What has Andy McDonald been up to today?
Andy McDonald is MP for Middlesbrough and a member of the Labour party.
Andy McDonald has 51265 followers on Twitter.
What an odd thing to say!
So Grant has had block systems explained to him and the technological improvements that have been developing for years.
Congratulations..and your point is?
And what the hell has that got to do with the proper requests of the workforce?
Very strange.
Interesting quote from @grantshapps https://twitter.com/grantshapps/status/1542059391389765632
Tell them, @DaveWardGS 👏 https://twitter.com/ronanburtenshaw/status/1541916664589172736
“There’s a deep structural imbalance of power and wealth in this country.
“There’s always another crisis and it’s always workers who pay the price. People have had enough.”
- @DaveWardGS
Brilliant expose by my friend and neighbour @ACunninghamMP
We need a full and proper investigation into the die offs and fishers shouldn’t have to crowd find to commission their own scientific analysis.
That’s government’s job.
It's time to re-open the DEFRA investigation into dead crustaceans washing up on our shores, leave no stone unturned, and support the local fishing industry.
Pleased to secure a Westminster Hall Debate today to give voice to those affected by the ongoing crustaceans deaths.
Our #foreignsecretary, Ladies and Gentlemen. https://twitter.com/bestforbritain/status/1541735815067435010
Truss says she "raises human rights issues with Gulf leaders all the time". Her spokesman says she hasn't. Asked by @RhonddaBryant to name a single occasion, she cannot.
This is Brexit's wider context: not just the alliance we trashed, but what alliances it's forcing us into.~AA
WOW. Watch to the end.
Terse exchange, after @johnmcdonnellMP probes cabinet secretary Simon Case on the PM trying to appoint Carrie as his chief of staff.
- "An investigation [into the PM] under the ministerial code can only be initiated by the PM."
- "Is he not keen?" ~AA
THIS GOVERNMENT JUST CAN’T STOP LYING https://twitter.com/PeterStefanovi2/status/1541801258188787714
Nurses, doctors, teachers, firefighters & millions of other public sector workers will be delighted to learn from Government Minister Chris Philp that “Over the last ten years public sector wages have kept up with inflation”
Yet again the Tories show utter contempt for the very notion of devolution.
Riding roughshod over duly elected legislatures does nothing to further the cause of the union of the United Kingdom.
If Tories really believe in the UK they need to respect the nations within it.
These proposals are an assault on workers’ rights and the will of the Welsh people.
Any attempt to undermine how devolved public services operate, as well as legislation passed by @SeneddWales, will be met with the fiercest of opposition.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-61965221
Well said Dan but the Minister fails to grasp who the real wealth creators are.
Workers are the true wealth creators, but don't get a fair share of the rewards.
The Government's political choice to supress workers' wages instead of taxing executive pay packets and excess profits shows whose side they are on.
This is a terrific initiative.
Later today we will be launching our radical basic income pilot.
Simply put – this scheme gives care leavers a guaranteed monthly income to help set them on a path to live healthy, happy and fulfilling lives.
We'll explain in more detail in today’s press conference.
Instead of trying to resolve the rail dispute the Tories are using it as another excuse to attack trade unions my piece for @LabourList https://labourlist.org/2022/06/breaking-strikes-using-agency-workers-is-recklessly-gambling-with-public-safety/
In the pandemic year of 2020, these Roscos paid out a whopping £949 million in dividends. Angel paid an £822 million dividend to its Jersey-based parent company, Willow Topco Ltd.
https://bit.ly/3nnxedT
Johnson will always opt for a lie when the truth doesn’t suit him which is all day every day.
Let’s put the record straight @reece_dinsdale @reid6peter @CAA_Official @RealGaryWebster @BarringtonMole @campbellclaret https://twitter.com/peterstefanovi2/status/1541417205719597056
Allowing agency staff to replace striking workers undermines the right to strike and creates genuine safety risks for the public and workers. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/20/boris-johnson-plan-break-rail-strikes-agency-workers
BT Group made £1.3bn profit and paid over £700m to shareholders.
Royal Mail Group made over £750m profit and paid over £400m to shareholders.
We are not accepting them claiming a proper pay rise for staff if unaffordable
@DaveWardGS
Is it @LibDems policy to use the army to break strikes? Not very liberal or democratic! Our senior assistant general secretary Eddie Dempsey is right to say this would amount to “a war on workers.”
