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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andymcdonaldmp.bsky.social
The most urgent task of the Labour government is clear: raising living standards. Trade unions are central to that.

They are the vehicle through which better pay, safer working conditions, and fairer working workplaces can be achieved. Equipping them effectively is fundamental.
October 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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📢 Session announcement

How Do We Bring Political Economy Into Our Fights? | @gawainlittle.bsky.social, @gftu.org.uk

Join our inaugural Political Economy Conference 👉 http://gftuet.org.uk/courses/political-economy-conference

🚨 Limited spaces

#GFTUET #PoliticalEconomy #TradeUnions #Workers #GFTU
Promotional poster for the GFTU Political Economy Conference 2025, featuring the title 'How do we bring political economy into our fights?' and an image of the speaker, Gawain Little.
October 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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sif-tradeunion.bsky.social
SIF Executive Board member, Dr Orlando Mardner, has written a powerful article as we mark Black History Month. In his own words he describes his lived experiences of being a black security worker.

You can read more here 👇
sif.org.uk/being-black-...
October 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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🚨 Join our first-ever Virtual Town Hall

✅ Speak with @gftu.org.uk's @gawainlittle.bsky.social & @sarahwoolley1.bsky.social, receive updates on our work + live Q+A.

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Promotional poster for a town hall event on 24 November featuring Sarah Woolley and Gawain Little from the GFTU. Details at gftuet.org.uk/friends.
October 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Join us in October🍂

🔴 Empowering Workers | @ieruk.bsky.social
🔴 Politics and Parliament | @gawainlittle.bsky.social
🔴 Political Economy International School sessions 1 & 2
🔴 YMDW

Sign up before places run out: https://gftuet.org.uk/education

#GFTUET
Promotional poster for the GFTU Educational Programme 2025-26, for October, featuring a schedule of courses and guest speakers. Events include lectures on trade unions, politics in the labor movement, new trade order, militarisation, and arms industry. The poster includes images of several speakers and the GFTU Educational Trust logo at the top. Instructions for registration are provided at the bottom.
September 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Our general secretary, @gawainlittle.bsky.social , and our president, @sarahwoolley1.bsky.social , at this afternoon's ¡Viva la Solidaridad! Stand with Latin America Against Trump hosted by Arise festival.

#GFTU #InternationalSolidarity #Solidarity
September 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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strikemap.org
BREAKING 🚨 | 30 trade unions have written to Hull Trains warning their actions could damage safety culture across the rail industry.

Our movement is united in rejecting attacks on union members.

We stand with all @aslefunion.bsky.social members.

Read & share the letter👇

#StrikeMap
We are writing to you in support of ASLEF members in relation to your vile victimisation of a trade union member who raised health and safety concerns with you. After 73 days of action, which have seen growing support for the unfairly victimised trade union member, we are urging you to reinstate the member affected and to end this dispute now. Trade union activity, including raising vital health and safety concerns, is fundamental to the role of effective trade unions in the workplace.The actions of Hull Trains management could damage safety culture across the rail industry. Today, on 29 August, we stand in solidarity and will be encouraging our members to join the solidarity rally. We will continue to use the full power and ‘weight’ of our movement to make sure Hull Trains is held to account for these actions. We urge you to reinstate the colleague affected and ensure an end to escalating levels of action and wider campaigning from our whole movement. We look forward to you doing the right thing by your staff, commuters who use your trains, and the wider community. We stand in solidarity with all trade union members at Hull Trains. Yours Sincerely
August 29, 2025 at 7:03 AM
gawainlittle.bsky.social
The General Federation of Trade Unions @gftu.org.uk will be giving its full support to this solidarity rally. Victory to the Hull Trains strikers!
strikemap.org Strike Map @strikemap.org · Aug 21
Join the @aslefunion.bsky.social #solidarity rally in Hull, next Friday.

After 73 days of action, let's make this huge and show Hull Trains union busting is disgusting 🤮.

🪧🗣️Bring your union banners & placards.

10.30am | Hull Paragon Station

RSVP: bit.ly/HullASLEF

#StrikeMap
Promotional poster for a Solidarity Rally with Hull Trains staff on Friday, August 29th at 10:30, featuring several individuals in casual attire and a person in a safety vest standing behind a banner of ASLEF, the train drivers' union.
August 22, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Our general secretary, @gawainlittle.bsky.social , has sent this letter to Donna Wiggett, congratulating her on her recent election as general secretary of our affiliate, @aepsychologists.bsky.social.

