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’Scotland have final reached a major qualifier’.
CORRECTION - Scotland MENS football team have finally reached a decent qualifier.
Did you forget the ladies team actually made it to the World Cup?
A packed public meeting in Glasgow support & completr solidarity of striking workers' & demand for change - the workers & working class united will never be defeated✊ Victory to the
@RMTunion
& victory to all workers' in struggle.
Enough Is Enough🚩
#victorytothermt
During COP26, we’ll be putting on extra carriages and frequent electric rail services until late at night – after midnight on some routes – to help journeys run as smoothly as possible for delegates and our regular customers.
Hi
@GlasgowEURO2020
- I can't believe we are a host city & cannot provide one sanitary bin or products for women who are at the fan zone. Extremely disappointing for a country that has just passed a bill on period provision/products & wants to be a world leader. Plz address👍
About a year ago I was in Tesco and guy serving me asked: ‘Do you want to get a drink?’
*Delighted* I said:’ Aye why not...when do you finish? I could book a table in town?’
He meant for part of my meal deal👀
He still works in my Tesco and I’m still affronted🙈
Wee
#FactCheck
- it is not Scotlands first major football tournament in over 22 years, it is Scotlands MENS...mind our women's squad went to the World Cup ⚽️🏴
#EURO2020
#Euros2021
#SCO
❌SAY NO TO MANDATORY CALORIES ON MENUS IN SCOTLAND❌
The Scot Gov plan to introduce calories on menus as a way to "ensure people can make more informed, healthier choices when it comes to eating food out or ordering takeaways" as someone with an ED this is extremely damaging..
Reminder:
They didn’t resign over Covid deaths.
They didn’t resign over benefit cuts.
They didn’t resign over Partygate.
They didn’t resign over PPE.
They didn’t resign over Brexit failure.
They didn’t resign over deporting refugees.
They didn't resign over cost of living.
OTD 5 February 1981, 240 women workers at the Lee Jeans factory in Greenock occupied their workplace after learning it to be closed. They barricaded the doors with chairs & 2 of them climbed onto the roof & down a drainpipe to buy 240 portions of fish and chips and Irn Bru (1/2)
On this day, 21 August 1981, 140 mostly women workers at the Lee Jeans factory in Greenock, Scotland returned to work after winning a 7 days occupation of the plant against closure, having won their jobs back.
Archive, Celebrate & Learn from Women's History 💜💚
If you think that Scotland’s alcohol deaths are because of cost or will be resolved by increasing alcohol cost then you don’t understand the complexity of alcohol misuse and alcohol related deaths.
The root cause of these deaths are not cost.
6 years ago I was in a homeless unit then temporary accommodation whilst I was still at school unsure I’d even make any my exams & what the future holds. Today I have a teaching degree & working in the most amazing job at the heart of the Trade Union Movement & Equalities💪💜
2 years ago I was in a Homeless unit unsure of what the future held for me. Today I’ve had my own flat 19 months and for first time in my life got a brand new suite delivered rather than have 2nd hand ones. Shows how you can turn your life around. Peace Out
Fab new winter beret hat curtesy of
@EISUnion
🤠💁♀️💚
1st national teachers strike in 40+ years. Full power, solidarity & victory to the teachers, & workers organising, rising & saying
#EnoughIsEnough
Support the strikes. Join a picket.
#JoinAUnion
✊🤝✊🤝
I left home at 15. I was estranged & homeless. I was predicted to fail my highers. But, I became a qualified teacher & now I work in equalities policy/politics. You are SO much more than your grades‼️ Don’t ever let it define you&don’t ever give up!
There is NO
#wrongpath
🤞💪
Power to the teachers👏
Strong pickets in Glasgow West & brilliant support from the local community & public.
An investment in teachers pay is an investment in Scotland 🤝
Stay strong💪💖💚
#PayAttention
Ending my week with keys to a new home🏠🥳 finally in social housing, & a 🌈 appeared as I came to see it🍀
I've lost count of the postcodes I've had, from all sorts of living situations/moved around/homelessness/insecurity most my life - so much more than just a 🔑 to me🫶🌎
Teachers saved my life. When I was homeless they were there. When I was removed from my home they were there. When I moved to uni they took me. They filled gaps, restored hope & helped me on a path to overcome adversity. Imagine how many more they could help if valued in T&Cs
UNIONS ARE NOT TO BLAME FOR SCHOOL CLOSURES OR CHILDCARE CHALLENGES.
