TonyDobbins
@tdobbo.bsky.social
Interested in work and employment relations, and other things in life outside the world of work: hiking, footy (YNWA), cycling, nature, music. Plebeian origins. Greatest achievements: seeing a badger 🦡and rescuing a hedgehog 🦔
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The sources of the crises in our society – the super rich, oil and gas companies, banks and energy companies – will be delighted that today's budget chooses to protect them and tax us instead.
November 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The sources of the crises in our society – the super rich, oil and gas companies, banks and energy companies – will be delighted that today's budget chooses to protect them and tax us instead.
Underinvestment, inequality, disasterous privatisation and austerity 🫣
A decade of national renewal? Not exactly.
The chancellor's public investment plans don't come close to our historic investment levels.
Underinvestment has left us with sewage in our rivers, constant railway disruptions, crumbling schools and a shortage of hospital beds.
The chancellor's public investment plans don't come close to our historic investment levels.
Underinvestment has left us with sewage in our rivers, constant railway disruptions, crumbling schools and a shortage of hospital beds.
November 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Underinvestment, inequality, disasterous privatisation and austerity 🫣
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I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
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📽️ Missed the event? Watch the full recording🔗 etui.org/Z9V
📄 Explore more:
Read the Transfer issue "Experimentation in ‘buying decent work'" - with several articles available in open access 🔓 etui.org/Z9R
Listen to an ETUI podcast episode on public procurement for the public good 🎧 etui.org/Z99
📄 Explore more:
Read the Transfer issue "Experimentation in ‘buying decent work'" - with several articles available in open access 🔓 etui.org/Z9R
Listen to an ETUI podcast episode on public procurement for the public good 🎧 etui.org/Z99
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November 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
📽️ Missed the event? Watch the full recording🔗 etui.org/Z9V
📄 Explore more:
Read the Transfer issue "Experimentation in ‘buying decent work'" - with several articles available in open access 🔓 etui.org/Z9R
Listen to an ETUI podcast episode on public procurement for the public good 🎧 etui.org/Z99
📄 Explore more:
Read the Transfer issue "Experimentation in ‘buying decent work'" - with several articles available in open access 🔓 etui.org/Z9R
Listen to an ETUI podcast episode on public procurement for the public good 🎧 etui.org/Z99
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"If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear,"
November 25, 2025 at 9:51 AM
"If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear,"
Makes you wonder how much worse things would have been without the period of investment via European structural funds. Homegrown 'managed decline' under Thatcherism, austerity and 'Brexshit'.
Farage is speaking at Venue Cymru tonight.
Last revamped in 2018 with £1.8 million of EU development money and another £1 million in business development cash.
Original development also received significant EU funding.
Farage, by contrast, will give Llandudno nothing but hot air and lies.
Last revamped in 2018 with £1.8 million of EU development money and another £1 million in business development cash.
Original development also received significant EU funding.
Farage, by contrast, will give Llandudno nothing but hot air and lies.
November 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Makes you wonder how much worse things would have been without the period of investment via European structural funds. Homegrown 'managed decline' under Thatcherism, austerity and 'Brexshit'.
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This story is all Nigel Farage should be asked about by journalists for months
Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10-and-a-half years for taking pro-Russian bribes
The judge tells Nathan Gill his actions were a
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This story is all Nigel Farage should be asked about by journalists for months
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Very interesting and timely paper by Tine Molendijk in @wesjnl.bsky.social. Great to see the concept of moral injury being given more sociological and contextual depth.
Very interesting and timely paper by Tine Molendijk in @wesjnl.bsky.social. Great to see the concept of moral injury being given more sociological and contextual depth.
A Contextual Model of Moral Injury: Redefining Trauma in Frontline Professions through Ethics and Context - Tine Molendijk, 2025
To date, the interrelations between mental health and ethical challenges in frontline professions, such as the military, police and health care, have remained u...
journals.sagepub.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Very interesting and timely paper by Tine Molendijk in @wesjnl.bsky.social. Great to see the concept of moral injury being given more sociological and contextual depth.
Very interesting and timely paper by Tine Molendijk in @wesjnl.bsky.social. Great to see the concept of moral injury being given more sociological and contextual depth.
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📗 'Experimenting for union renewal: challenges, illustrations and lessons' examines how trade unions from across the world are responding in experimental ways to disruptions that are destabilising traditional structures and practices
🔗 etui.org/Z9M
🔗 etui.org/Z9M
etui.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
📗 'Experimenting for union renewal: challenges, illustrations and lessons' examines how trade unions from across the world are responding in experimental ways to disruptions that are destabilising traditional structures and practices
🔗 etui.org/Z9M
🔗 etui.org/Z9M
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It is never the wrong time re-reading Kalecki's article.
www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/08/kale...
www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/08/kale...
