Sanctuary is behaving like the worst of corporate employers, but it is a non-profit organisation that should pay its workers fairly. Strikes by its London maintenance workers are growing, with new staff joining the picket line all the time. They have Unite’s backing all the way.

#IWMD2024 is just a few weeks away. Here's 3 ways to get involved.

1. Organise an event in your workplace.
2. Spread the message by sharing this graphic.
3. Honour those we have lost by posting a tribute on the Trades Union Congress Workers Memorial Wall.

More info>> unitetheunion.org/iwmd

I convene a carers discussion group.The reality is caring for someone usually means you live in poverty, with little support or respite, under immense stress. The benefits system is complex & brutal. It’s never acknowledged carers save the state billions. theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

I’m glad this scandal is coming to light. Tens of thousands of family carers have been threatened with prosecution by the government over minor breaches of benefit rules. Some forced to repay £20k or risk prison over innocent overpayments. theguardian.com/society/2024/a… Patrick Butler

Private equity owns children’s care homes.

Councils charged £30,000 p.w. or £1m per year for some children - paid from council tax.

30%-40% of money vanishes in profits.

High leverage, profits, exec pay; low wages, poor care are standard.
leftfootforward.org/2024/04/privat…
low wages,

The Conservatives have decimated the NHS.

🚨New Flexible Work Law🚨

From today *all* workers have the legal right to ask their employer for flexible working such as compressed hours, flexi-time, remote working, job-shares & set shift patterns

While not an automatic right, here’s how this law makes requests easier…

All billionaires under 30 inherited their wealth. They didn't work for it, they didn't earn it.

It's time for a tax on wealth.

Over 300,000 children were plunged into absolute poverty in 1 year at the height of the cost of living crisis.

Overall, in 2022/23 12 MILLION people were in absolute poverty.

Meanwhile, Andrea Leadsom suggests cost of living crisis is over as inflation has 'cheered everyone

🚨TOMORROW - Day of Action for Palestine

When: Saturday 23 March
Where: Your local area

Join an action for Palestine in your local area and demand our government call for Israel to end its genocidal assault on Gaza

Find your action here palestinecampaign.org/events/day-of-…

#CeasefireNOW

My (updated) The Guardian story: Politicians urged to get a grip on poverty as official figures show 300,000 more children plunged into absolute poverty in a single year at the height of the cost of living crisis theguardian.com/society/2024/m…

BREAKING 🚨 | The UN has said the Conservatives are 'demonising' disabled people through its 'traumatising' benefits system.

A special inquiry report found 'grave and systemic' violations of disabled people's rights under the Government's austerity and welfare reform measures.

Solidarity to our Unite the union: join a union comrades working for the GMB.

Trade union employers should be leading by example. It is profoundly disappointing that this is neither the case here nor across the movement as a whole.

#WeBelieveHer #Appalling meTU

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🗣️ The annual poverty figures published today confirm that the Government failed to protect the most vulnerable from the cost of living crisis. Absolute poverty, their preferred measurement, has risen for the 2nd year in a row.

💥 This rise is as big as we've seen for 40 years.

Solidarity with all debt advisers faced with high and demanding workloads, often with poor pay and conditions. We support the unionisation of workplaces and are extremely concerned by what we are hearing about this dispute Rooted Finance bit.ly/3Vo9M2p

Tomorrow's front page:

SOLIDARITY WITH DIANE - Rally presses for Starmer to restore whip

Come and join us tomorrow. The treatment of Diane Abbott this week has confirmed how necessary it is now to Stand up to Racism in our political system. Stand Up To Racism

“This isn’t about me. This is about the level of racism that exists today. This is about the disrespect that black women have to endure year, after year, decade after decade.” - DIANE ABBOTT MP

Foreign careworkers across the UK are reporting exploitation, sexual assault and sexual harassment.

But many feel powerless to complain out of fears of losing the right to work in the country.

This clear abuse of power should not be tolerated.

I urge everyone to sign this petition calling for Diane Abbott to have the whip restored.

Her treatment at the hands of Starmer has been an appalling specatacle that should shame him.

actionnetwork.org/petitions/rest…