Lord John Hendy (John is a KC and one of the country’s leading experts in UK Labour laws) joined the #BarnetStrikers picket line today
#BarnetTen #BarnetUNISON #EnoughIsEnough #CostOfLivingCrisis #BarnetResidents
LordHendyKC Institute of Employment Rights Morning Star Orgreave Justice LGSM

On Saturday I spoke to HackneyUNISON & Hackney Libraries staff members about the impact of the planned job cuts, which are extensive

To support crucial library staff, join the demo at 5pm outside Hackney town hall tonight and sign the petition below 👇🏾

megaphone.org.uk/petitions/save…

Very expensive suit walks in without a mask to use a computer.
Me: Hello you are welcome to use our computers we just need you to wear a mask while you are here.
Him: Why's that then.
Me: It's part of our covid regulations as we are very short staffed.

#BarnetStrikers Picket line Day 6
Please support the #BarnetTen
#BarnetUNISON #EnoughIsEnough #CostOfLivingCrisis #BarnetResidents

Due to staff shortages, Port Glasgow Library will be closed today, Monday 24 October 2022.
Other branches are open as normal and Port Glasgow Library will be open as usual tomorrow, Tuesday 25 October 2022.
Visit inverclyde.gov.uk/libraries for opening times and more information.

Interesting article about House of Commons Librarian, Georgina Sturge, in The Times, but why is ‘librarians’ in quotation marks? Librarians have always answered questions, carried out research & provided data. Also, spare us the tired old cliches about ‘spinsters’.

Nurses as heroes? Think again 👇

'The hero discourse is not a neutral expression of appreciation and sentimentality, but rather a tool employed to accomplish multiple aims such as the normalization of nurses’ exposure to risk'
- sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Solidarity with the Barnet Unison strikers.(((barnet_unison)))

Solidarity #BarnetStrikers ✊

SO tired of NHS Staff being accused of putting people at risk by even considering strike action!

We’re not the ones putting people at risk, it’s the Tories! That’s why every corner of the health service is being balloted & we’re taking our fight to this excuse of a Government 👊

A BONFIRE OF WORKERS RIGHTS
Join Ben Sellers & Laura Pidcock for an urgent discussion next Thursday 27 October

We are on the cusp of a severe attack on trade union freedoms this country has seen - how do we respond?

ONSITE & ONLINE
eventbrite.co.uk/e/onsite-onlin…

Google is moving to 2 step verification next week and on behalf of the library workers and others helping those with low digital literacy access their email, I send my least enthusiastic thanks. This will make all of our lives more frustrating.

Strike Pay Donations to Barnet UNISON

Industrial Action Fund either
by cheque, postal order or bank transfer

Cheques and Post Orders payable to

Barnet UNISON Industrial Action Fund.

bank transfer. BUIAF

Sort Code 608301

Account Number 20039336 ✊🏻

It seems like the right time to point people towards The Battle of Cable Street by Tanya Landman. Written with her usual dramatic flair, it tells the story of the rise of fascism in the East End during the 1930s. It's the perfect introduction to a very complex topic. Y6 and up.

Cycle ride around the estates of the Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury with Marq Bailey and Andy Bates, featuring the work of Tecton, and Emberton, Franck & Tardrew. First stop: Stafford Cripps estate, Emberton.

A 'tough choice' is deciding whether to feed your children or heat your home.

Austerity is not a tough choice. It is a political choice to wage class warfare on the most vulnerable.

The right choice is taxing the rich, public ownership, and a redistribution of wealth & power.

As the Workforce Rep on the DCMS Libraries Taskforce I try to represent and give a voice to Public Library Workers so please get in touch if you’d like me to raise concerns/issues/ideas with them ✊️
#protectlibraryworkers

It's Day 68 of #Londonlocalauthoritymarathon and we've reached the former Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury. First up are some extracts from an official guide featuring a distinctive town-halls-and-transport cover design that Burrows adopted for a number of guides in the mid-20s.