PCS Yorkshire & Humber

There is hardly any fraud in the disability benefits system.

In response to my parliamentary questions, the DWP says just 0.2% of personal independence payment (PIP) spending is due to fraud.

Today I called for an end to the scapegoating of disabled people on benefits.

‘Rising star’: Europe made more electricity from solar than coal in 2024 Report reveals solar power generated 11% of Europe’s electricity, surpassing coal at 10% Europe made more electricity from sunshine than coal last year, a report has found, in what analysts called a “milestone” for the clean energy transition. Solar…

‘Rising star’: Europe made more electricity from solar than coal in 2024

Hardly worth debunking this xenophobic garbage from Telegraph.

FWIW they seem to to have taken the (implausible) upper bound of @pewresearch.org's old, completely debunked estimate (1.2 m) and then assigning a % of those to London.

And then got London's actual population wrong!

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🚨NEW| Employment Rights Bill (ERB) resources by the @ieruk.bsky.social

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The ramping up of government consumption and investment will mean a growing public
sector workforce .

In a cooling labour market, rising public employment could serve as a welcome shock-absorber.

Join the Fight for Wealth Taxes, not Cuts! Tens have thousands are backing Richard Burgon's call for Wealth Taxes. It's time for the super-rich to pay their fare share. Join the campaign for Wealth Taxes today.

UK billionaires' wealth has skyrocketed in recent years.

▪️2013: £246 Billion
▪️2023: £684 Billion

We don't need more cuts - we need to tax extreme wealth.

That's what I'm fighting for. Sign up below to join my campaign to make the super-rich pay up.

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#Amazon #boss in #awkward #interview #money #work TikTok video by TradesUnionCongress

WATCH: Amazon bosses squirm and repeatedly FAIL to answer the question:

If Amazon is such a great employer, why have your workers gone on strike so much?

Just two weeks ago at #PMQs SNP MP Graham Leadbitter asked

"How many more #WASPI women have to die before the Government take action to give them the financial redress and justice that they are due?"

Starmer replied: "We are moving at pace on all relevant issues"

Clear implication help was coming

Thanks for your brilliant support @picketlinepoetry.bsky.social

PCS tells Starmer – boost workers’ pay! PCS says the government's pay announcement is "not a good sign if this is the shape of things to come".

"The Prime Minister won’t achieve his aim of boosting people’s living standards without boosting workers’ pay.”

Fran Heathcote @pcsunion.bsky.social tells Starmer to boost workers’ pay!
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Nigel Farage tweets a picture of him meeting Elon Musk.

It's super simple.

A very rich man.

Backing the politicians.

That will do very good things.

For very rich men.

Conservative MPs Want to Scrap Workers' Rights to Paid Holiday and Annual Leave They are also seeking to overturn workplace protections from sexual harassment, calling them an attack on "free speech"

🔴Conservative MPs Want to Scrap Workers’ Rights to Paid Holiday and Annual Leave

They are also seeking to overturn workplace protections from sexual harassment, calling them an attack on “free speech”
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Congratulations to @pcsunion.bsky.social, who were the first union to face these tactics, and have now beaten them both by strength of organising ten years ago and decisively in the courts yesterday.

This is a great Supreme Court win for PCS, after a cynical government campaign to kill off the union with a bureacratic change. The Tories unilaterally cancelled payroll deduction for union dues in 2014, giving the union too little notice to find replacement ways to bill members. ...

I welcome the arrest warrants against Israeli PM Netanyahu & his former Defence Minister.

Their barbaric crimes are clear for all to see.

Our Government must commit to enforcing these arrest warrants.

And Governments must now end arms sales and impose sanctions on Israel to stop more war crimes.

ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant and Hamas commander International Criminal Court judges say there are “reasonable grounds” they bore

The ICC arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant and Mohammed Deif make clear that to continue selling arms to Israel is to aid and abet war crimes. It is utterly indefensible.

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BREAKING 🚨| 400 workers at Morrisons Rathbones bakery in Wakefield are at risk of losing their jobs.

Last year, Morrisons made £14.9 billion profit.

