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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
4 years
The city’s rat problem isn’t a laughing matter, but the Glasgow’s bin men have been big enough to share this video. No rats or bin men were harmed in the making over this video.
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@seanbaillie9
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I’m going to dig this out every time I see a tweet of some ex copper or wannabe Labour politician tweeting some dog whistle on here about how violent crime is driven by migration
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
3 years
Castlemilk via Manhattan please driver.
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sean baillie
3 years
Working class Anti-Imperialism in 1980’s Glasgow
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
1 year
Thought he was holding a young scot card there
@parismarx
Paris Marx
1 year
In 2000, Elon Musk tried to rebrand PayPal as , but was forced out by the board and replaced as CEO by Peter Thiel. Now he’s doing the same to Twitter, but is surrounded by sycophants who can’t tell him it’s a bad idea. Read more:
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
3 years
What a job the cleanny do btw, among the lowest paid in the council too.
@Clyde1News
Clyde 1 News
3 years
📷 George Square is now free of broken glass and litter, after a massive clean-up operation overnight.
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
3 years
Dawn raids have started again in Glasgow. Solidarity with all. If it doesn’t affect you personally stand with your neighbours, stand with your workmates, stand with mates at school, college and Uni.
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
3 years
Believe it or not, this is Tenant organising in Berlin. They have just gathered enough petition signatures to secure a referendum on whether landlords with over 3000 properties should be nationalised.
@dwenteignen
Deutsche Wohnen & Co Enteignen
3 years
Der Moment, in dem wir die endgültige Zahl bekannt gegeben haben. 😍
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
2 years
Victory To The RMT
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
3 years
Where’s the corporate tax avoidance raid vans? The anti-government contract corruption checkpoints? The slum landlord prevention agency? The unearned wealth task force?
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sean baillie
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@Keir_Starmer
Keir Starmer
1 year
What a night for Scotland.
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
2 years
Patrick Stewart would die for a delivery like this. “What else are we to do? Have we to plead? Have we to beg? We want to bargain, for our futures”
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
4 years
My pick of the Labour document so far
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sean baillie
4 years
A story in 4 parts
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
3 years
Huge solidarity coming in from across the garbage disposal industry
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
3 years
Palestine flag flies over Kenmure Street after police attack demonstrators trying to stop arrests at the corner of Kenmure and Leven street.
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
3 years
“What kind of message does this send to the world during COP?” Or “It’ll embarrass the city on the world stage” Are you not embarrassed or think it’s the wrong message to the world, that the city hosting COP refuses to pay its most essential workers a livable wage?
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
3 years
“There is no waste crisis in Glasgow”
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sean baillie
3 years
Local mosque have put a stall out providing nourishment
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
4 years
Just a reminder Glasgow’s Parks and Roads departments (The ones that would do the gritting) have had roughly 60-70% cuts to its budget over the past decade.
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
4 years
3 steps of your asked to return to work: - Join a Union - Don’t work without an updated risk assessment - collectively submit a pay claim No Risk Assesment no work. Pay Claim knocked back, ballot for industrial action rapid.
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
4 years
Hearing the Tories and SNP have voted down amendments to the Coronavirus Bill that would have seen a rent freeze and collective bargaining for workers in the private care sector. Absoloutely devastating responses in a time of crisis.
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
1 year
Since this went viral, he’s more Akala And yes, I did mean Labour. We know what to expect from the Tory’s we should demand better from Labour other than dog whistle Law & Order Here’s how it could be done
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
2 years
Glasgow City Council voted to reduce the opening hours of the Mitchell Library reducing costs Today I noticed windows on the library boarded up with cardboard a sad indictment of a decaying city Trade Unions are meeting this week to discuss how we campaign for the city’s future
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
3 years
The New York Times have organised a 7 day forum in SWG 3 £2k a ticket attendees will have to walk in front of a GMB picket. Where GCC employees on £17k per year, will be striking for an improvement on an existing offer, which is less than half a price of their ticket.