Decades of neglect to local government, & complete undervaluing, under resourcing & underpaying local government workers from government & council leaders is to blame‼️
No one takes strike action lightly 🪧
Good luck to everyone getting their results tomorrow. I was predicted to fail my highers&became homeless at estranged in my 6th year at school. I went on to qualify as a teacher & now work as an Equality Officer. Don’t ever let it define you or your future. You are amazing💫
We are NOT “going back to work”.
We have been working this WHOLE time. This has not been a holiday or break!!
We will simply be going back to the building of our schools. Not “back to work”.
Sincerely,
All teachers.
They kept up the occupation for seven months, when management caved and agreed to a buyout, giving the jobs back to all 140 workers still occupying the plant 💪 🎉💪👏✊
Legends of herstory & working class organising.
I am a strong believer that everything in life happens for a reason!
Absolutely thrilled to be joining the
@ScottishTUC
team as the new Policy (Equalities) Officer.
Super excited to get stuck in and for the adventure and challenges ahead🤓✊🌈❤️
The women’s qualifier is also next Friday. Make sure you support that. Our women’s team are incredible and deserve so much more investment, media attention and respect in Scotland that what they currently get. They take on Albania in Edinburgh on Friday 23 October - support them.
This time 5 years ago I was working for my club (Celtic). I was on a zero-hour contract & minimum wage. And I was eventually made redundant for standing up for my rights. Flexible working & 0hrs are NOT the same. Disgrace big companies with millions can get away with it.
Car broke. Mixed up the RAF & the RAC - pure on the phone assertively asking for an explanation why the RAF cant come to maryhill to jump start me when it's part of ma policy. *This is the RAF HQ*.
Ooo right. Nae bother. Apologies.
No. We need smaller class sizes. We need more teachers. We need less bureaucracy. We need a full funded education system. We need to stop slashing ASN provision & vital support staff. We need to combat poverty & inequality. We need to support CYP wellbeing & not add uneed stress.
The school week should be extended by eight hours in a £130m rescue plan to make up for lost lessons during lockdown according to a leading Scottish education expert.
Do we need longer school hours to help kids catch up?
#Mornings
with
@kayeadams
- 9am -
HMD💛 I don’t have a mum I can cherish, call, visit, depend on…but I do have lots of wonderful women/people who support, strengthen, inspire & fill my life with so much care, love, joy, & help me grow into a better wee woman & navigate the world.
✨That, is, a blessing✨
Instead the Government should
✅Invest in proper nutritional educational.
✅Tackle the roots of health inequalities.
✅Support people to have food choice & £ means to do so.
✅Fund more mental, physical & nutritional support services & infrastructures for those that need it
My 1st self bought wee tree💚❄ I havent put a tree up since I was in temp accommodation at 16. Reminder of how far I've come & that there is always hope & light & new beginnings & opps to take control of the direction of your life💫 Full on festive vibes this year🎅
Class analysis of the
#sqaresults
is absolutely crucial. Classism cannot & should not be ignored. No ones grades should be influenced based on their postcode or what suits gov agendas & league tables. Classroom teachers know their kids best - not the SQA or Gov.
Sharing your journey so openly is never easy but I will never stop fighting for better awareness, education & a better mental health system in Scotland 🙏💜💪
Feature in
@HolyroodDaily
- The ED review is hopeful but we need urgent action on the ground.
#BeatingEatingDisorders
Proud to have address this years
#LoveRally
to kick off care experienced week. A lifetime of love, equality & respect, & a better system for all care experienced people (&the workers working within it) is possible✊🏽
Let's build our big love & care revolution ❤
✅Free travel for delegates
✅Integrated travel system & introduce smart cards
✅Extend rail times beyond midnight&more services.
1 rule for them & 1 or us.
The things they say they can't do, they can. It is just political will. They choose to use when it suits them.
#CoP26
Some of my clip from
#ScotNight
- thank you to those who’ve been in touch so far with encouragement & support🎥 Together we can raise awareness of eating disorders, increase understanding, help ensure there is more investment, prevention, support, & saves lives from EDs🫶🌎
Getting Scottish people out the pub for 10pm when the Scotland game goes to extra time at 9:57pm during a pandemic is an experience hunners of bar workers will be getting right on their CV
❌It is damaging for people that have battled/live with eating disorders.
❌Could contribute & fuel more disordered eating issues.
