Kategobell
@kategobell.bsky.social
AGS, TUC, probably some other three letter acronyms
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➡️ Banning exploitative zero hours contracts
➡️ Sick pay for all from day one
➡️ Expanding paternity, parental & bereavement leave
➡️ Strengthening protections for pregnant women, whistle-blowers and victims of sexual harassment
➡️ Making flexible working the default
➡️ Repealing Tory anti-union laws
➡️ Sick pay for all from day one
➡️ Expanding paternity, parental & bereavement leave
➡️ Strengthening protections for pregnant women, whistle-blowers and victims of sexual harassment
➡️ Making flexible working the default
➡️ Repealing Tory anti-union laws
December 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
➡️ Banning exploitative zero hours contracts
➡️ Sick pay for all from day one
➡️ Expanding paternity, parental & bereavement leave
➡️ Strengthening protections for pregnant women, whistle-blowers and victims of sexual harassment
➡️ Making flexible working the default
➡️ Repealing Tory anti-union laws
➡️ Sick pay for all from day one
➡️ Expanding paternity, parental & bereavement leave
➡️ Strengthening protections for pregnant women, whistle-blowers and victims of sexual harassment
➡️ Making flexible working the default
➡️ Repealing Tory anti-union laws
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🚨BREAKING: Employment Rights Bill passes in the House of Lords and will become law.
This is an historic day for working people across the country, and the trade unions who represent them.
This is an historic day for working people across the country, and the trade unions who represent them.
December 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
🚨BREAKING: Employment Rights Bill passes in the House of Lords and will become law.
This is an historic day for working people across the country, and the trade unions who represent them.
This is an historic day for working people across the country, and the trade unions who represent them.
Best Christmas present ever. So many amazing people have worked to get this over the line, and deliver the biggest upgrade to workers rights I. A generation. A lot more to do, but a very good day. www.tuc.org.uk/news/tuc-hai...
December 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Best Christmas present ever. So many amazing people have worked to get this over the line, and deliver the biggest upgrade to workers rights I. A generation. A lot more to do, but a very good day. www.tuc.org.uk/news/tuc-hai...
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"I don't think anyone should take lectures from a government that presided over a decade and a half of austerity about the state of our public services"
#BBCQT
#BBCQT
November 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
"I don't think anyone should take lectures from a government that presided over a decade and a half of austerity about the state of our public services"
#BBCQT
#BBCQT
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@tuc.org.uk joins @ituc.bsky.social in condemning the 'violent Israeli raid' on PGFTU offices in Nablus
October 17, 2025 at 8:55 AM
@tuc.org.uk joins @ituc.bsky.social in condemning the 'violent Israeli raid' on PGFTU offices in Nablus
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A much needed corrective by @chrisgiles.ft.com to the "welfare is out of control" narrative, drawing on research by my colleague @benbgeiger.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/ee67...
www.ft.com/content/ee67...
No need for a moral panic about the welfare system
It’s far from perfect, but the UK’s spending is broadly controlled and employment is high
www.ft.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
A much needed corrective by @chrisgiles.ft.com to the "welfare is out of control" narrative, drawing on research by my colleague @benbgeiger.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/ee67...
www.ft.com/content/ee67...
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TikTok is getting rid of the London staff who keep you safe from harmful, misleading and illegal content. When did they announce the job cuts? Eight days before those employees were due to vote on unionising.
We’ve signed an open letter with @tuc.org.uk and @cwunews.bsky.social:
We’ve signed an open letter with @tuc.org.uk and @cwunews.bsky.social:
October 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
TikTok is getting rid of the London staff who keep you safe from harmful, misleading and illegal content. When did they announce the job cuts? Eight days before those employees were due to vote on unionising.
We’ve signed an open letter with @tuc.org.uk and @cwunews.bsky.social:
We’ve signed an open letter with @tuc.org.uk and @cwunews.bsky.social:
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Hundreds of content moderators are being laid off by TikTok.
Now they're unionising and speaking out.
