Kiri Tunks
@kiritunks.bsky.social
Socialist. Feminist. Organiser.
Co-founder & Director, Woman’s Place UK.
Another world is possible.
https://womansplaceuk.org/
WomansPlaceUK.bsky.social
Co-founder & Director, Woman’s Place UK.
Another world is possible.
https://womansplaceuk.org/
WomansPlaceUK.bsky.social
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#OtD 21 Dec 1916 Mexican-American strike leader, Emma Tenayuca, was born in San Antonio. Most famously, she led a successful strike of 12,000 pecan-shelling women in 1938 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9359...
December 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
#OtD 21 Dec 1916 Mexican-American strike leader, Emma Tenayuca, was born in San Antonio. Most famously, she led a successful strike of 12,000 pecan-shelling women in 1938 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9359...
Insightful 🧵on Government #VAWG strategy from @filiacharity.bsky.social - things to welcome and things to work for...
🧵 We welcome the long-awaited #VAWG strategy, published today.
It includes some promising initiatives, many of which were signalled ahead of today’s launch, and it is positive to see renewed focus on this national emergency.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
It includes some promising initiatives, many of which were signalled ahead of today’s launch, and it is positive to see renewed focus on this national emergency.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Freedom from violence and abuse: a cross-government strategy
This strategy sets out the government’s vision and actions for meeting its ambition to halve violence against women and girls in a decade.
www.gov.uk
December 19, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Insightful 🧵on Government #VAWG strategy from @filiacharity.bsky.social - things to welcome and things to work for...
Insightful 🧵on Government #VAWG strategy from @filiacharity.bsky.social - things to welcome and things to work for...
🧵 We welcome the long-awaited #VAWG strategy, published today.
It includes some promising initiatives, many of which were signalled ahead of today’s launch, and it is positive to see renewed focus on this national emergency.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
It includes some promising initiatives, many of which were signalled ahead of today’s launch, and it is positive to see renewed focus on this national emergency.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Freedom from violence and abuse: a cross-government strategy
This strategy sets out the government’s vision and actions for meeting its ambition to halve violence against women and girls in a decade.
www.gov.uk
December 19, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Insightful 🧵on Government #VAWG strategy from @filiacharity.bsky.social - things to welcome and things to work for...
👇👇❤️❤️👊👊
‘So we were drawing on the energy of women’s liberation but also the energy of the trade unionists who had started the modern campaign for equal pay with the Ford Dagenham strike...’
50 years since the Sex Discrimination Act by Susanna Rustin.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
50 years since the Sex Discrimination Act by Susanna Rustin.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
‘Pretty birds and silly moos’: the women behind the Sex Discrimination Act
In the 50 years since equal rights for women were enshrined in UK law, the campaigners have been reduced to caricatures, or forgotten. But their struggle is worth remembering
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:51 AM
👇👇❤️❤️👊👊
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Are you interested how the budget will impact women and gender equality? Join our discussion tomorrow at 10am online.
Tickets still available - get yours now 👇
www.wbg.org.uk/event/autumn...
Tickets still available - get yours now 👇
www.wbg.org.uk/event/autumn...
December 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Are you interested how the budget will impact women and gender equality? Join our discussion tomorrow at 10am online.
Tickets still available - get yours now 👇
www.wbg.org.uk/event/autumn...
Tickets still available - get yours now 👇
www.wbg.org.uk/event/autumn...
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#MVAWG accounts for at least 15.8% of all recorded crime, has been declared a national threat and the Gov't has committed to halving this within 10 years.
In Making Policy Work for Women, we made several recommendations to Gov't📑➡️ bit.ly/FiLiA-Making-Policy-Work-For-Women
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism
In Making Policy Work for Women, we made several recommendations to Gov't📑➡️ bit.ly/FiLiA-Making-Policy-Work-For-Women
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism
December 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
#MVAWG accounts for at least 15.8% of all recorded crime, has been declared a national threat and the Gov't has committed to halving this within 10 years.
In Making Policy Work for Women, we made several recommendations to Gov't📑➡️ bit.ly/FiLiA-Making-Policy-Work-For-Women
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism
In Making Policy Work for Women, we made several recommendations to Gov't📑➡️ bit.ly/FiLiA-Making-Policy-Work-For-Women
#16Days #16DaysOfActivism
Really looking forward to this. Spaces limited so book early! #UnionsForWomen #AnnieMills
Starved, Protested, Arrested: Unearthing Annie Mills at the Marx Memorial Library. Join us for a tour of the library & an archive workshop on this little-known activist of the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement.
