Nikki Osborne

🚨 I am delighted to have been elected as UNISON's next General Secretary. This is a win for ordinary UNISON members. Read my statement below:

Westminster is broken.

First test of Mayor Campbell’s support for green energy - unanimous approval by the new Hull & East Yorks combined authority executive board to support £1.6m funding bid for solar energy projects on public buildings/land. Final decision rests with @GBEgovuk

Interesting to observe the meeting today. The green agenda ambitions of the combined authority completely at odds Reform ideology. Not sure how Luke Campell will square this circle.

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The irony of today’s mayoral election in Hull & East Yorks is that no-one was allowed a vote on whether to have a mayor in the first place. Had there been a referendum, I strongly suspect today’s election wouldn’t be happening at all. 🧵

Another day, another disabled person abandoned on a train. These experiences are common. But for one our most successful Paralympians to experience this on her way to the games is a striking reminder of the reality of disabled life🧵

🧵Mentioned an interesting name among those arrested last week over the Hull riots. Today William (Bill) Riley pleaded guilty to violent disorder and assaulting a police officer. He was jailed for 18 months. hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east…

We are appealing for help in finding a 14-year-old boy who is believed to be missing in #Merseyside. Louie was last seen in #Walton on Monday 22 July. You can pass on any sightings of Louis via our form: orlo.uk/PZs6s orlo.uk/ymPSL

Trans people need to be able to exist safely as themselves with respect & dignity, and with equal access to adequately funded healthcare. I support & stand in solidarity with the trans community —including young trans people — for whom puberty blockers are a life-saving measure.

I’ve met young people who’ve been prescribed puberty blockers. Some told me they’d helped lift them from depression & probably saved their life. A blanket ban is wrong & not what Cass recommended. Careful, clinical provision is the way forward, not this politicisation.

EXCLUSIVE: We’ve gone undercover inside Nigel Farage’s Reform UK campaign in Clacton and found evidence of anti-migrant rhetoric, homophobia and one canvasser making racist and offensive remarks. As @DarshnaSoni reports.

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This is very strange, I can't find the "human rights lawyer" Keir Starmer's statement on the ICC warrant against Netanyahu. I wonder why that might be?

“YOU FU*KING MUSLIM C*NTS!” Anyone recognise this coward who hurled Islamophobic abuse at female pro-Palestine activists today in Romford? @metpoliceuk

World Central Kitchen is devastated to confirm seven members of our team have been killed in an IDF strike in Gaza. Read our full statement on the loss of our team members here: wck.org/news/gaza-team…

This is absolute nonsense Kemi and you know it. I met you alongside other colleagues over a year and a half ago and the definition was explained to you in detail - you were asked to detail your concerns / any objections and the basis of it . You DID NOT follow up. Instead all work on Islamophobia ( or whatever you feel we are allowed to call our racism ) has stopped. Ministers do not even engage with the governments OWN cross government working group on your preferred “anti Muslim hatred” The government has dragged its heels on any work to tackle this form of racism. The only structures and programs that still survive are what we put in place during a Cameron government over a decade ago. Amazing flagship programs like Remembering Srebrenica have been defunded. No new initiatives , no engagement with communities , no definition Instead culture wars , othering and blatant anti Muslim racism. As for “blasphemy laws” - you know this isn’t true , as was explained and evidenced in our meeting and as you are well aware the definition like the IHRA definition on antisemitism is a NON legally binding working definition not a “law” PS- just so colleagues word sensibilities are not triggered - the World will in a few weeks mark the United Nations International day to combat #Islamophobia.

We've been hearing examples of how migrant workers in our region are being treated by their employers. This is one of them. @unisontheunion is committed to helping migrant workers. If you know someone in a similar situation, please let them know. yorks.unison.org.uk/migrant-worker…

This idiot is our health secretary. She thinks 'junior doctors' are 'doctors in training'. The reality is that they are all hospital doctors who are not consultants - in other words, the majority of all doctors, and many of them have considerable experience. Is she being deliberately insulting, or is she just gratuitously rude?

Current NHS starting salaries: Junior doctor £32.4k Nurse £28.4k Paramedic £28.4k Midwife £28.4k Radiographer £28.4k Healthcare assistant £22.8k Physiotherapist £28.4k Dietician £28.4k Occupational therapist £28.4k Are you actually *trying* to destroy the NHS, @JamesCleverly?

Every time we think things cannot get any more apocalyptic in #Gaza, they do.