As ever Ministers brazenly saying things that are patently untrue safe in the knowledge that there will be those who will be deceived and who will believe and repeat it.
Straight out of the Trump playbook. https://twitter.com/peterstefanovi2/status/1540978468187422720
"This is for all workers.. this can't carry on. You cannot continue to talk about levelling up.. when all of the proposals these companies come forward with are actually levelling down the lives & living standards of working people. Its not acceptable" @DaveWardGS of the @CWUNews
This is just standard mantra and practice for Tory MPs.
They lie and mislead in the belief that if they tell these untruths often enough, their falsehoods will be accepted.
It has always been so.
That’s why they need to be called out every single time.
Hey @BrandonLewis some facts:
ASLEF represents 96% of train drivers
ASLEF is not on strike
RMT is on stike
Median salary of @RMTunion railworkers is £31k
The vast majority of those on strike this week earn salaries between £25-30k
Train drivers are worth every penny
#Ridge
Almost.
What you should have said is that Brits are fed up of the things you stuffed up and will continue to stuff up.
In fact they’re stuffing fed up of you and wish you’d stuff off.
Brits are "fed up hearing about things I stuffed up", Boris Johnson has claimed, as pressure on his leadership continues to mount https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/voters-fed-up-of-hearing-i-stuffed-up-claims-pm/
. @RMTunion General Secretary Mick Lynch responds to claims made by @grantshapps about railway working practices:
"Grant Shapps is talking nonsense and is completely ignorant of how the railways work which is a major shortcoming for a Transport Secretary. 🧵
NEW: Opinium rail strike poll
- 70% support inflation-level pay rise
- 62% believe govt should intervene
- 70% against cuts to rail staff
- 84% say invest rail profits in maintaining staff
- 59% say workers right to strike if talks fail
Proud to join the @RMTunion picket line today at Middlesbrough station.
Very buoyant and determined mood amongst rail workers and friends from other sectors, all demanding a better deal for all working people.
We’re at a pivotal moment in the war being waged on working people.
Labour must wholeheartedly back the @RMTunion & all those taking action to protect their livelihoods. Otherwise how can we expect their backing in return?
My piece for @tribunemagazine. https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/06/why-labour-should-back-the-rmt-strikes-rail
If you are really “listening to what people are saying” you’d hear them saying you are unfit for office and should resign.
"Clearly, we've got to listen to these results."
Prime Minister Boris Johnson admits the Conservatives have had some "tough by-election results", but the government will "listen to what people are saying".
#KayBurley http://trib.al/dwvcRFT
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Congratulations to @simonlightwood!
The new Labour MP for Wakefield. 🌹
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/06/dont-blame-workers-for-price-rises-blame-the-profiteers
Superb thought provoking article on a policy alternative to the regressive council tax regime.
Fairer Share’s plan sets out how we can reform our punitive council tax system – via @LabourList Please share RT 🏠♻️ https://labourlist.org/2022/06/fairer-shares-plan-sets-out-how-we-can-reform-our-punitive-council-tax-system/
Solidarity Apsana
A statement:
“Giving businesses freedom to access temporary workers.”
Isn’t that practice exactly what you and your lying, cheating Prime Minister condemned @POferries over, only three months ago?
You’re a disgraceful hypocrite, @KwasiKwarteng. https://twitter.com/KwasiKwarteng/status/1539847978235711488
Today, I will table legislation that will give employers the freedom to recruit skilled, temporary staff to plug vital roles during strike action.
This new law will help protect the British public from future disruption caused by militant trade unions👇🏿
http://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-acts-to-make-it-easier-for-businesses-to-use-temporary-staff-to-help-ease-disruptions-caused-by-strike-action
Labour's @AndyMcDonaldMP gets to the heart of the matter in @tribunemagazine arguing why Labour should back workers on strike for job security and fair pay.
✊
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/06/why-labour-should-back-the-rmt-strikes-rail
We love this @AndyMcDonaldMP - it's the solution for a modern public railway which works for passengers, staff and taxpayers. #railstrike https://twitter.com/AndyMcDonaldMP/status/1539604022625292290
This White Paper I published 2 years ago is still @UKLabour's blueprint for bringing our railways back into public ownership.
