Good that the 🇩🇰🇪🇺Presidency has a 🦋account. As for their discussion on the Copenhagen criteria, maybe they should look at current members before ‘aspiring’ countries
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Good that the 🇩🇰🇪🇺Presidency has a 🦋account. As for their discussion on the Copenhagen criteria, maybe they should look at current members before ‘aspiring’ countries
Digital ID cards could help solve the small boats crisis, says Pat McFadden. The senior government minister says the UK is ‘behind the curve’ when it comes to digital IDs for its citizens www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Our client Fernando was arrested and detained for a month as part of the government's crackdown on 'illegal work'. Fernando has lived in the UK for 21 years. 'Draconian responses like this cause people to lose their job, lose their house' -@lukepiper.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
@marossefcovic.bsky.social 's standing: 📉
OOPS
All power to @lukepower5.bsky.social and the Immigration at Work Rights Centre in their support for Fernando Fontoura bsky.app/profile/luke...
Shocking story. Does our Government's attempt to emulate Farage's love of America now extend to Trump Gestapo tactics? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
@socialistsanddemocrats.eu mobilise against Trump trade deal. Should make for an interesting meeting of @europarl.europa.eu International Trade Committee with @sabineweyand.bsky.social tomorrow www.politico.eu/article/euro...
TRUMP IS “BRAZENLY ANTI-WORKER” AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler: “Trump talks a good game of being for working people, but he’s doing the absolute opposite. He is stripping away regulations that protect workers. His attacks on unions are coming fast & furious." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
📣 New policy brief just out 'How a 28th company law regime jeopardises workers’ rights' 🔗 etui.org/ZRY 🧵👇
@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu must have well pissed off Putin with this👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4fv...
Germany’s Minimum Wage Hike In Accordance With The European Minimum Wage Directive, recognising 60% of the median wage as a formal reference point for setting the statutory minimum. @thorsten-schulten.bsky.social and Malte Lübker @socialeurope.bsky.social www.socialeurope.eu/germanys-min...
@etui.bsky.social Director @andrewwatteu.bsky.social adds to growing doubts at EU-US 'deal' www.etui.org/news/editori...
Don't forget the work of @eesc.bsky.social which has led in involving candidate countries' CSOs in EU processes. @eesc-president.bsky.social : ‘We are trying to build a successful enlargement that puts civil society in the driving seat'. www.eesc.europa.eu/en/news-medi...
As Europe reels from one of its most punishing summers on record, @etuc-ces.bsky.social and @epsu.bsky.social call for public investments in frontline services to be increased, in line with the scale of the climate challenges at hand. etuc.org/en/pressrele...
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
Former top Commission negotiator slams the EU-US Turnberry ‘deal’ as “deeply flawed” and a sign of the EU’s “declining influence” yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/world/t...
Yes, and by the way👇 bsky.app/profile/tomo...
Incredible that HMG have no legal way of stopping contracts with Israeli arms manufacturers. Why are there no 'formal sanctions, embargoes or restrictions put in place by the UK' against them? H/T @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/b46d...
Over the last two days, NUJ members across the UK, Ireland and Continental Europe organised further solidarity action to commemorate colleagues killed in Gaza and to highlight the vital importance of press freedom. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...
UK advertises contract to run Erasmus scheme. Tender indicates ministers are preparing ground to rejoin European student swap programme www.ft.com/content/c79d...
I wonder if Antonio Guterres could call a special UNGA meeting in, say, Geneva? It seems there is precedent in 1988 when Reagan stopped Arafat from appearing in New York
Brexit, its arguments and outcome, has broken the UK. That’s what Bannon’s ‘leninists’ wanted.
Germany opposes @kajakallas.bsky.social proposal to exclude the Israel from the EU's Horizon programme declaring that it supports civilian research only. This is untrue, and they should know it. See this thread by @naomiohreally.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/naom...
Excellent piece by Ruwan Subasinghe and Monica Tepfer @glu-network.bsky.social about deliberations in @ilo.org for new international labour standards on decent work in the platform economy. globallabourcolumn.org/2025/08/28/a...
Yes, and he's posing as a Rt. Hon. though he has no right to that moniker. Thierry Breton has declined the invitation to this loaded hearing
EU calls on US to 'reconsider" visa ban on Palestinians attending September UNGA in New York (when a number of countries including the UK are to announce their recognition of the Palestinian State). Intimates this beaches agreements by the US as host country. www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...
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NEWSOM PLAYING A BLINDER NOWADAYS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
👉Gove #lyingscumbag www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
Hello from Quai Ernest Bevin
Major debate on Palestine to be expected at 2025 @tuc.org.uk Congress around a motion from @neunion.bsky.social with amendments, which will be composited, from @unison.org.uk , @unitetheunion.bsky.social , @pcsunion.bsky.social and @artistsunioneng.bsky.social
@nujofficial.bsky.social motion to 2025 @tuc.org.uk Congress on 'International solidarity with journalists'
Two motions on Europe at 2025 @tuc.org.uk Congress. Motion from @prospectunion.bsky.social 'Europe matters' with amendment from @ucu.org.uk (which I expect the movers will accept) urging the Government to 'fully rejoin Erasmus+'. @wearethemu.bsky.social have a motion on touring artists
European institutions are following national swings to the Right. How can @socialistsanddemocrats.eu counter this shift asks @feps-europe.eu www.ips-journal.eu/topics/democ...