🗓️ Wed 28th January 6pm
📍 Marx Memorial Library, London
🎟️ bit.ly/FiLiAAnnieMillsMML
🗓️ Wed 28th January 6pm
📍 Marx Memorial Library, London
🎟️ bit.ly/FiLiAAnnieMillsMML
December 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Really looking forward to this. Spaces limited so book early! #UnionsForWomen #AnnieMills
March TOGETHER on 28th March
London
Stand up to the Far-Right
For more info and updates see
@togetheralliance.bsky.social
#TogetherAlliance
London
Stand up to the Far-Right
For more info and updates see
@togetheralliance.bsky.social
#TogetherAlliance
December 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
March TOGETHER on 28th March
London
Stand up to the Far-Right
For more info and updates see
@togetheralliance.bsky.social
#TogetherAlliance
London
Stand up to the Far-Right
For more info and updates see
@togetheralliance.bsky.social
#TogetherAlliance
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Unity is stronger than division.
That’s why we’ve formed Together Alliance with 50+ organisations and thousands of individuals — all pushing back against the far right.
#Together we show where this country really stands.
Join us: togetheralliance.org.uk
That’s why we’ve formed Together Alliance with 50+ organisations and thousands of individuals — all pushing back against the far right.
#Together we show where this country really stands.
Join us: togetheralliance.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Unity is stronger than division.
That’s why we’ve formed Together Alliance with 50+ organisations and thousands of individuals — all pushing back against the far right.
#Together we show where this country really stands.
Join us: togetheralliance.org.uk
That’s why we’ve formed Together Alliance with 50+ organisations and thousands of individuals — all pushing back against the far right.
#Together we show where this country really stands.
Join us: togetheralliance.org.uk
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Read our round-up of union activity in the UK and from around the world, including recent Labour impacts on workers, more on the Birmingham bin strikes, and fashion brands exposed by Amnesty International.
www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...
www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...
December 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Read our round-up of union activity in the UK and from around the world, including recent Labour impacts on workers, more on the Birmingham bin strikes, and fashion brands exposed by Amnesty International.
www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...
www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...
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#VAWG is a trade union issue... ‘the trade union movement itself – still need to take the crisis of violence against women more seriously’.
@kiritunks.bsky.social of the FiLiA TU Women’s Network writes for @mstaronline.bsky.social for #IDEVAW & the #16Days
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/viol...
@kiritunks.bsky.social of the FiLiA TU Women’s Network writes for @mstaronline.bsky.social for #IDEVAW & the #16Days
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/viol...
Violence against women is a trade union issue
IT IS clear from a casual search that unions in Britain understand that violence against women is endemic. Many union websites provide easily accessible guidance, toolkits and model policies.
morningstaronline.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
#VAWG is a trade union issue... ‘the trade union movement itself – still need to take the crisis of violence against women more seriously’.
@kiritunks.bsky.social of the FiLiA TU Women’s Network writes for @mstaronline.bsky.social for #IDEVAW & the #16Days
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/viol...
@kiritunks.bsky.social of the FiLiA TU Women’s Network writes for @mstaronline.bsky.social for #IDEVAW & the #16Days
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/viol...
Good to see
@mstaronline.bsky.social
has a good cluster of articles to mark #16DaysOfActivism and the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. My contribution on why violence against women and girls is a trade union issue. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/viol... /1
@mstaronline.bsky.social
has a good cluster of articles to mark #16DaysOfActivism and the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. My contribution on why violence against women and girls is a trade union issue. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/viol... /1
Violence against women is a trade union issue
IT IS clear from a casual search that unions in Britain understand that violence against women is endemic. Many union websites provide easily accessible guidance, toolkits and model policies.
morningstaronline.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Good to see
@mstaronline.bsky.social
has a good cluster of articles to mark #16DaysOfActivism and the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. My contribution on why violence against women and girls is a trade union issue. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/viol... /1
@mstaronline.bsky.social
has a good cluster of articles to mark #16DaysOfActivism and the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. My contribution on why violence against women and girls is a trade union issue. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/viol... /1
Fabulous thread and photos from the
@filiacharity.bsky.social
parliamentary launch of FiLiA's excellent new report Making Policy work for Women. Link to report here t.co/Y7BufYXZgk
@filiacharity.bsky.social
parliamentary launch of FiLiA's excellent new report Making Policy work for Women. Link to report here t.co/Y7BufYXZgk
November 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Fabulous thread and photos from the
@filiacharity.bsky.social
parliamentary launch of FiLiA's excellent new report Making Policy work for Women. Link to report here t.co/Y7BufYXZgk
@filiacharity.bsky.social
parliamentary launch of FiLiA's excellent new report Making Policy work for Women. Link to report here t.co/Y7BufYXZgk
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The #FiLiA newsletter is out now, with an update on the next conference in #Blackpool, our event in Parliament, our new research project, a @filiahaguemums.bsky.social campaign and more!