❌Costly for business
❌& there is no real evidence that adding calorie labelling to menus will reduce obesity levels for the general public.
If we've learned anything in Scottish education this year it is that those on the ground (teachers/support staff) know best. Listen to them. Listen to those workers (cleaners, clerical staff, cooks) that keep school communities running. Schools are workplace too.
Still struggling to accept I have anorexia & re-diagnosed this year. Its been a silent horrific battle but I've had so much joy, memories & moments to keep living for this year thanks to my friends/colleagues. Not there yet but super blessed & hoping 2022 brings fuller recovery🦋
HUMANS. No HUMAN is illegal. Not migrants. Not refugees. But HUMAN BEINGS. And the absolute worst of humanity is being shown once again. Horrific.
#RefugeesWelcome
always and forever 🙏🚩✊🏽❤️
Pure thugs, bigots and white supremacists on the streets of Glasgow - that is all they are. They are defenders of nothing but their own racist rhetoric.
Disgusted.
#georgesquare
As of next week I will be unemployed like thousands of teachers who have completed probation. Why are we not being given some guaranteed hours to ease this crisis & strategic mission we face in Aug? We should be integral to this planning but we are not
Teachers are the public. Teachers too are parents. The only people to blame for any *disruption* *inconvenience* to the lives of CYP/education is the Scot Gov/COSLA. Divert your energy to supporting teachers, unions & building pressure to deliver a decent pay offer. Solidarity✊
No many people want their period but a good sign my body is beginning to repair is getting it back🙏🥳 (for now). I lost it because of anorexia/bulimia & it’s never been consistent. A raw but real impact of an ED on women & major longer term health & fertility consequence.
Could not be happier with my exam and dissertation result. Finishing with a 1st class hons in politics plus qualified teacher has cheered this last few weeks right up. Never ever thought this was possible😭 celebrations this weekend for sure🎉🍻🎊🍾
Congrats to all the young people who survived the summer, faced battles people may know nothing about, & will turn up to school this week. Showing up is an achievement for so many.
You have no idea what a young person is coping with when they turn up to the classroom✏️❤️🌎
Justice For Sheku Bayoh!
Refugees Are Welcome Here!
Love Glasgow Hate Racism!
No Human Is Illegal!
United in our hundreds to resist, dismantle, & destroy racism and facism. A more tolerant, just & equal world is possible - & we will keep demanding & fighting for it
✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🌎
Honoured to become the youngest trustee of
@whocaresscot
- looking forward to helping to build on the excellent,critical&vital work of this amazing organisation, support putting the mission of love, equality & respect into action, & learning lots along the way too! 🙌
Fantastic day at the
@whocaresscot
Board Development Day. Thanks to all of the amazing staff who contributed and to our brilliant trustees for their knowledge, experience and passion. Brilliant way to end
#TrusteesWeek
💙
Many of the women’s team are also workers in addition to being professional athletes. A man wouldn't have to balance this commitment if they reached professional level. Economic hardships shouldn't discourage girls and women from playing at the top level...but it does.
Lower calories doesn’t = healthier, more nutritious or better for you.
Please urge your MSP to campaign against this, & instead utilise government resource & our tax payers money to tackle the roots of health inequalities & issues in Scotland.
11 yrs OTD I was 1st removed from my then home. I wasn't sure what was ahead or if I'd survive. This week I turn 25. Bit surreal. Blessed for the beautiful life I've built so far& folk that helped/help me albeit adversity. To both live & embrace a life milestone is just magic💜🌎
I sat my exams whilst living solo temporary accommodation with no Wi-Fi/TV/Laptop access & next to nothing in my meter. All I had was my education. I decorated my horrible looking walls in my studying notes.
Remember, just turning up to school/exam is an achievement for some.
How can cafes/restaurants support someone healing from an eating disorder? Be accommodating, where possible.
I felt stressed yday&usually I'd just avoid food. I asked for some bits of fruit & with no hesitation the kitchen made me up a fruit salad which wasn't on the menu(1/3)
No idea who this is but not first and not the last I’ve had to be at the receiving end of such comment. The most despicable word & example of shallow human behaviour.
How to we help addicts/families & challenge stigma with people like this who label & judge?
No one takes strike action easy. It’s shameful that teachers even had to do so in the 1st place. Unions/teachers have been gaslighted & undermined at every turn.