(En anglais?). Anyway, lots of interesting stuff in this Franco-German declaration, including this👇which @etuc-ces.bsky.social and affiliates will no doubt wish to pursue, including the consequences of the deregulation being promoted throughout the declaration
Time for #UN to move its headquarters....
In addition to hitting the EU Representation and British Council offices in Kyiv, the Russians also hit the offices of the @tradeunionkvpu.bsky.social . KVPU calls for accelerated provision of air defence systems and other military assistance and strengthened sanctions kvpu.org.ua/en/uncategor...
Good on @thierrybreton.bsky.social telling US House Judiciary Committee to piss off in answer to the invitation to the ever so even-handed hearing on "Europe's Threat to American Speech and Innovation". Meantime fraudster Farage is passing himself for a Rt. Hon. a title he has no right to claim
Yes, we need more of this, and less (if any) of the McSweeney stuff
@socialeurope.bsky.social returns, refreshed emails.socialeurope.eu/k8d0t8i5q0/2...
Massive union support for @aslefunion.bsky.social Hull Trains workers. Signatories read like @tuc.org.uk membership list
French unions unite for day of action on 18 September against Bayrou budget plans
Former @ec.europa.eu trade chief sees geopolitical disaster in US ‘deal’. EU may survive the (bad) trade effects but at the price of its international standing particularly but not only with China encompass-europe.com/comment/the-...
@teresaribera.ec.europa.eu (Breton’s successor @ec.europa.eu ) picks up where he left off - in more measured language (after all she can’t openly badmouth her boss) www.ft.com/content/010c...
www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/e...
And this👇 www.declassifieduk.org/labour-must-...
Good news: UK bars Israeli officials from London arms fair. Bad news: Israeli arms companies will however be able to take part in DSEI as normal. [Worse news not from @politico.com : UK still relying on Mossad-controlled arms companies for sensitive equipment] www.politico.eu/article/uk-i...
@thierrybreton.bsky.social lashes out against @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu 's US deal and warns against further capitulation on digital. Is he speaking for Macron? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"68% of U.S. adults approve of labor unions, essentially unchanged from last year’s reading. This is the fifth consecutive year that approval of organized labor has been in the 67% to 71% range, a level last reached in the late 1950s and early 1960s." news.gallup.com/poll/694472/...
The FSB has taken over US intelligence. Five 👀 is dead
@europarl.europa.eu Trade Committee Chair @bernd-lange.bsky.social calls extraordinary INTA meeting with @sabineweyand.bsky.social next Wednesday to discuss US trade relations. Will it be in camera? If not go to www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/e... at 14.30 CET and bring 🍿
...and here is the UK statement to the UN Security Council expressing "moral outrage" at Israel's imposed famine on Gaza www.gov.uk/government/s...
We express our profound alarm and distress at the IPC data on Gaza that unequivocally confirms Famine in Gaza: Joint statement, including the UK, on Famine in Gaza www.gov.uk/government/s...
Massive congratulations to #KCTU on the passing of the 'Yellow envelope bill'. EU-RoK Domestic Advisory Group under the EU-Korea FTA consistently pressed for TULRAA reform, particularly to protect 'non-regular' workers
👏The EFBWW congratulates Inga Ruginiene , the new elected Prime Minister of Lithuania. Ruginiene was for many years the president of the Lithuanian wood and forestry union, affiliated to EFBWW, Vice-President of the EFBWW Wood Committee, and above all a long-time trade union friend.
"Without rejoining the EU Single Market and the Customs Union, and without reopening freedom of movement ➡️we can still⬅️ build a valuable relationship with the European Union that genuinely benefits Britain". Sounds like a regretful admission. Why not act on it?
This guy has zero grounding in industrial relations. WTF decided to appoint him?
Nerdy but important @davidkleimann.bsky.social piece examining the mechanics of the transposition of the US framework agreement into EU law via a Regulation or a Treaty, with crucial consequences for @europarl.europa.eu input. Lucky MEPs, while @ukparliament.parliament.uk =🤐
A CEO bragged that he gets "extremely excited" at the thought of firing people and replacing them with AI. There is an alternative to letting tech bros control AI.
A modern take on Tressell’s Ragged Trousered Philanthropist’s great money trick
#Belgium: 400 unite in solidarity with Gazan journalists in Brussels, demanding urgent #EU action. "Our colleagues are working in appalling conditions on the ground. Let’s not forget them. Let’s not forget those who continue to inform us,” said IFJ GS @abellanger.bsky.social ✊ @efjeurope.bsky.social
TikTok’s union-busting continues in the UK. Tony Burke's insider report @yorkshirebylines.co.uk yorkshirebylines.co.uk/business/tec...