@cwunews.bsky.social
Now they're unionising and speaking out.
@cwunews.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Hundreds of content moderators are being laid off by TikTok.
Now they're unionising and speaking out.
@cwunews.bsky.social
Now they're unionising and speaking out.
@cwunews.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The whole of our Congress showing solidarity with Palestine after powerful speech from Shaher Saed, leader of the Palestinian trade union movement
September 10, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The whole of our Congress showing solidarity with Palestine after powerful speech from Shaher Saed, leader of the Palestinian trade union movement
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Make no mistake, let there be no doubt.
We were elected to deliver this Employment Rights Bill and that is what we will do.
We won’t accept any watering down by the Lords.
In full.
No ifs, no buts.
We were elected to deliver this Employment Rights Bill and that is what we will do.
We won’t accept any watering down by the Lords.
In full.
No ifs, no buts.
September 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Make no mistake, let there be no doubt.
We were elected to deliver this Employment Rights Bill and that is what we will do.
We won’t accept any watering down by the Lords.
In full.
No ifs, no buts.
We were elected to deliver this Employment Rights Bill and that is what we will do.
We won’t accept any watering down by the Lords.
In full.
No ifs, no buts.
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New @tuc.org.uk report calls for pro-worker AI innovation strategy www.tuc.org.uk/research-ana...
Building a pro-worker AI innovation strategy
A pro-worker AI innovation strategy for the UK should use every lever to shape technology towards good jobs, resilient public services and to drive socially useful innovation – for now and the future,...
www.tuc.org.uk
August 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
New @tuc.org.uk report calls for pro-worker AI innovation strategy www.tuc.org.uk/research-ana...
Our new report on how we can shape the AI that gets developed and how it came be used, covered here www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Half of UK adults worry that AI will take or alter their job, poll finds
The TUC calls for a new approach to technology and greater input from workers on how it is deployed
www.theguardian.com
August 27, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Our new report on how we can shape the AI that gets developed and how it came be used, covered here www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Appalled to read this. A critical funder of UK social and fiscal policy research has just been summarily dumped, along with its key staff and trustees. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
To all who think capitalism can drive progressive change, it won’t – and here’s the shocking proof | Polly Toynbee
Asset manager Aberdeen’s surprise cut to funding research into inequality has left those that used its grants for good work reeling, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
July 1, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Appalled to read this. A critical funder of UK social and fiscal policy research has just been summarily dumped, along with its key staff and trustees. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Surprised & saddened to see this happen to Abrdn Financial Fairness Trust - they have supported vital work on debt, pensions, tax & much else.
www.thetimes.com/article/7d69...
www.thetimes.com/article/7d69...
Aberdeen under fire after ousting financial charity’s board
The chief executive and all ten independent trustees of Abrdn Financial Fairness Trust were removed in shift away from funding research
www.thetimes.com
June 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Surprised & saddened to see this happen to Abrdn Financial Fairness Trust - they have supported vital work on debt, pensions, tax & much else.
www.thetimes.com/article/7d69...
www.thetimes.com/article/7d69...
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BREAKING 🚨 | Unions call for Thames Water to be brought into full public ownership.
@unitetheunion.bsky.social @unison.org.uk @gmb.org.uk
@unitetheunion.bsky.social @unison.org.uk @gmb.org.uk
June 20, 2025 at 12:12 PM
BREAKING 🚨 | Unions call for Thames Water to be brought into full public ownership.
@unitetheunion.bsky.social @unison.org.uk @gmb.org.uk
@unitetheunion.bsky.social @unison.org.uk @gmb.org.uk
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Rebuilding through glass: how better windows could spark a UK industry revival @tuc.org.uk www.tuc.org.uk/blogs/rebuil...
Rebuilding through glass: how better windows could spark a UK industry revival
It’s time the UK got serious about windows. Yes, windows. The kind millions of us peer out of every day to check if it’s raining again. But beyond the drizzle, old and leaky windows are costing UK hou...
www.tuc.org.uk
June 20, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Rebuilding through glass: how better windows could spark a UK industry revival @tuc.org.uk www.tuc.org.uk/blogs/rebuil...