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
3 years
You cannot build an independent Scotland on scab labour
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
2 years
Want to reduce the number of people claiming Universal Credit? Eradicate poverty pay
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Peter Stefanovic
2 years
Absolutely horrific. I now find it impossible to do these reports without feeling rage & disgust
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sean baillie
3 years
How it started: How it’s going
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
3 years
Tomorrow is the last day of proposed strike action by Glasgow’s cleansing workers. I cannot speak on behalf of the workforce themselves, but as someone who has worked closely with them over the past 8 weeks and for a spell in the middle the of the pandemic, some thoughts 👇
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@ScotlandNT
Scotland National Team
3 years
We can confirm that Billy Gilmour has tested positive for COVID-19. Having liaised with Public Health England, Billy will now self-isolate for 10 days and therefore miss tomorrow’s UEFA EURO 2020 Group D match against Croatia at Hampden.
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
3 years
Glasgow a housing story
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
3 years
“How am I doing boss?”
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
3 years
Only the SNP would try call a trade union far right
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
4 years
Someone want to tell Glasgow City Council that threatening to take a union to court during a pandemic isn’t going to end well for them.
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
3 years
Let’s be clear: - COSLA’s new offer was no improvement on base rate of pay - GCC spent thousands trying to take union to court - Council’s hold key workers to ransom every day they are asked to work on poverty pay - this dispute is years in making, strength of feeling is deep
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
4 years
SNP + Tories have again voted against Trade Union access to ensure workplace safety. They have also voted against ensuring any private company that has public contracts should pay the Living Wage. I’m in disbelief here
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
4 years
Imagine you’ve been locked in a hotel room, no access to money, food, friends, family. Imagine going out for the first time in your new country and you are greeted by this.
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
2 years
Not all heroes wear capes, sometimes it’s Partick Thistle bucket hats
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
3 years
Feel old yet?
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
4 years
That’s a baying mob roaming the country’s biggest city trying to attack Aslyum Seekers campaigning for a decent standard of living. Facilitated by Police Scotland, they publicly stated they knew about the Demo’s why no cordons in place like they do every other time?
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
2 years
“We are the fabric of society, it’s not until we’re not there that you think.. oh my god”
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
3 years
What do SNP members/voters think of their party’s elected members ideological shift into Thatcherism?
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
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Who’s designing these
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
4 years
On a serious note this a workforce cut to the bone who’s safety concerns are often dismissed by councillors who are happier to accuse them of being workshy. 2 screenshots of videos sent in the past week.
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@seanbaillie9
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@DebsEbooks
Eugene V. Debs
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Let the rank and file be heard, and we shall make no mistake.
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
3 years
Even crazier idea: don’t rely on exploiting migrant Labour
@CMonaghanSNP
Carol Monaghan
3 years
Or here’s a crazy idea: what if we joined a group of nations that allowed workers to travel around and take up vacant positions?
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
4 years
Being a landlord should also disqualify anyone from taking a top position in a Trade Union.
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
3 years
Jim, Govanhill. In between the thunder both online and in the sky I got talking to Jim on outside a friends flat. Among the lowest paid in the council, with their jobs under constant threat Jim and his colleagues are out keeping our streets clean day in day out in all weather.
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
2 years
Room filling nicely for tonight’s @eiecampaign rally in Glasgow
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
2 years
So it begins Taxpayers aren’t footing any bill, like union dues we all pay a contribution to make sure our streets are clean, our kids are looked after, and the elderly are cared for Want our parks maintained, potholes fixed? You need workers for that, and they need to live
@heraldscotland
The Herald
2 years
Taxpayers to foot extra £200m annual bill for huge Scots council staff pay rise to stop strikes
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
4 years
Singing Rule Britannia at Asylum Seekers. I don’t see how that can be spun any other way than the obvious
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
3 years
Priti Raging @ Queens Park
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
2 years
Dangerous game to blame the devolution process when council workers in the rest of the UK are being offered 5 times what they are in Scotland, it will lead many to the conclusion that devolution isn’t working rather than push them towards independence
@STVNews
STV News
2 years
Key levers to help ease the cost of living crisis are still controlled by the UK Government, said the First Minister.