Good to see @kajakallas.bsky.social standing up for the ICC against the US sanctions. Wish she would take a stronger line against Israel's aggression vs Palestinians
Jack Straw's legacy🤔?
Good on Hilary Benn to defend ECHR without the mealy-mouthed caveats of some of the Cabinet and former Home Secretaries. No wonder he's consistently towards the top of Labour members' favourability table. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Now that Trump has ratted on the 'deal' @sabineweyand.bsky.social will need a rethink, and so will the Member States, though I don't think the (German-centric) assessment of the EU's weakness is correct
New @tuc.org.uk report calls for pro-worker AI innovation strategy www.tuc.org.uk/research-ana...
OOPs. I believed people who said that the UK 'deal' was better than the EU one 🥵
Good read in which, by the way, Sam foresees UK rejoined EU (🤐Don't tell Keir)
A must watch 👀 @ec.europa.eu spokesperson on the Trump digital threats. For just shy of half-an-hour, a masterclass in obfuscation by Paula Pinho (should be here 🦋) audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/media/vid...
At least it seems some member states are talking about using the EU's anti-coercion instruments (though I'm not holding my breath). Meanwhile, the Lord Mandelson is talking about another UK 'deal' with Trump... 🤦♂️ www.ft.com/content/0915...
@etuce.bsky.social urges the @ec.europa.eu to take bold steps to oppose President Donald Trump’s calls to dismantle regulations on technology companies 'Defending Europe’s Digital Sovereignty and Democratic Values Against Deregulation Pressures' www.etuce.org/en/news/etuc...
I know it's August, but isn't there anyone @ec.europa.eu to pick up on this? @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @marossefcovic.bsky.social @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social ?
UN report backs @etuc-ces.bsky.social call for mandatory heat risk assessments etuc.org/en/pressrele...
Exculpate Serhii K
More evidence of Canada's pivot towards Europe
Keating is right. European leaders (I would include the UK) have sold the pass. They thought absence of digital regulation from their tariffs 'deals' had safeguarded it. Trump now threatens to hike tariffs levels if we don't forego digital sovereignty. They must disinter their countervailing duties
Draghi's Rimini speech. Worth a read. www.meetingrimini.org/en/turn-skep...
Warnings that the Tory trade deal with Australia would threaten the UK beef sector are being realised, and now the US 'deal' threatens to make things worse. More #BrexitBenefits www.ft.com/content/9170...
Prof that Putin doesn't want peace. Zelenskyy and the Europeans have out played him. How will Trump get around this, I wonder?
Yep, and Hirohito drove a really tough bargain
I doubt that the Algerian authorities will cooperate in controlling these flows (and indeed wouldn't be surprised if they are complicit) given the Spanish position on the Western Sahara and their increasingly conflictual relationship with France (and EU generally)
HONG KONG: Small Victories, Big Defiance: Cleaning Workers Push Back hklabourrights.org/news/small-v...
This is more useful www.oecd.org/en/data/dash....
TRA investigation finds Chinese biodiesel is being dumped in the UK at unfairly low prices, causing material injury to UK producers. Proposes anti-dumping duties www.gov.uk/government/n...
Just as well the US will no longer share its intelligence with 5 eyes. It's increasingly manipulated and unreliable
Yes, Baalbek is a world jewel in Lebanon. That's why Israeli Pharisees doesn't care if it's destroyed www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...
Great visit to Southwark Cathedral today. Lovely Harvard Chapel. Don't tell Trump. He would try to redecorate it
Trump regime eliminates State Department’s Business and Human Rights team. Contradicts US commitment in agreement with @ec.europa.eu to reinforce joint work against forced labour. China 😂. theconversation.com/state-depart...
Gaza, or Belsen?
Now we know why the FBI are raiding John Bolton; just listen to him taking the piss on Trump right now on Radio 4 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
@etuc-ces.bsky.social sounds alarm bells on the EU-US framework on an agreement. "We call on the EU to reclaim its economic and regulatory sovereignty": @estherlynch.bsky.social www.etuc.org/en/pressrele...
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This rather disproves Trump's claim at the time of the minerals deal that the presence of US firms would in itself be a deterrent to Putin.
Civilised countries condemn "in strongest" terms and call for "immediate reversal" Israel's plans for settlement construction in the E1 area, East of Jerusalem. It "is unacceptable and a violation of international law". How can the UK still say they are our "allies"? www.gov.uk/government/n...
👂@paulnowaktuc.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk on @politicshome.bsky.social talking about Labour's first year in Government www.politicshome.com/news/article...
UK now safe from tennis-balls travelling twice the speed of sound. www.gov.uk/government/n...
Tom is of course correct. Externally funded and organised projects have their place, but are no substitute for robust and independent parliamentary scrutiny - here’s a longer piece on this issue and happy to discuss further: ukandeu.ac.uk/how-parliame...