Unite For A Workers' Economy

🇪🇸 General Strike Win!

The Spanish Government approved new measures on Thursday to limit evictions just one day after millions of people took part in a nationwide general strike and street protests over the country’s housing crisis.

The millions who have taken to the streets, not only in Spain but across Europe over the past few weeks, are an inspiration to the working class.

Every community has a breaking point where they have nothing left to lose.

With the youth in the UK under attack again, who have scant little left to have ripped away, it makes you wonder how much more our kids and grandkids are willing to take before they too are tipped over the edge.

Job cuts have consequences!

Just 2 weeks ago Microsoft announced the cutting of 60000 jobs globally.

Today, we see global meltdown of their systems including the Artificial Intelligence that will be taking over many of those jobs.

Oh, the irony! The Tokyo stock exchange are apparently even dusting off their fax machines - remember them!

It would be hilarious if it wasn't so serious for businesses and public services across the world.

£27.5bn profit in 3 months is pretty pointless if you haven't got the dedicated, skilled workforce to make sure you're business functions and can be fixed quickly when it doesn't.

Perhaps a rethink is needed Mr Nadella?

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This week, we were in Brighton to speak to delegates attending the Civil Aviation sector conference about Unite's Abuse Doesn't Fly campaign.

An amazing amount of progress has been made so far, with meetings taking place regularly with MPs, the Aviation Minister and aviation industry. But there's a long way to go to achieve our core demands across the whole sector, which are:

➡️ a clear, national, worker-led approach to abusive and disruptive passenger behaviour.
⛔️ airports and airlines to be given the power to ban disruptive and abusive passengers, and the power to coordinate between one another to make this effective.
✅minimum standards to be introduced across the industry, ensuring workers are adequately protected from abuse and properly supported when incidents do occur.

Keep up to date with the campaign here:

unitetheunion.org/campaigns/abus…

They created the game - now they want a say in the rules. Time to level up 🕹️ 🎮

Best of luck to @IWGB_GW whose recognition ballot at Rockstar Games opens today

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Recent history tells us that trying to fix complex problems by meddling with the benefits system has a habit of making things even worse. Look at the bedroom tax, the two-child limit and countless other changes

Young people today face growing up worse off than their parents with lower pay, more exploitative working conditions and no chance of ever owning their own home. That's something that was inconceivable just a few years ago.

Is it any wonder that many feel alienated?

Instead, lets see properly funded apprenticeships in the trades, free higher education for professions where we have a workforce shortage, an equalised minimum wage for young workers, building new council houses to provide secure tenancies for young families - real changes to give young people hope.

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