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
3 years
The idea that the Glasgow strike is politically motivated is so off mark it’s unbelievable If you truly believe that, I’m not going to post anything other than please visit any picket line tomorrow and ask a striker worker why they are on strike
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
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@freddiebonfa @WestHam @WestHamHelp @AwayDays_ And you’ve just got him banned by plastering his face and name all over Twitter
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
3 years
Fact check: Neither were permitted, both happened anyway
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
3 years
BBC Scotland has money saving experts on to offer advice to people struggling and worrying about the cost of living crisis. So far we’ve had them tell a wedding singer that they should ask for a free meal at events and telling a pensioner who cares for his wife to buy thermals
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
3 years
You don’t hate Monday’s, you hate low wages, poor conditions and Governing bodies that don’t pay essential workers a wage they can live on.
@GMBGlasgowCC
Glasgow GMB
3 years
Today is the day @COSLA you have the power to avoid strike action in Glasgow during #COP26 If you can’t come back with a fair pay offer the @scotgov or @UKGovScotland must step in and secure a pay rise for all local government workers. Stand with us, Not against us
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
4 years
In a conference call with organisers across Scotland. Huge private companies with public contracts not paying cleaners who are isolating or cannot make it due to childcare. 3 guesses for the top offenders? - @SercoGroup - @mearsgroup - @SodexoGroup
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
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Workers striking over Christmas have lost money in the lead up to Christmas, strikes will impact their January pay, all while not knowing if they’ll have a job next year No one else is feeling the effects of strikes more than the workers themselves Heroic
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
2 years
This month: 📈 Energy prices 📈 National Insurance 📈 Council Tax 📈 Fuel 📈 Rent 📉Income There’s only one solution
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
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4yrs ago we sat in a housing office campaigning to ensure a young family that had just been evicted a week before Christmas, (due to the landlord wanting to sell) had liveable temp housing. This morning I shook hands with the family’s dad in a depot fighting for a fair wage
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
3 years
Yeah elections feel great, but have you ever tried neighbourhood organising.
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sean baillie
4 years
Imagine going to protest against Asylum Seekers. I can’t begin to stomach that kind of malice
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
4 years
Can’t wait for £16bn of floating guns to sail up the Clyde and empty my bins after popping by to see if my elderly neighbours are alright. Leaking a public sector pay freeze the day after a £16bn press release about a space force.
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
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Last picture before heading home, loads of police vans still around. Everyone milling around outside takeaways and in parks A car is driving around blaring @Lowkey0nline Long Live Palestine, comrades forgetting disagreements greeting each other in semi disbelief.
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
2 years
The lowest paid council workers in England, Wales and NI have just been offered a 10% pay rise. Council workers in Scotland have been left with the 2% offer on the table. Scottish Exceptionalism has taken a weird turn
@BBCScotlandNews
BBC Scotland News
2 years
Thousands of council workers across Scotland have voted to take industrial action after rejecting a pay offer of 2%.
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
3 years
If you don’t fight, you can’t win
@GMBScotOrg
GMB Scotland
3 years
"Stand with us, and stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity." Enough is enough. #COP26Strike
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
4 years
The burned down the community church next to his grave and regularly take shots at his head stone. 50 years gone and Fred Hampton still terrifies American pigs. Rest In Power.
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sean baillie
3 years
@NotOneRogueCop Supplies donated to sustain demonstrators, a lot from local shops.
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
4 years
According to the register of interests, there are more sitting MSP’s who are Landlords than are members of a Trade Union. Total number of MSP’s: 129 Landlords: 31 (24%) Members of a Trade Union: 28 (21.7%) Party breakdown starting by largest party: 👇
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
2 years
Doorstepping a landlord who’s evicting a single mother, a week before Christmas, after increasing the rent £200pm We won’t accept landlords throwing their weight at around at our expense Join @Living_Rent
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sean baillie
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@BethDerks
Anne-Beth Derks-van Damme
2 years
Any talented musical people out there to put @RMTunion leader Mick Lynch' words to music? This could be made into a historical Protest song! Historical, as in the UK we are at serious risk to lose the right to protest soon. For #protestsongs see @SubversiveSong #righttoprotest
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sean baillie
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Landlords should get a real job
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sean baillie
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Heroes in my eyes, each and every single one
@GMBScotOrg
GMB Scotland
3 years
This is what they mean when they say “People Make Glasgow”. Our members have pride in their city and in their work, and the courage to stand up for what’s right and fair. We couldn’t be more proud to represent these frontline heroes. #cop26 #cop26strike
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sean baillie
2 years
Lenin declared: “The Steel Town of Motherwell has been won for communism”
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sean baillie
1 year
We’ve had an unbelievable week in Caithness & Orkney
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sean baillie
4 years
Can’t help to be utterly devastated with the contempt Glasgow’s political class hold the for it’s working class. There’s a massive aversion to taking responsibility at any level, I’ve experienced it during homeless, housing, asylum seeker and now key worker campaigns
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
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Restrict funding to youth services, shut facilities, pass on the financial liability for them to the communities who can least afford them. Spoke with a youth worker last week, told me outreach has been cut back, they don’t even have boots for their feet. But “wee neds”
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
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I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t be touching his pension.
