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Being proud of your upbringing is not ‘class envy’, sister!

I remember my Dad telling me what it was like to be a bus driver in times of extreme heat. I’ve instructed TfL to contact every bus operator to make sure our drivers know their safety is always a priority, especially in these conditions ⬇️

Yes, Binster - Outsourcing in practice. 🚨 There’s been plenty of talk this past week about the state of outsourcing in Britain, including @pollytoynbee’s apt piece in the Guardian. theguardian.com/commentisfree/… Behind the headlines are real people with real lives, facing real consequences. When an outsourced contract goes to a profit-making company, the first job of the winning bidder is to deliver ‘efficiencies’. Efficiencies come in all shapes and sizes. The most common? Cuts to terms, conditions, wage growth, pensions and people. The money saved rarely goes back into the service. It goes into private profit and leaves the public sector for good. The work piles up on fewer staff. The quality drops. Then a vicious cycle sets in. A revolving door of workers come and go, because the contracts don’t pay enough or offer sufficient hours to build a career on. Service quality falls further still. Counterintuitively, this is used as ‘evidence’ by many on the Right to prove that the state is crumbling and what is needed is: further efficiencies, further cuts, further privatisation. For those outsourcing the contract, whether an NHS hospital, local authority, or other public body, there is an additional incentive to outsource what is predominantly working class jobs; jobs which are done by those who are from disproportionately ethnic minorities. Namely, that outsourced workers do not appear in any public authority’s ethnicity pay gap reporting. Why solve the problem of ethnicity pay gaps when you can simply fudge the figures by deleting low-paid sections of your workforce from appearing as directly employed? So we applaud any politician willing to bring outsourced contracts back in-house. In many instances, outsourcing is a false economy, as it doesn’t serve the public good nor the people delivering the service. Cooks. Cleaners. Waste operatives. Security guards. Maintenance workers. Across town halls, council depots and public buildings, the same pattern repeats: exploitation and decline. For our union these aren’t abstract points. Every day we stand with the workers kept out of public view, facing major issues at work. They are the cogs that keep the country clean, fed and safe. A hidden army whose livelihoods are squeezed so that every drip of profit can fill the cup of those without dirt under their fingernails. Take this past week. One employer. One public building. One set of disposable people. The workplace? @UKParliament . The Mother of all Parliaments, the home of workers’ rights, the place where laws protecting working people are written. The winning cleaning contractor? Churchill. A play in three acts. Act 1: The contract (2024) Churchill put in the most competitive bid and beat the field. At least they say so. The terms of the contract? They aren’t available to read due to being ‘commercially sensitive.’ They inherit the existing cleaners and take control of the lucrative parliamentary cleaning operation. Hundreds of staff, multiple buildings, one job: keep Parliament spotless. Act 2: Death by a thousand cuts (2024 onward) The first redundancies begin. Compulsory at first, but after a GMB-led campaign where over 150 politicians protest, they’re cut back to voluntary redundancies. Churchill blames Parliament’s contract. Parliament blame Churchill. Two landlords pointing at each other while the people who clean their floors lose their jobs. Accountability for public money? Nowhere to be found. Act 3: The midway point (2026) Cut deeper. Cut faster. Nearly 50 cleaners told their time is up, all in the name of savings. This is the building that legislates on workers’ rights. The same building that won’t protect the workers inside it. Order, order. Just not for them. @LindsayHoyle_MP, these are your cleaners. They keep your Parliament running. In less than 24 hours, nearly 50 of them lose their jobs on the people’s estate. You can look the other way. Or you can act. Parliament should be the single employer of every worker on this estate, not a landlord hiding behind a contractor. Before you blame the politicians, remember they have no say in this. Their ability to fix the contract has been outsourced. The irony. Tomorrow, it’s Parliament. But this story is not unique to Parliament, this pattern repeats itself in every corner of the country. Another Britain is possible.

Good things can happen - if you fight for it. After campaigning from @pcs_union, today the government announced that thousands of outsourced low-paid workers are to be brought in house. They will see a massive improvement to their pay and conditions.

14th June 2017 - still no justice

Complaining about nightlife when you *checks notes* choose to live in Soho is like living in South Kensington and complaining about the museums.

Or moving to Hackney and grumbling about creatives. Living in Richmond and hating green space. 

It's all getting a bit silly, isn't it?

Henry Nowak’s father’s words outside court, who is probably the person we most need to hear from today.

@Iridescent1985 @Ken_Stonger @ZackPolanski You know exactly who I am given you seem to comment on all my posts online !

They’re smiling, but tonight the Greens chose to hand control of Enfield Council to the Tories. @ZackPolanski can you explain this to progressive voters in Enfield? Message is clear: vote Green, get Tory.

@DylanRoquesGrn @ZackPolanski You greens are working over time defending your Tory pals !!!!!

@EdaCaz @ZackPolanski 😭😭 we’re not letting you guys in, if you want control win more seats than the Tories I guess…. Actually ridiculous you think your entitled to our votes in a formation (you’re not)

@bobbybobbyrees @ZackPolanski There’s nothing “case by case” about helping install a Tory administration. Why not just join the Tories @ZackPolanski

@EdaCaz @ZackPolanski The Greens have consistently argued that they will work on a case-by-case basis to protect local services and deliver on manifesto- specifically finding common ground with the Tories in opposing Labour’s massive "new town" housing plans on local Green Belt land!

@OmarBaggili @ZackPolanski Well, you seem remarkably relaxed about helping install a Tory led council in Enfield. So spare me the lectures about progressive politics 👋

@EdaCaz @ZackPolanski I mean that's absolute nonsense. They'll vote case by case as they said they woukd before the elections. Now can you answer my question or not?

@OmarBaggili @ZackPolanski My point is that tonight the Greens proved there is no real difference between them and the Tories in Enfield.

@EdaCaz @ZackPolanski Are you actually trying to make out that there's difference between the Tories and Labour? Which one out of the two has said there's an ongoing genocide in Gaza and are willing to divest council pension funds linked to Israeli settlements or arms companies?

Let that sink in: Riot police storm a political party more than a century old, the very party founded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk himself

Bugün bir milattır. Bugünün öncesi vardır. Sonrası olacaktır…

This time next week: the biggest Eid celebrations in London. Everyone's invited.

@metecoban92 @SadiqKhan @alevcazim take inspiration

Not everyone grows up with access to affordable places to swim. That’s why I’m excited that soon the Mayor of London @SadiqKhan will be announcing our new plan to clean up London’s rivers and create more swimmable sites across our city 🏊🏻‍♂️

Gemma Collins is in the building and she's got questions. Coming soon📷 @bphillipsonMP