Full strength, power, & solidarity to all my friends, colleagues, & teachers - you should be proud💪💖👏❤️
Letter to John Swinney on behalf of Scottish NQTs - please share and support NQTS.
Now more than ever we need to work collaboratively and innovatively to ensure all our young people receive the best possible learning opportunities.
NQTs should be mobilised.
This is NOT the way to win over working class people & workers' to the climate movement/action or a plant based future esp in the midst of a catastrophic cost of living crisis where people all around us are wondering if they can even afford to buy a pint of milk or eat tonight.
Work is not the route out of poverty if work does not pay. We need a social care revolution & that starts by valuing workers in their pay. These workers are the backbone of our society but continue to be undervalued, undermined & underpaid.
£15 an hour should be a MINIMUM✊🏽
On the march on Saturday saying NO to racism & division!
Today is Anti-Racism Day - a day to reaffirm our commitment to the anti-racist & anti-fascist struggle worldwide, & tackle it here in 🏴 too.
Everyday must be a day we use to resist & destroy racism’.
#RefugeesWelcome
Don’t ever be fooled into thinking there is not enough £ to go round to give everyone security and fulfilment. Of course there is. Austerity and failing to re-distribute wealth and power equally is a political choice.
1yr on today sharing my story with
@HolyroodDaily
on my battle with an eating disorder & campaigning for review, more services & education. Not recovered yet but won't ever stop using my own experiences to help champion change for others🙏 Starting with NO to calories on menus🙅🏼♀️
I shared some of my experiences of anorexia
@STVNews
& my interview with
@STV_Olly
will be on
@ScotlandTonight
this Thursday.
Sharing your story isn’t easy. But I hope it can give some hope, light, & strength to others, & help bring about understanding, action, &change on EDs 🙏
It’s International School Meals Day‼️
I am asking all MSPs to support
@STUCwomen
#FoodForThought
Campaign to expand universal free school meals to all. Hunger & poverty related stigma and shame knows no age boundaries.
Support the call, expand universal school meals to all💪🍎
Honestly the comments & ignorance (mostly from men) I've had since this tweet/challenging the UEFA fan zone has exposed how much work we need to do to on Equality.
Things worth fighting for are never easy. Makes us more determined to keep challenging & winning✊💪🌈
Hi
@GlasgowEURO2020
- I can't believe we are a host city & cannot provide one sanitary bin or products for women who are at the fan zone. Extremely disappointing for a country that has just passed a bill on period provision/products & wants to be a world leader. Plz address👍
As we reach level 0 I think my best lockdown moment/memory was my ex neighbour grassing me in to the police for a solo sober party with my strobe lights, dance mat and home DJ set. Great for the future historians I think.
With our
@ScottishTUC
LGBT+ Workers’ Committee standing in solidarity with our trans siblings, friends, & workers’ at Glasgow’s rally for trans rights & making our voices heard on
#section35
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Massive turnout! ✊🏽
BIG week ahead for equality. Let's make history Scotland❤️🤍please support the bill. No one should be at an economic deficit because of a biological process. Periods aren't a luxury&we shouldn't be made to feel ashamed! Smash the stigma & end period poverty✊
#freeperiodproducts
Honestly the checkout workers in Aldi are pure rapid. I can't keep up with them swiping ma shopping. Get them seconded to the government & we’d have the whole country tested for COVID in 24hrs👀
Thank you to my
@ScottishTUC
colleagues for a very lovely & emosh farewell lunch today🥰 Overwhelmed with the generosity, encouragement, heartfelt words, & even a wee poem crafted from my colleagues - they certainly know me well🌈🎀🤠🍀⚡️ Not a goodbye but a *see yei later* ✊️
“Trade Unions and the strikes are ruining Christmas.”
Fact-check: without the trade unions there wouldn’t be a Christmas holiday in the first place.
Strikes are last resorts.
Value workers. Support their fight.
#JoinAUnion
& support workers’ this Christmas, & always.
Here as a student teacher, why? Because this is my future. We need to stand with teachers in there fight not just for better pay but for Scottish education.
#valueeducationvalueteachers
If you are watching the Trial of Alex Salmond and are triggered, some useful supports:
📞
@rapecrisisscot
08088010302 | 📲 07537410027 | 📩support
@rapecrisisscotland
.org.uk
📞
@scotwomensaid
08000271234 | 📩 helpline
@sdafmh
.org.uk
⏰There is no time scale for talking/reporting.