Kalecki on the Political Obstacles to Achieving Full Employment | naked capitalism
This section from Michal Kalecki's 1943 Essay on Politics and Ideology is so clear and relevant that it needs to be read widely. Thanks to New Economic Perspectives for flagging it.
www.nakedcapitalism.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
It is never the wrong time re-reading Kalecki's article.
www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/08/kale...
www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/08/kale...
This is outdated dinosaur management.
🚙🚍🚶♀️“I spend a total of 4 hours commuting to & from the office on a normal day.”
TikTok workers in Ireland face brutal daily commutes. This is not sustainable. Solidarity with CWU Ireland in their fight for hybrid work rights.
https://www.thejournal.ie/tiktok-ireland-3-6877283-Nov2025/
TikTok workers in Ireland face brutal daily commutes. This is not sustainable. Solidarity with CWU Ireland in their fight for hybrid work rights.
https://www.thejournal.ie/tiktok-ireland-3-6877283-Nov2025/
TikTok staff fear becoming 'absent parents' as over 200 petition against full office return
One worker facing a four-hour return commute told The Journal she has serious anxiety about how ‘absent’ she will be from her child’s life.
www.thejournal.ie
November 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This is outdated dinosaur management.
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A two-year LABOR HISTORY postdoc @brownhist.bsky.social and @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social
Possible foci: migration/displacement/ human trafficking; automation/technology/processes of global integration; or gender/sexuality/politics of reproductive labor
Please apply!
Possible foci: migration/displacement/ human trafficking; automation/technology/processes of global integration; or gender/sexuality/politics of reproductive labor
Please apply!
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November 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
A two-year LABOR HISTORY postdoc @brownhist.bsky.social and @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social
Possible foci: migration/displacement/ human trafficking; automation/technology/processes of global integration; or gender/sexuality/politics of reproductive labor
Please apply!
Possible foci: migration/displacement/ human trafficking; automation/technology/processes of global integration; or gender/sexuality/politics of reproductive labor
Please apply!
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New publication 🚨 Happy to have a chapter in the new Handbook of Comparative Political Economy, which offers a great overview of the state of the field, edited by Marino Regini.
doi.org/10.4337/9781...
@sampol.bsky.social
doi.org/10.4337/9781...
@sampol.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
New publication 🚨 Happy to have a chapter in the new Handbook of Comparative Political Economy, which offers a great overview of the state of the field, edited by Marino Regini.
doi.org/10.4337/9781...
@sampol.bsky.social
doi.org/10.4337/9781...
@sampol.bsky.social
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share.google/images/opwDB... It is worth recalling Keir Starmer's original 10 pledges for his leadership bid. What does he stand for now🧐
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November 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
share.google/images/opwDB... It is worth recalling Keir Starmer's original 10 pledges for his leadership bid. What does he stand for now🧐
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EU Court ruling establishes that the EU can set meaningful standards for wage adequacy and collective bargaining coverage, creating a foundation for upward convergence in labour standards across the Union, writes @rolanderne.bsky.social
www.socialeurope.eu/eu-court-uph...
www.socialeurope.eu/eu-court-uph...
EU Court Upholds Minimum Wage Directive in Victory for Social Europe
The ruling preserves key provisions on wage adequacy and collective bargaining, revealing how employer lobbying inadvertently expanded EU social policy powers.
www.socialeurope.eu
November 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
EU Court ruling establishes that the EU can set meaningful standards for wage adequacy and collective bargaining coverage, creating a foundation for upward convergence in labour standards across the Union, writes @rolanderne.bsky.social
www.socialeurope.eu/eu-court-uph...
www.socialeurope.eu/eu-court-uph...
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Remote and hybrid working are now a new normal for many. How has this affected the UK working landscape?
📢 Read the key points in a summary of our report, ‘Is Working from Home Working?’ on #wfh
ukparliament.shorthandstories.com/home-based-w...
Remote and hybrid working are now a new normal for many. How has this affected the UK working landscape?
📢 Read the key points in a summary of our report, ‘Is Working from Home Working?’ on #wfh
ukparliament.shorthandstories.com/home-based-w...
Remote and hybrid working: still a work in progress?
We investigated the effects of remote and hybrid working
ukparliament.shorthandstories.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Remote and hybrid working are now a new normal for many. How has this affected the UK working landscape?
