NIC-ICTU
@nic-ictu.bsky.social
Confederation of Trade Unions representing over 200,000 workers across Northern Ireland. Part of @IrishCongress
600 executions. The work of the ghoulish, barbaric Iranian regime. Iranian woman handed death sentence for ‘blasphemy’ in social media post Rights groups warn of Tehran regime’s increasing use of executions to suppress dissent, with at least 600 this year www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Iranian woman handed death sentence for ‘blasphemy’ in social media post
Rights groups warn of Tehran regime’s increasing use of executions to suppress dissent, with at least 600 this year
theguardian.com
Very important work from the Working in Ireland Survey Read these stark statistics and then ask yourself: Can NI *not* afford #GoodJobs Bill? Kudos: @Economy_NI @ucddublin.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @economy-ni.gov.uk & NERI www.economy-ni.gov.uk/news/new-res...
My dad became a doctor in the '50s. When I was a teen, 'pro-lifers' leafleted me. So I asked him about abortions. He told me that anyone who had ever treated a woman with a septic uterus after a backstreet abortion would never be in any doubt about the importance of safe, legal abortion.
The Herald@heraldscotland.bsky.social · 3w agoThe Edinburgh International Conference Centre was among more than a dozen buildings illuminated to mark International Safe Abortion Day across the UK and Europe on Monday evening. www.heraldscotland.com/news... @joshpizpom.bsky.social
The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.
"The recklessness of the tech oligarchs pushing AI on our society has been matched only by their rampant dishonesty." - WGAE Executive Director Sam Wheeler on what Hollywood's unions think about existential AI warnings, and how policymakers should step in. Read: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
What Hollywood thinks about existential AI warnings
SAG-AFTRA and the WGA are focused on what’s actually happening now.
theverge.com
Right-wing press and ideologues will have you believe that the UK is the most heavily taxed place. They promise the impossible, European/Scandinavian levels of social security with American levels of taxation. This graph puts things in perspective.
So much of the right these days have a massive patriotism problem. This guy: - is a tax exile (left long before this govt) - hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it - laments the manufacturing hit from a Brexit he supported www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
bbc.co.uk
I don’t understand why I or anyone should care what Ratcliffe has to say or why it is on the news
Americans view unions favorably and recognize them as partners for building a just economy. Yet more than 50M nonunion workers would join a union but are unable to do so because our nation’s labor laws allow bosses to derail workers’ unionization efforts. www.epi.org/publication/...
U.S. employers spend more than $1.5 billion annually on union avoidance
Key takeaways Many U.S. employers hire union avoidance consultants to keep their workers from organizing and bargaining for better pay and working conditions. We estimate that employers spend roughly ...
epi.org
A genuinely consequential journalist. And thoroughly decent man. A life well lived. @irishtimes.com
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · last mo.Frank McDonald, former environment editor of The Irish Times, has died
Shuler: It’s time to put the full weight of the labor movement behind candidates who will actually deliver… We’re going to turn out union voters and their families on a scale we never have before. We’re training 50,000 election protectors to staff every battleground district in the country.
So-called right-to-work (RTW) laws undermine workers’ ability to form unions. Unionization rates are clearly lower in RTW states—and since unions raise wages, that suppression lowers pay. The latest from @elisegould.bsky.social and Emma Cohn examines the economic impact of RTW 👇 1/7 #econsky
Wages are lower in “right-to-work” states: These states have lower unionization rates and more anti-worker policies
Key takeaways: So-called right-to-work (RTW) laws undermine workers’ ability to form unions. Unionization rates are clearly lower in RTW states—and since unions raise wages, that suppression lowers pa...
epi.org
The moment anyone tells you you shouldn’t join a union, urgently look around for a union to join.
Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 2mo agoOpinion | Postdocs Aren’t Burger Flippers: Why Unionization Is a Bad Idea Unionization disrupts the bespoke mentor-mentee relationships that are central to the advancement of science. By Evan D. Morris: https://bit.ly/3Sus7fa #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
Getting my job back at the Washington Post would not have been possible if it wasn’t for me belonging to a union. @postguild.bsky.social and @wbng.org are the unions I belong to. I was able to challenge my wrongful termination because of the collective bargaining agreement / union contract!
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New poll suggests six in 10 voters fear Irish Sea border on workers’ rights being created as DUP blocks Good Jobs Bill
Six in 10 voters here are concerned about an Irish Sea border developing on workers’ rights as the DUP blocks Sinn Féin’s Good Jobs Bill.
belfasttelegraph.co.uk
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
"Nigel Farage has spent years asking awkward questions about everyone else's money [Tonight] Channel 5 turns the telescope around. "Nigel Farage: Where Does the Money Come From?" will examine Reform UK leader's finances, including donors, companies, gifts, outside earnings" via Truth Against Hate
A Scottish Tory peer has spoken out in defence of using the N-word. Nigel Biggar argued in a blogpost that it is 'stupidly unjust' for people to be punished for using the N-word if they did not mean it in a racist way. Read more: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
In all the talk of a possible Stormont collapse, this is a bit of a bombshell.
As with so many part of the UK public realm, there's a graph and it shows "something happened in 2010 and we became a society with lesser public capacity to respond to unexpected challenges"
Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 2mo agoThere are a quarter fewer firefighters in England than there were before 2010.
Excellent research that begs the following questions: 1. Why are OFCOM failing to act? 2. Why has the Online Safety Act, an abuser's charter, not been replaced? 3. What is the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Lisa Nandy doing to sanction hostile actors and states? [1/2]
Most X accounts posting about Belfast and Southampton unrest were based outside UK
Exclusive: Analysis shows 55% of accounts were overseas – and seven of 12 most-read posts came from US
theguardian.com
Due to involvement of paramilitaries in pogroms while the PSNI pretended otherwise, firefighters had to liaise with their leaders for permission to put out fires. “Firefighters had no doubt about paramilitary influence and sought permission from their leaders before tackling blazes, sources said.”
The night Belfast burned: how the Northern Ireland race riots unfolded
A stabbing in June sparked another summer’s night of racial violence, stoked by loyalist groups. How did the unrest erupt – and why do many fear it will happen again?
theguardian.com
This is a really inadequate Home Office statement in these circumstancds It empathises with this protest as expressing legitimate concerns, singles out violence against police, and simply fails to say "violence threatening asylum seekers, migrants & other minorities is shocking + wrong"