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Iceland’s shorter working week has been a huge success – and it’s changed my family’s life | María Hjálmtýsdóttir For 90% of working Icelanders, a 36-hour week means less stress, more job satisfaction and time to enjoy life beyond work I like to walk around old cemeteries and read the headstones. Here in Iceland, it has been customary to engrave people’s job titles…

Iceland’s shorter working week has been a huge success – and it’s changed my family’s life | María Hjálmtýsdóttir

Facilitate magazine headline: HALF OF UK BUSINESSES 'READY TO ADOPT 4-DAY WORK WEEK'

According to a recent survey, “UK business leaders are open to new workplace trends, with 50% open to trialling a four-day work week.”

In other words:

There’s a 50/50 chance your boss is open to a 4-day week.

Got to be worth asking them, don’t you think? 🤔

Remember all those endless stories about the 'scandal' of Labour making political appointments to temporary civil service posts after the election?

Well a new independent Civil Service Commission report finds that such appointments were "considerably" higher under the last Conservative government.

Sharp rise in number of children growing up in poverty in working households The Universal Credit is fundamentally flawed and needs to be reformed. No child should live in poverty in our country. We need an urgent economic reset and a government that will make work pay.

The last government left:

3 million children in working households in poverty

Stagnant wages

Public services ravaged by neglect & austerity.

But you’re angry because a Labour government wants to end tax breaks for Clarkson & Dyson?

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Raw sewage from new homes being flushed into London rivers Raw sewage is being dumped into London's rivers from at least 100 homes, a charity finds.

Raw sewage from new homes being flushed into river.

Back to the 19th century.

Did Thames Water and developers not know?

That's what you get with privatisation of essential services, deregulation of planning.

Govt promising more housing deregulation.
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England’s national parks facing financial peril due to budget cuts, say CEOs Exclusive: Leaders warn cost savings will lead to mass redundancies and that spaces could become ‘paper parks’ England’s national parks face a 12% real-terms cut to their budget which would lead to mass redundancies of wardens and the closure of visitor…

England’s national parks facing financial peril due to budget cuts, say CEOs

A few facts about Labour's Budget and farmers.

Headline translation: Multi-millionaire who bought farm to take advantage of tax break, upset he will lose tax break. 🤷🏻‍♂️

The same newspapers who scream increases in the NMW will damage the economy, are happy to go to the barricades for a tax break for Clarkson, Dyson & friends.

Say yes and think about it later Megan blogs about how she got more active in PCS and why other young members should take their places as the future of the union.

For #YoungWorkersMonth have a read of @pcsyh Young Members Convenor on how she got involved in the unin. www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...

A UN Special Committee has found Israel’s methods of warfare in Gaza are consistent with genocide.

I will be seeking to raise this in Parliament this week.

Chart showing household housing cost to income ratio (gross of housing benefit) for low-to-middle income families, by tenure type: GB/UK

Privately renting low-to-middle income families spend over two-fifths of their income on housing costs on average.

In 2022-23, 29 per cent of low-to-middle income households were renting in the private sector, An increase of more than 50% from 1994-95 when only 18% did.

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Campaigners to demonstrate on 21st November when Matt Hancock gives evidence to the Covid Inquiry By Covid Action UK Members of several Covid groups, including Covid Action, Doctors in UNITE and Covid Bereaved Families for Justice, will be demonstrating at both 9am and 1pm on Thursday 21st November outside the Covid Inquiry1 where the former Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, is due to give evidence.  Joseph Healy from Covid Action, who has been attending the Inquiry as an observer, said: “All through this module of the Inquiry, dealing with what happened in the NHS during the first and second waves of the virus, we have heard about how NHS staff and patients were hung out to dry by an arrogant and uncaring government.

Campaigners to demonstrate on 21st November when Matt Hancock gives evidence to the Covid Inquiry

By Covid Action UK Members of several Covid groups, including Covid Action, Doctors in UNITE and Covid Bereaved Families for Justice, will be demonstrating at both 9am and 1pm on Thursday 21st…

🚨The democratic right to strike must be universal - that’s why I’m standing with the POA Union YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

Tens of thousands of workers have been stripped of their democratic right to strike, their trade union slapped with six-figure fines for standing up for the rights of its members & their leaders threatened with imprisonment - damn right I’m standing with the POA Union

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