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
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Canny believe his union let him go out in the middle of a coup
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sean baillie
4 years
Further attempts by the city administration to turn public opinion against key workers. Comments and public reaction says it all.
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sean baillie
2 years
Huge sit in at the Amazon Warehouse in Tilbury Other videos appear to show a large diverse workforce uniting in defiance of an insulting pay offer Feels like the next seismic event during the hot strike summer
@steve_garelick
Steve Garelick
2 years
Tonight a withdrawal of labour at Amazon Tilbury. Workers are incensed. Following a 35 pence pay increase offer. @BBCNews @SkyNews @DailyMirror @GMBLondonRegion @WKennyGMB @twgmb @BAmazonUnion
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sean baillie
4 years
Tonight’s demo was called by @no_evictions a campaign led by asylum seekers initially in response to a wave of hundreds of illegal evictions by Serco. Tonight was in response to the horrific conditions they have been facing during lockdown. Show them your love and support
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
3 years
Heartbreaking what sections of the independence movement have become. This is in response to low paid workers campaigning for fair recognition in pay negotiations. Waste & schools ready for strike action and ballots coming on equal pay, parks and roads, some are in for shock
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
3 years
Hello, this is Chris Mitchell from the GMB Trade Union. This is your Wednesday morning wake up call, sending you camaraderie and solidarity to get you through your working week. A cleaner, greener more sustainable will be ours, & it’ll start by paying key workers a fair wage
@GMBGlasgowCC
Glasgow GMB
3 years
Glasgow’s Refuse & Cleansing workers are locked into Strike Action during #COP26 They have 1 more stop at a depot before a city wide meeting of shop stewards on Friday to plan our picket lines. @COSLA we hear you’ve requested to meet @_KateForbes we hope you’ve got good news
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
3 years
With great power comes great responsibility, only one man can save the union.
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sean baillie
3 years
Show of strength from Living Rent in Govanhill against an illegal eviction. The Landlord has threatened to illegally evict a young family next week. They took to the streets close to the property to highlight that any attempts to illegally evict our members will be resisted.
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@FairHospitality
Unite Hospitality
3 years
Local members from @GlasgowUnite took part in this inspiring action organised by @Living_Rent to stop the illegal eviction of an entire family in #govanhill last night. The exploitation of workers and tenants goes hand in hand and so must our collective response.
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
4 years
Can’t wait to see cuts to services be explained through performative dance
@GlasgowCC
Glasgow City Council
4 years
Did someone say TikTok? We have something exciting to share next week. Follow our #TikTok account glasgowcc to find out more 👀
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
2 years
Wishaw DO @mcfumble1991 Thanking the public for their support, the message is clear your postie wants to be out delivering your mail but Simon Thompson is refusing to settle this dispute, despite having months to do so “We are fighting for our jobs here” @CWUnews
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
1 year
It’s really hard to succinctly describe what is happening to public services in Glasgow This is some of the cuts passed by Cllrs & SG appointees today Weak promises of “fighting for money” whilst continuing to pass cuts & expecting the same results isn’t credible
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sean baillie
3 years
This is just the beginning.
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
2 years
Like any pay offer, any rent freeze will have been won due to the relentless organising and campaigning for tenants and workers Having a collective, resilient organisation built by and for tenants is a constant, levelling force, join @Living_Rent
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@seanbaillie9
sean baillie
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Really impressive action today from @Glasgow_LR working with @gmb_40 Local branches of the Tenants Union and GMB members from cleansing using their own time to clean up their neighbourhoods. But crucially using it to campaign for more public sector jobs and better pay 👌
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