Afzal
@rahman-afzal.bsky.social
TUC Policy Officer. The cause of labour is the hope of the world.
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Afzal
@rahman-afzal.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Greetings from Congress House, home of the British trade union movement
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It's your time, not your bosses.
February 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
It's your time, not your bosses.
Thames Water have sent me the annual water bill. Just look at those year on year rises over the last five years. Criminal.
February 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Thames Water have sent me the annual water bill. Just look at those year on year rises over the last five years. Criminal.
The trade union movement is also against the undermining of copyright. Creative workers are the backbone of our creative industries.
Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training.
I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.
I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.
February 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The trade union movement is also against the undermining of copyright. Creative workers are the backbone of our creative industries.
Make real wage growth unremarkable again
February 18, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Make real wage growth unremarkable again
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A recent TUC poll found that 59% of business leaders say they are losing staff time due to the poor state of public services. 🚨 Weak social infrastructure isn’t just a public sector issue—it’s an economic one. www.tuc.org.uk/news/more-ha...
More than half of business leaders (59%) say they are losing staff time due to poor state of public services
A new poll commissioned by the TUC shows that business leaders want the government to prioritise improvements to public services
www.tuc.org.uk
February 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
A recent TUC poll found that 59% of business leaders say they are losing staff time due to the poor state of public services. 🚨 Weak social infrastructure isn’t just a public sector issue—it’s an economic one. www.tuc.org.uk/news/more-ha...
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Stagnant living standards are one of many reasons the Tories were kicked out of office after 14 years - Labour has made it our mission to improve them via renters' rights, housebuilding and raising the minimum wage.
February 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Stagnant living standards are one of many reasons the Tories were kicked out of office after 14 years - Labour has made it our mission to improve them via renters' rights, housebuilding and raising the minimum wage.
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I saw illegality and complicity with war crimes. That’s why I quit the UK Foreign Office, a devastating account by a UK diplomat who quit in Aug 2024.
Ministers & senior officials protected arms deals facilitating death and horror in Gaza and Yemen.
Parliament emasculated. No one held to account.
Ministers & senior officials protected arms deals facilitating death and horror in Gaza and Yemen.
Parliament emasculated. No one held to account.
I saw illegality and complicity with war crimes. That’s why I quit the UK Foreign Office | Mark Smith
Ministers and senior officials protected arms deals facilitating death and horror in Gaza and Yemen. I urge my former colleagues to resist them, says one-time Foreign Office policy adviser Mark Smith
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I saw illegality and complicity with war crimes. That’s why I quit the UK Foreign Office, a devastating account by a UK diplomat who quit in Aug 2024.
Ministers & senior officials protected arms deals facilitating death and horror in Gaza and Yemen.
Parliament emasculated. No one held to account.
Ministers & senior officials protected arms deals facilitating death and horror in Gaza and Yemen.
Parliament emasculated. No one held to account.
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We revealed Nigel Farage’s voting record to his constituents in Clacton.
They weren’t happy.
They weren’t happy.
February 10, 2025 at 11:03 AM
We revealed Nigel Farage’s voting record to his constituents in Clacton.
They weren’t happy.
They weren’t happy.
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What this Times article ignores is that this is already happenning with agricultural workers and care workers... and it is a human rights disaster.
As we reported workers live on farms in uninsulated, cramped, mouldy and unsafe housing.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023...
As we reported workers live on farms in uninsulated, cramped, mouldy and unsafe housing.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023...
February 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
What this Times article ignores is that this is already happenning with agricultural workers and care workers... and it is a human rights disaster.
As we reported workers live on farms in uninsulated, cramped, mouldy and unsafe housing.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023...
As we reported workers live on farms in uninsulated, cramped, mouldy and unsafe housing.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023...
Selling a BFI Southbank ticket for Jeanne Dielman, with intro by Laura Mulvey. Sat 8th Feb, 6pm. Face value £13.50 @lffstubs.bsky.social whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
Buy cinema tickets for Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles + intro by film theorist and filmmaker Laura Mulvey | BFI Southbank
whatson.bfi.org.uk
February 1, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Selling a BFI Southbank ticket for Jeanne Dielman, with intro by Laura Mulvey. Sat 8th Feb, 6pm. Face value £13.50 @lffstubs.bsky.social whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
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So relentless has been Israel’s assault, and so complete the destruction in northern Gaza that a former Israeli defence minister described the military’s actions there as ‘ethnic cleansing’.