#GFTU #Solidarity
Dear Donna I am writing to you to offer congratulations on your election as General Secretary of the Association of Educational Psychologists (AEP) on behalf of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU). We have a long and proud history working closely with the AEP, most recently supporting the historic industrial action taken by all members. We know the vital role that Educational Psychologists play within our whole society, from supporting those affected by trauma, to supporting the most vulnerable in our communities. We look forward to welcoming you at the next GFTU executive meeting and continuing our close working relationship together. If you need anything from the GFTU, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us. Good luck and congratulations again, you will be excellent. In solidarity
June 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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And that’s a wrap 🎬

A fantastic two days with education officers from trade unions, at Quorn Grange .

✊Activist education and development
🖥️ @ericblanc.bsky.social on ‘Worker to Worker’ trainings
🍿Showing of the film ‘UNION’
👀Sneak peak at our new programme

#GFTUET #GFTU #TUed #Education
June 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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🚨BREAKING | CODIR has condemned Israel's military attack on Iran as outrageous.

"This action is not only a provocation in the Middle East but a threat to world peace.” - @gawainlittle.bsky.social.

Read the full press release: gftu.org.uk/codir-condem...

#GFTU #CODIR
June 13, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Our GS, @gawainlittle.bsky.social, addressing the #BGCM2025 at the end of #Day2.

"The measure of our trade unionism is the #Solidarity we show to disputes and I am proud that GFTU has been at the forefront of coordinating solidarity from other unions for #BirminghamBinStrike".

#BGCM #GFTU
May 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Our GS, @gawainlittle.bsky.social, along with many other leaders has signed the below letter to Colombian governmental authorities over recent threats against a number of trade unionists who have worked with @jfcolombia.bsky.social.

We support organised labour in Colombia and offer #Solidarity.
June 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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strikemap.org
“An attack on low paid workers is an attack on all of us."

Billy and John, striking bin workers, addressing yesterday's @pcsunion.bsky.social conference in #Brighton

The solidarity tour continues. Victory to the bin workers!

#BirminghamBinStrike #StrikeMap

youtu.be/BAwf5zTCfjE
“The strike goes on. An attack on low paid workers is an attack on all of us."
YouTube video by Strike Map
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May 22, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Our GS, @gawainlittle.bsky.social , has joined the Birminham bin strikers this morning. The strike is solid with over 100 on the picket and nothing moving in and out.

🌹Solidarity to the #BirminghamBinStrikers

#BirminghamBinStrike #BrumBinStrike #StrikeMap
May 21, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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"This dispute isn't just about one group of workers, which is why it's so vitally important that the whole movement rallies behind them."

🎧Listen to @sarahwoolley1.bsky.social on why @bfawu.bsky.social have signed the letter to Angela Rayner and Cllr John Cotton.

#BirminghamBinStrike #StrikeMap
May 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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GFTU is proud to be a signatory to this letter in support of the #Birmingham Bin Strikers. Their dispute is crucial to the fight against cuts and to protect workers' standard of living. That is why the whole movement supports them.
#Solidarity #GFTU @unitetheunion.bsky.social @gftu.org.uk
strikemap.org Strike Map @strikemap.org · May 16
BREAKING 🚨| 25 unions, representing over 1 million workers, have written to Angela Rayner MP and Cllr John Cotton to stop cuts in #Birmingham.

The movement is behind the #BirminghamBinStrikers

Read the the letter in full: bit.ly/BrumBinStrik...

#StrikeMap #BrumBinStrike
The full text of this letter can be read by clicking the link in the post: https://bit.ly/BrumBinStrikeLetter The full text of this letter can be read by clicking the link in the post: https://bit.ly/BrumBinStrikeLetter The full text of this letter can be read by clicking the link in the post: https://bit.ly/BrumBinStrikeLetter
May 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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strikemap.org
BREAKING 🚨| 25 unions, representing over 1 million workers, have written to Angela Rayner MP and Cllr John Cotton to stop cuts in #Birmingham.

The movement is behind the #BirminghamBinStrikers

Read the the letter in full: bit.ly/BrumBinStrik...

#StrikeMap #BrumBinStrike
The full text of this letter can be read by clicking the link in the post: https://bit.ly/BrumBinStrikeLetter The full text of this letter can be read by clicking the link in the post: https://bit.ly/BrumBinStrikeLetter The full text of this letter can be read by clicking the link in the post: https://bit.ly/BrumBinStrikeLetter
May 16, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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"Every time Farage votes against improving our rights at work and in favour of deregulation and privatisation, they're about dividing communities, pitting worker against worker, while the rich get richer."

@gawainlittle.bsky.social at Tyne & Wear #MayDay.

#MayDay2025 #ReformUK #GFTU
May 6, 2025 at 10:28 AM