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Very interesting.
🆕 Formalising work, redistributing power: Lessons from Mexico’s outsourcing ban
Today on VoxDev w/ Alejandro Estefan (Notre Dame), Roberto Gerhard (STPS Mexico), Joseph Kaboski (Notre Dame), Illenin Kondo (Federal Reserve Bank Minneapolis) & Wei Qian (Haverford College): voxdev.org/topic/labour...
Today on VoxDev w/ Alejandro Estefan (Notre Dame), Roberto Gerhard (STPS Mexico), Joseph Kaboski (Notre Dame), Illenin Kondo (Federal Reserve Bank Minneapolis) & Wei Qian (Haverford College): voxdev.org/topic/labour...
Formalising work, redistributing power: Lessons from Mexico’s outsourcing ban
Evidence from Mexico suggests that carefully designed outsourcing regulation can significantly improve wages without reducing employment in developing countries.
voxdev.org
June 19, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Very interesting.
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Time to boost workers' data rights to shed a light on the algorithms that determine their work and pay.
UK Uber drivers’ earnings cut after secretive algorithm changes www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
UK Uber drivers’ earnings cut after secretive algorithm changes www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com
June 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Time to boost workers' data rights to shed a light on the algorithms that determine their work and pay.
UK Uber drivers’ earnings cut after secretive algorithm changes www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
UK Uber drivers’ earnings cut after secretive algorithm changes www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Shoulder to shoulder in Newcastle.
@drjogrady.bsky.social with @kategobell.bsky.social assistant general secretary @tuc.org.uk standing strong.
The whole movement has our back✊
@drjogrady.bsky.social with @kategobell.bsky.social assistant general secretary @tuc.org.uk standing strong.
The whole movement has our back✊
June 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Shoulder to shoulder in Newcastle.
@drjogrady.bsky.social with @kategobell.bsky.social assistant general secretary @tuc.org.uk standing strong.
The whole movement has our back✊
@drjogrady.bsky.social with @kategobell.bsky.social assistant general secretary @tuc.org.uk standing strong.
The whole movement has our back✊
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The TUC is proud to have supported this complaint at the International Labour Organisation. We have serious concerns about migrant workers in Saudi Arabia, including those involved in preparing for the 2034 World Cup.
Unions from 36 countries protest over treatment of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia
Trade unions from 36 countries have filed a complaint with the International Labour Organisation as development begins to scale up before the 2034 World Cup in Saudi Arabia
www.theguardian.com
June 5, 2025 at 9:07 AM
The TUC is proud to have supported this complaint at the International Labour Organisation. We have serious concerns about migrant workers in Saudi Arabia, including those involved in preparing for the 2034 World Cup.
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On this underfunding: an FOI sent by the TUC found that the government spent just £385m on the entire 18 months of the Test and Trace Support Payment Scheme.
For context, this isn’t even half of what it spent on Eat Out To Help Out, which lasted just a month.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
For context, this isn’t even half of what it spent on Eat Out To Help Out, which lasted just a month.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Tory decision to underfund Covid self-isolation support cost lives, inquiry hears
The UK spent much less than other countries, said the former NHS Test and Trace lead
www.independent.co.uk
May 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
On this underfunding: an FOI sent by the TUC found that the government spent just £385m on the entire 18 months of the Test and Trace Support Payment Scheme.
For context, this isn’t even half of what it spent on Eat Out To Help Out, which lasted just a month.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
For context, this isn’t even half of what it spent on Eat Out To Help Out, which lasted just a month.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Guess what: boosting workers' rights is popular www.theguardian.com/law/2025/apr...
Employment rights bill ‘improves Labour’s favourability among voters’
Polling for TUC suggests measures could lure voters back from Reform, Greens or independents, but finds low awareness
www.theguardian.com
April 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Guess what: boosting workers' rights is popular www.theguardian.com/law/2025/apr...