Here's how the Israeli military erased a town of 200,000 people in Gaza. on.ft.com/3DTS14e
Here's how the Israeli military erased a town of 200,000 people in Gaza. on.ft.com/3DTS14e
January 15, 2025 at 10:25 AM
So relentless has been Israel’s assault, and so complete the destruction in northern Gaza that a former Israeli defence minister described the military’s actions there as ‘ethnic cleansing’.
Here's how the Israeli military erased a town of 200,000 people in Gaza. on.ft.com/3DTS14e
Here's how the Israeli military erased a town of 200,000 people in Gaza. on.ft.com/3DTS14e
Spotted @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social on the newsstand today so I bought the paper
December 28, 2024 at 9:42 PM
Spotted @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social on the newsstand today so I bought the paper
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Should water bills go up when rivers are full of sewage?
I was on BBC News today saying Ofwat + the Minister should instead:
💦let polluting water companies lose their licences
💷make reckless banks take a haircut to zero
🍃transfer water into public hands to invest👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD6T...
I was on BBC News today saying Ofwat + the Minister should instead:
💦let polluting water companies lose their licences
💷make reckless banks take a haircut to zero
🍃transfer water into public hands to invest👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD6T...
Let failed water companies lose their licences, not charge higher bills (19 December 2024) BBC News
YouTube video by Ewan McGaughey
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2024 at 6:14 AM
Should water bills go up when rivers are full of sewage?
I was on BBC News today saying Ofwat + the Minister should instead:
💦let polluting water companies lose their licences
💷make reckless banks take a haircut to zero
🍃transfer water into public hands to invest👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD6T...
I was on BBC News today saying Ofwat + the Minister should instead:
💦let polluting water companies lose their licences
💷make reckless banks take a haircut to zero
🍃transfer water into public hands to invest👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD6T...
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🚌 Support striking Manchester bus workers, fighting low pay today 🪧 & keeping #Manchester moving every day.
❗️Tell Transport fpr Greater Manchester to negotiate a fair rise now
❗️Please share this post
#fairpay NOW!
❗️Tell Transport fpr Greater Manchester to negotiate a fair rise now
❗️Please share this post
#fairpay NOW!
December 13, 2024 at 5:14 PM
🚌 Support striking Manchester bus workers, fighting low pay today 🪧 & keeping #Manchester moving every day.
❗️Tell Transport fpr Greater Manchester to negotiate a fair rise now
❗️Please share this post
#fairpay NOW!
❗️Tell Transport fpr Greater Manchester to negotiate a fair rise now
❗️Please share this post
#fairpay NOW!
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At our event yesterday, Kate Bell argued that international evidence suggests there doesn't need to be a trade-off between job quantity and job quality.
December 13, 2024 at 12:00 PM
At our event yesterday, Kate Bell argued that international evidence suggests there doesn't need to be a trade-off between job quantity and job quality.
The correct position on British lunch culture is that it is bad. Lunches should be long, indulgent and shared.
December 12, 2024 at 8:04 PM
The correct position on British lunch culture is that it is bad. Lunches should be long, indulgent and shared.
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TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak is now on Bluesky at
@paulnowaktuc.bsky.social - Give him a follow.
@paulnowaktuc.bsky.social - Give him a follow.
Headline translation: Multi-millionaire who bought farm to take advantage of tax break, upset he will lose tax break. 🤷🏻♂️
The same newspapers who scream increases in the NMW will damage the economy, are happy to go to the barricades for a tax break for Clarkson, Dyson & friends.
The same newspapers who scream increases in the NMW will damage the economy, are happy to go to the barricades for a tax break for Clarkson, Dyson & friends.
November 19, 2024 at 5:37 PM
TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak is now on Bluesky at
@paulnowaktuc.bsky.social - Give him a follow.
@paulnowaktuc.bsky.social - Give him a follow.
Greetings from Congress House, home of the British trade union movement
November 14, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Greetings from Congress House, home of the British trade union movement
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Two more trade unions joining Bluesky today - @unitetheunion.bsky.social and @unisontheunion.bsky.social - taking our union starter pack up to 16.
go.bsky.app/39dpPLN
go.bsky.app/39dpPLN
November 14, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Two more trade unions joining Bluesky today - @unitetheunion.bsky.social and @unisontheunion.bsky.social - taking our union starter pack up to 16.
go.bsky.app/39dpPLN
go.bsky.app/39dpPLN