📢 Read the key points in a summary of our report, ‘Is Working from Home Working?’ on #wfh
ukparliament.shorthandstories.com/home-based-w...
Remote and hybrid working are now a new normal for many. How has this affected the UK working landscape?
📢 Read the key points in a summary of our report, ‘Is Working from Home Working?’ on #wfh
ukparliament.shorthandstories.com/home-based-w...
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How many pop stars do you see dancing with their local MP these days? Bessie Braddock MP (Labour - Liverpool Exchange, 1945-70) died on this day in 1970. She had been an MP for nearly 20 years when this was taken with a 21 year-old George Harrison. Braddock was a huge supporter of music in Liverpool
I'm Happy Just to Dance with You
24th March 1964. Beatle George Harrison takes to the dance floor with Liverpool MP. Bessie Braddock at
the Carl-Alan Awards ceremony at the Empire Ballroom.
24th March 1964. Beatle George Harrison takes to the dance floor with Liverpool MP. Bessie Braddock at
the Carl-Alan Awards ceremony at the Empire Ballroom.
November 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
How many pop stars do you see dancing with their local MP these days? Bessie Braddock MP (Labour - Liverpool Exchange, 1945-70) died on this day in 1970. She had been an MP for nearly 20 years when this was taken with a 21 year-old George Harrison. Braddock was a huge supporter of music in Liverpool
Includes evidence collated by a research team at University of Birmingham @unibirmingham.bsky.social
🤵🖥️
Remote and hybrid working are now a new normal for many. How has this affected the UK working landscape?
📢 Read the key points in a summary of our report, ‘Is Working from Home Working?’ on #wfh
ukparliament.shorthandstories.com/home-based-w...
Remote and hybrid working are now a new normal for many. How has this affected the UK working landscape?
📢 Read the key points in a summary of our report, ‘Is Working from Home Working?’ on #wfh
ukparliament.shorthandstories.com/home-based-w...
Remote and hybrid working: still a work in progress?
We investigated the effects of remote and hybrid working
ukparliament.shorthandstories.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Includes evidence collated by a research team at University of Birmingham @unibirmingham.bsky.social
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Minimum Wages: Directive put beyond all doubt by today’s ruling of the Court of Justice.
@estherlynch.bsky.social 📢 "this judgment confirms that the Minimum Wage Directive stands firm – the EU can and must act for fair wages."
@estherlynch.bsky.social 📢 "this judgment confirms that the Minimum Wage Directive stands firm – the EU can and must act for fair wages."
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Minimum Wages: Directive put beyond all doubt by today’s ruling of the Court of Justice.
@estherlynch.bsky.social 📢 "this judgment confirms that the Minimum Wage Directive stands firm – the EU can and must act for fair wages."
@estherlynch.bsky.social 📢 "this judgment confirms that the Minimum Wage Directive stands firm – the EU can and must act for fair wages."
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Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
November 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
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My beautiful laundrette
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Silence over Sudan: why do Manchester City’s owners get away with so much?
Two midweek matches in England had a backdrop of war and geopolitics, but only one drew large protests
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:17 AM
My beautiful laundrette
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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We can’t afford to do what every other country did years ago for our railways, but people need to drive their kids to school in a tank
Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
UK transport secretary says full electrification of railways ‘not affordable right now’
Heidi Alexander says focus will be on other projects such as HS2
www.ft.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:05 AM
We can’t afford to do what every other country did years ago for our railways, but people need to drive their kids to school in a tank
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The rule of law has delivered:
Profiteering
Poverty
Poor housing
Low wages/pensions
Queues for hospital appointments
Premature death to many
Sewage in rivers
Cuts in spending on essential services
Closure of libraries, community centres.
Whose law, who rules? Govts appease corporations/rich.
Profiteering
Poverty
Poor housing
Low wages/pensions
Queues for hospital appointments
Premature death to many
Sewage in rivers
Cuts in spending on essential services
Closure of libraries, community centres.
Whose law, who rules? Govts appease corporations/rich.
Nothing will change until the political system is freed from the clutches of corporations and the super-rich
The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few
leftfootforward.org
November 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM
The rule of law has delivered:
Profiteering
Poverty
Poor housing
Low wages/pensions
Queues for hospital appointments
Premature death to many
Sewage in rivers
Cuts in spending on essential services
Closure of libraries, community centres.
Whose law, who rules? Govts appease corporations/rich.
Profiteering
Poverty
Poor housing
Low wages/pensions
Queues for hospital appointments
Premature death to many
Sewage in rivers
Cuts in spending on essential services
Closure of libraries, community centres.
Whose law, who rules? Govts appease corporations/rich.