⚽️🪣The Premier league is back, and so are we! We’ll be outside St James’ Park for every home game this season with NUFC Fans Foodbank, starting this Saturday with Newcastle United FC v Aston Villa from 3.30pm - 5.30pm!

Looking forward to seeing all the #GenerousGeordies this season!

The NHS has always had wealthy enemies, but now they have a clear plan to bring it down: starve public healthcare of funding and let private provision grow in its place, writes Grace Blakeley.
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Mick Lynch says an industry source has told him the treasury has spent £1.5bn on the rail dispute. Says taxpayer is subsidising attacks on RMT as train companies are guaranteed income from the government.

'It would cost a mere fraction of that to settle the dispute.'

Our new issue, #NHS75 , is out this month 🩺

Celebrating public healthcare, those who work in it – and our own Nye Bevan!

Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 / Sir Michael Marmot / Grace Blakeley / Taj Ali / Helen O'Connor 💙 / Keep Our NHS Public ➕

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WATCH: Loyle stands with the striking teachers who lifted him up and saved him.

Thank you Loyle for your support at Glastonbury. And thanks to your mum and your girlfriend for the work they do for their pupils.

It’s time for Gillian Keegan MP to #doyourjobgill and…

Universal Credit is at least £35 less than the cost of essentials.

📢 We’re calling on the UK government for an ‘Essentials Guarantee’ to make sure that the basic rate of Universal Credit is at least enough to afford the essentials we all need.

👉Help: tinyurl.com/nfegcampaign

Andrew, hi, just to remind you that average weekly wages in this country are the same level as they were in 2005

🚨BREAKING: Junior doctors in England to escalate strike action.

Five-day strike from Thursday 13th July to Tuesday 18th July.

This will be the longest single period of industrial action in the history of the NHS.

🛒We have update our Needed Items list, we are particularly short of Custard, Rice Pudding and Sanitary Towels.

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As a new three-day strike in England gets underway, I sat down with co-chair of The BMA junior doctors committee Vivek Trivedi to discuss what's been happening in negotiations with the Government, why this dispute hasn't been resolved and what comes next.
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Today marks six years since 72 people died in the Grenfell Tower Fire. As politicians toy with the idea of further cuts, we must remember Grenfell and the terrible, unpredictable consequences of ripping up the fabric of the state to save money.

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BBC journalists in England, members of NUJ, have rejected the BBC’s revised plans on cuts to local radio and have voted for a 48-hour strike on Wednesday 7 June and Thursday 8 June.

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🎸🪣 This Friday and Saturday we'll be collecting outside of St James' Park for
Sam Fender's shows! We'll be there between 3-5pm on both days. See you there! #GenerousGeordies

Amazon workers in Coventry are on the brink of historic union recognition. Their groundbreaking organising campaign shows that it is possible to fight back against injustice – even in the most hostile of environments.

Me for Tribune

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One week to go until Sam Fender plays St James' Park! We'll be collecting outside the ground between 3-5pm on both the 9th and 10th of June. See you there! #GenerousGeordies

Labour is pledging extra financial support to help first-time buyers onto the housing ladder – but more homeownership won't fix a housing crisis caused by treating property as an asset. The party must be far bolder.
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UCU members have won back their stolen pensions.

They were told they were beaten. They were told it was a lost cause.

They balloted. They took strike action. They never gave up.

History.

Well done to everyone involved.

“Far from being the enemy of creative freedom, social security in the widest, deepest sense is the practical means by which personally liberating – & ultimately, socially useful – imaginative ideas are given the space to grow.”

Wrote this for the Guardian
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'The right to withdraw your labour is a fundamental civil liberty. It is as fundamental as the right to free expression or the right to protest.'

RMT’s Mick Lynch explains why the government’s new anti-union laws are a threat to democracy. tribunemag.co.uk/2023/01/mick-l…

Great rally defending the right to strike hosted by Trades Union Congress this evening.

The government want to talk minimum service levels. Why don't they start by implementing them for our schools?
- Every child to have a qualified teacher
- Every child to have the SEND support they need
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