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The UK and Ireland's largest trade union. Fighting for #JobsPayConditions. Join at: http://unitetheunion.org/join

🚨 FTSE 100 average CEO pay busts the £5m mark for the first time. 💰💰 If companies can afford to spend millions on pay, bonuses, shares and pensions for bosses, they can afford a living wage for workers.

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🌭 Workers making some of the UK’s biggest food brands are still on the picket line in a fight for fair pay and decent conditions This week they are in crucial negotiations. Please share and tell Pilgrims and their clients like Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury's to pay up! 📣

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90 years since the Battle of Cable Street & we still stand together against division 📣 Join us in Shoreditch Sat Oct 3 for a night of music, solidarity & resistance with SPORTS BANGER & King Alpha Sound System... 100% of ticket funds will be donated to workers on strike 🎟️ Tickets cutt.ly/NyxG0SDv

📣 "We want to be fighting cancer. That's what we love to do. But we've been forced onto the picket line" Ahead of critical talks & after 60 days of strikes it's time for @icr.ac.uk to pay their researchers fairly Please help these vital workers get their voices heard. 📺 Watch & ♻️ share their story

💰💰💰“There has never been a better time to be a billionaire. A record 3,428 made this year’s World Billionaires list” Forbes' Rich List. The time has come to make the rich pay their fair share. Read JUST HOW RICH the billionaires are in Facts & Figures unitetheunion.org/fandf p53

💰 Huge pay rises for failing execs: 💧 Thames Water CEO Chris Weston saw his salary increase by 13.6% in a year to just under ONE MILLION pounds (£995k). And CFO Steve Buck saw his pay go up over a quarter (26%) to £630k. 📈 Meanwhile average water bills will rise by 5.4% to £639 a year in England.

💰💰💰 Energy giants are making record profits while households face record bills. 📈 BP's quarterly profits more than doubled to £4.27bn in just three months to the end of June ⏰ Time to tax excessive profits and wealth!

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🏦Workers like Kwasi work for some of our largest banks and companies. It can be hard work, tough hours & pay & job security are often poor. But workers are organising to improve their work. Give this essential insight into the working life of Europe's cleaners a listen and a share 👂♻️

UNI Europa@uni-europa.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"As a migrant working here… it's not easy, and it has never been easy." In today's episode of our podcast "Unsung: Cleaners", we hear from Kwasi from Ghana who cleaned the London offices of one of the world’s largest investment banks for 20 years. Listen now @macrodosepod.bsky.social.

💰 “There has never been a better time to be a billionaire” says @forbes.com There are now 3,428 billionaires in the world, up 400 on 2025. Instead of being taxed the super-rich are spanking this wealth on super yachts. There are 210,000 of them bobbing on the sea, costing between $500k & a billion

📣 Tax the rich and renationalise utilities. These are what our supporters told us should be Andy Burnham's new government's priorities. Here's what some of Unite's Executive members say should take priority ⤵️

🚨Ulster University is planning to scrap 450 jobs. 😡Terrible news for workers 😡Terrible news for students 😡Terrible news for communities in Northern Ireland 📢You can help: Share & comment on Edward's appeal; contact Ulster University; write to your MP or MLA

⌛ You'd have had to start working in 1896 for the average UK worker to earn the same as the average FTSE100 CEO! 📈 Executive pay went up another 8.6% last year 💰 AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot pocketed £17.7m

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🤯2 headlines to blow your mind! 💰Thames CEO trousers a £100k rise And demands clarity on ownership of his company, debt-ridden and accused of pumping sewage into our rivers & seas. 🚰It’s not just bosses who want urgent clarity water ownership. We do too. Will you bring water back into public hands?

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🚫"It's always been a melting pot round here." Kay's grandparents fought off Moseley's fascists in Cable Street 90 years ago. Her message to the far right today? "You didn't win then. And you ain't gonna win now!"