🔗 mailchi.mp/filia/next-conference-in-blackpool-first-parliamentary-event-and-more
#Sisterhood & #Solidarity
🔗 mailchi.mp/filia/next-conference-in-blackpool-first-parliamentary-event-and-more
#Sisterhood & #Solidarity
November 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The #FiLiA newsletter is out now, with an update on the next conference in #Blackpool, our event in Parliament, our new research project, a @filiahaguemums.bsky.social campaign and more!
🔗 mailchi.mp/filia/next-conference-in-blackpool-first-parliamentary-event-and-more
#Sisterhood & #Solidarity
🔗 mailchi.mp/filia/next-conference-in-blackpool-first-parliamentary-event-and-more
#Sisterhood & #Solidarity
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Fantastic launch of the FiLiA Womens Assembly in Parliament today & report, Making Policy Work for Women.
Thanks to @tonia-antoniazzi.bsky.social for sponsoring us & all who came for the enthusiastic reception @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social
Read the report: bit.ly/FiLiA-Making-Policy-Work-For-Women
Thanks to @tonia-antoniazzi.bsky.social for sponsoring us & all who came for the enthusiastic reception @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social
Read the report: bit.ly/FiLiA-Making-Policy-Work-For-Women
November 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Fantastic launch of the FiLiA Womens Assembly in Parliament today & report, Making Policy Work for Women.
Thanks to @tonia-antoniazzi.bsky.social for sponsoring us & all who came for the enthusiastic reception @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social
Read the report: bit.ly/FiLiA-Making-Policy-Work-For-Women
Thanks to @tonia-antoniazzi.bsky.social for sponsoring us & all who came for the enthusiastic reception @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social
Read the report: bit.ly/FiLiA-Making-Policy-Work-For-Women
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RMT warns of widespread welfare failures leaving women transport workers without safe toilet access
Coinciding with UN World Toilet Day, RMT is highlighting inadequate welfare for provision for transport workers.
rmtunion.org/47ZiM2t
Coinciding with UN World Toilet Day, RMT is highlighting inadequate welfare for provision for transport workers.
rmtunion.org/47ZiM2t
RMT warns of widespread welfare failures leaving women transport workers without safe toilet access
RMT today exposed widespread failures in welfare provision for transport workers, with new survey evidence and frontline testimony showing that women in particular are being denied safe, clean and acc...
rmtunion.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:07 AM
RMT warns of widespread welfare failures leaving women transport workers without safe toilet access
Coinciding with UN World Toilet Day, RMT is highlighting inadequate welfare for provision for transport workers.
rmtunion.org/47ZiM2t
Coinciding with UN World Toilet Day, RMT is highlighting inadequate welfare for provision for transport workers.
rmtunion.org/47ZiM2t
Fighting for Women's Liberation in 2025
@mstaronline.bsky.social
Conference in Glasgow
Sunday 30th November, 12-4pm
Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/morning-st...
@mstaronline.bsky.social
Conference in Glasgow
Sunday 30th November, 12-4pm
Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/morning-st...
November 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Fighting for Women's Liberation in 2025
@mstaronline.bsky.social
Conference in Glasgow
Sunday 30th November, 12-4pm
Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/morning-st...
@mstaronline.bsky.social
Conference in Glasgow
Sunday 30th November, 12-4pm
Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/morning-st...
Clydebank TUC Public Meeting on the Far Right's manipulation of the issues around women and children's safety, including grooming gangs, upsurge in racism, how to respond. Monday 24th November, 7pm Clydebank
November 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Clydebank TUC Public Meeting on the Far Right's manipulation of the issues around women and children's safety, including grooming gangs, upsurge in racism, how to respond. Monday 24th November, 7pm Clydebank
Women's Liberation Alliance webinar:
Violence Against Women and the Mainstreaming of the Far Right,
Tuesday 25th November, 7-9pm
#16Days
#antiracism
#EndVAWG
#VAWG
Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/violence-a...
Violence Against Women and the Mainstreaming of the Far Right,
Tuesday 25th November, 7-9pm
#16Days
#antiracism
#EndVAWG
#VAWG
Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/violence-a...
