UNISON activist Scotland
Scotland
Joined June 2008
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“Women in Turkey took to the streets on #InternationalDayForTheEliminationOfViolenceAgainstWomen to protest rising femicides and the withdrawal from the #IstanbulConvention. Despite bans & arrests, their voices remain. #25Kasım #EndViolenceAgainstWomen spotturkey.co.uk/women-denie…
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Turkish government replaces 3 pro-Kurdish mayors with state trustees, sparking protests and restrictions on public gatherings. DEM wows to challenge. #Turkey #KurdishRights #Democracy #Mardin #Batman #Sanliurfa #PoliticalFreedom #AhmetTürk #HumanRights spotturkey.co.uk/turkish-gov…
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All welcome to this free lunchtime event! Weds 6th Nov. A radical reflection on asylum, the growth of the far right & the role of social work. Follow link for details & sign up. @unisonscot @ScotsSW @socworkscot @justrightscot
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Our annual St Andrew's Day Anti-Racism and Anti-Fascism march in Glasgow celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, commemorating Scotland's enduring commitment to inclusivity and opposition to far-right ideologies. All welcome
📅 Sat, 30 November
⏰ 10:30am
📍 Glasgow Green
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Great mtg with N.Lanarkshire Unison activists today to discuss sports centre workplace twinning with @CFTUU members in Kharkiv. Practical solidarity will follow - watch this space... @USCScotland @UkraineSol @unisonscot @stephenfs
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🆘 **Outrage in Turkey as New Law Leads to Mass Slaughter of Stray Animals** 🆘
Shocking reports of animal cruelty are emerging after Turkey's new legislation.
#Turkey #AnimalRights #StrayAnimals #AnimalCruelty #AKP #EndAnimalAbuse #Altındağ
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
One of Glasgow’s most prominent bar owners has *sacked * the chair of @GlasgowUnite days after he asked for time-off for @ScottishTUC & @unitetheunion youth conferences. No warning, disciplinary or representative.
This is trade union victimisation pure & simple.
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Members of the UK's biggest union, Unison, are organising to pass a strong Ukraine solidarity motion at their conference in June.
Here Unison NEC member @edwhitby explains and plugs their event on 27 May with Ukrainian trade unionists + @johnmcdonnellMP: bit.ly/unisonukraine
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Join us next Wednesday (22nd) alongside @USCScotland 🇺🇦🏴
Colin Turbett, of our Care Reform group will join @IvannaFPU, Youth leader of the largest trade union federation in Ukraine, and @stephenfs of @unisonscot to report on his recent visit.
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1 Kharkiv day 5. Met with lead city social work & TU figures in the badly damaged Palace of Labour L-R Lyudmilla pres. of the social workers union, Irina SW manager, Svetlana Dep. Mayor of city & SW manager, Sergey pres. TU Confed for region, Larissa SW manager.
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Trade union training center destroyed by Russian rocket in Ukrainian city Chernihiv. Also the University hospital damaged, people died, health workers injured.
These attacks have no other objective than to force Ukrainian workers, the unions into submission.
Russia to leave
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Kharkiv day 4. Met with reps of the trade union for disabled employees. Evening meal with Valentina's family & friends in their 16th floor flat in Nawcova. We toasted victory, resilience, courage, international friendship & solidarity over a feast of Ukrainian dishes. Great folk
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🚨BREAKING 🚨
13th Note workers have WON their Employment Tribunal against the owner of the bar after the iconic venue was closed without notice.
The Judge held that the owner failed to consult with workers at all, awarding maximum compensation to all claimants.
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Leaders of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine from Lviv Oblast have returned from Donetsk region after a mission. They delivered disguised nets, medicines, products, building materials, and more to miners and workers bravely defending #Ukraine
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Kyiv's palatial railway station has a fantastic @UNICEF staffed family and play area - offering advice as well as recreation - for those whose family life disrupted by Russia's aggression, at a place of farewells as well as reunions. @socworkscot @ScotsSW
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Last night, as a result of a repeated enemy drone attack on Kharkiv, three Ukrainian rescuers were killed.
The Russian troops employ the tactic of double missile strikes, targeting rescuers and medical workers who arrive at the scene of shelling to aid victims.
It's a war crime
Масована атака дронами по Харкову: 4 людей загинули, серед них троє рятувальників
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Stephen Smellie retweeted
On this day 50 years ago, Bob Fulton refused to repair the Chilean Air Force engine at his work desk in protest against General Pinochet's military coup six months earlier.
The engine powered Hawker Hunter jets, which had been used on the day of the coup to bomb Santiago.
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Enjoyed the @unisonscot International Solidarity celebration in Glasgow tonight highlighting the plight of the Palestinians & Kurds - and Ukraine. So proud to have comrades like these @RozaSalih Kate Ramsden & @stephenfs
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@stephenfs speaking @ @SERAScotland fringe at #ScotLab24 on a Just Transition. A green economy needs to value the new jobs we will have as well as existing ones like care. We need to transition whole economy to deliver the resources to meet the climate challenge & create jobs.