November 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Women's Liberation Alliance webinar:
Violence Against Women and the Mainstreaming of the Far Right,
Tuesday 25th November, 7-9pm
#16Days
#antiracism
#EndVAWG
#VAWG
Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/violence-a...
Violence Against Women and the Mainstreaming of the Far Right,
Tuesday 25th November, 7-9pm
#16Days
#antiracism
#EndVAWG
#VAWG
Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/violence-a...
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Support the Phlebotomists - on strike for 236 days - the longest strike in NHS history.
All they're asking for is the right pay for the job. Other Trusts have stepped up, time for Gloucestershire NHS Foundation Trust to do the right thing.
Rally today Shire Hall, Gloucester GL1 2TG ✊💜
All they're asking for is the right pay for the job. Other Trusts have stepped up, time for Gloucestershire NHS Foundation Trust to do the right thing.
Rally today Shire Hall, Gloucester GL1 2TG ✊💜
"Is this dispute not getting either the profile or support it deserves because we are talking mainly about women workers?"
Roger McKenzie on @unison.org.uk strike by NHS phlebotomists. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stri... #UnionsForWomen
Roger McKenzie on @unison.org.uk strike by NHS phlebotomists. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stri... #UnionsForWomen
Strikes led by women deserve universal support
PHLEBOTOMISTS at Gloucestershire Hospitals have been on strike since March 17. As of this week, at more than 200 days, that makes it the longest strike in NHS history.Not that you would really know fr...
morningstaronline.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Support the Phlebotomists - on strike for 236 days - the longest strike in NHS history.
All they're asking for is the right pay for the job. Other Trusts have stepped up, time for Gloucestershire NHS Foundation Trust to do the right thing.
Rally today Shire Hall, Gloucester GL1 2TG ✊💜
All they're asking for is the right pay for the job. Other Trusts have stepped up, time for Gloucestershire NHS Foundation Trust to do the right thing.
Rally today Shire Hall, Gloucester GL1 2TG ✊💜
"THE Communist Party agreed to “develop a strategy… to reverse gender identity policy capture in the trade union movement” at its weekend congress." Great to see this position agreed by Communist party. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/comm... #UnionsForWomen
Communists will fight for recognition of women’s sex-based rights across trade unions, party congress agrees
THE Communist Party agreed to “develop a strategy… to reverse gender identity policy capture in the trade union movement” at its weekend congress.Mary Davis of Hackney & Tower Hamlets branch welco...
morningstaronline.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
"THE Communist Party agreed to “develop a strategy… to reverse gender identity policy capture in the trade union movement” at its weekend congress." Great to see this position agreed by Communist party. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/comm... #UnionsForWomen
"Is this dispute not getting either the profile or support it deserves because we are talking mainly about women workers?"
Roger McKenzie on @unison.org.uk strike by NHS phlebotomists. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stri... #UnionsForWomen
Roger McKenzie on @unison.org.uk strike by NHS phlebotomists. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stri... #UnionsForWomen
Strikes led by women deserve universal support
PHLEBOTOMISTS at Gloucestershire Hospitals have been on strike since March 17. As of this week, at more than 200 days, that makes it the longest strike in NHS history.Not that you would really know fr...
morningstaronline.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 10:56 AM
"Is this dispute not getting either the profile or support it deserves because we are talking mainly about women workers?"
Roger McKenzie on @unison.org.uk strike by NHS phlebotomists. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stri... #UnionsForWomen
Roger McKenzie on @unison.org.uk strike by NHS phlebotomists. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stri... #UnionsForWomen
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PCS General Secretary Fran Heathcote had inspiring words for delegates to our women’s seminar in Birmingham today: “It’s all about giving women the confidence and support to get involved in their union and think they can do this and encourage them."
#PCSEquality25
#PCSEquality25
November 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
PCS General Secretary Fran Heathcote had inspiring words for delegates to our women’s seminar in Birmingham today: “It’s all about giving women the confidence and support to get involved in their union and think they can do this and encourage them."
#PCSEquality25
#PCSEquality25
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The two-child limit is the main driver of child poverty across the UK. We urge the Chancellor to act in the Budget and in the upcoming child poverty strategy.
The autumn Budget is the moment to act – for every child, in every nation.
The autumn Budget is the moment to act – for every child, in every nation.
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The two-child limit is the main driver of child poverty across the UK. We urge the Chancellor to act in the Budget and in the upcoming child poverty strategy.
The autumn Budget is the moment to act – for every child, in every nation.
The autumn Budget is the moment to act – for every child, in every nation.