If this plan was implemented, the railway would work for passengers, staff & taxpayers, rather than profit.
https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/GB_Rail_Labour_Opposition_White_Paper.pdf https://twitter.com/We_OwnIt/status/1539561999629254656
This White Paper I published 2 years ago is still @UKLabour's blueprint for bringing our railways back into public ownership.
If this plan was implemented, the railway would work for passengers, staff & taxpayers, rather than profit.
https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/GB_Rail_Labour_Opposition_White_Paper.pdf https://twitter.com/We_OwnIt/status/1539561999629254656
🚆 Mick Lynch is absolutely right. Rail privatisation has been a disaster for everybody except the shareholders whose pockets it has lined.
It's time to bring the WHOLE railway into public hands!
Turning worker against worker is just part and parcel of this Tory governments playbook.
They want us kept busy fighting each other for scraps whilst they bleed the nation dry.
We see you for what you are.
#ToryRailStrikes https://twitter.com/grantshapps/status/1539898888676597761
Despite the efforts of militant union leaders, they cannot bring our country to a standstill.
That's why we're changing the law today, meaning any future strikes will cause less disruption and allow adaptable, flexible, fully skilled staff to continue working throughout. https://twitter.com/beisgovuk/status/1539850782111055872
Excellent article. Well worth reading.
The latest Tory plan to force agency staff to replace striking workers is a scab charter – and only one of the many ways Britain’s laws are rigged against workers.
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/06/trade-union-laws-rmt-strike-industrial-relations-legislation
“Giving businesses freedom to access temporary workers.”
Isn’t that practice exactly what you and your lying, cheating Prime Minister condemned @POferries over, only three months ago?
You’re a disgraceful hypocrite, @KwasiKwarteng.
Today, I will table legislation that will give employers the freedom to recruit skilled, temporary staff to plug vital roles during strike action.
This new law will help protect the British public from future disruption caused by militant trade unions👇🏿
http://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-acts-to-make-it-easier-for-businesses-to-use-temporary-staff-to-help-ease-disruptions-caused-by-strike-action
Welcome to Boris Johnsons “golden age”
BT, Openreach, EE and Royal Mail Group members.
The hypocrisy is exposed.
Your job is to now deliver the biggest possible yes votes in the respective ballots.
Our members weren't furloughed because they worked all through the pandemic and got other essential key workers to their jobs.
Our members are taxpayers so helped the country to make those furlough payments.
Doesn't sound greedy and self obsessed to me - quite the opposite https://twitter.com/adwallt/status/1539850396008648705
@RMTunion Huge furlough payments to people during lockdown&now they wake up, prepared to destroy the lives of others.People will die a result.
We're all in this together,apart from the greedy self obsessed bastards who would trample on your grave.if only they could be sacked.
Day two of #ToryRailStrikes and @EmmaHardyMP joins us at Hull this morning
This move is deliberately inflammatory.
It is also totally reckless in terms of passenger safety.
We well remember Railtrack - the private cowboy outfit that ran the rail infrastructure -and the carnage and deaths caused by their incompetence.
This is a Tory recipe for disaster⚠️
Not just undermining pay, rights and conditions, but risking public safety and ripping up ministers’ own words.
They’ve learned nothing from the P&O scandal, which led to safety failures and grounding of vessels.
https://news.sky.com/story/agency-workers-to-be-allowed-to-fill-in-for-striking-staff-as-government-tries-to-end-1970s-era-restrictions-12638732
Wales has a different approach when it comes to industrial relations.
Our social partnership model brings people around the table to discuss rather than argue. It finds solutions rather than creating division.
#RailStrikes
This White Paper I published 2 years ago is still @UKLabour's blueprint for bringing our railways back into public ownership.
If this plan was implemented, the railway would work for passengers, staff & taxpayers, rather than profit.
https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/GB_Rail_Labour_Opposition_White_Paper.pdf
🚆 Mick Lynch is absolutely right. Rail privatisation has been a disaster for everybody except the shareholders whose pockets it has lined.
It's time to bring the WHOLE railway into public hands!
Just a video of Mick Lynch bodying journalists and Tories
Workers need a pay rise.
The nonsense lines coming from Tories about a wage-price spiral expose their schemes to make working-class people pay for skyrocketing inflation.
Notice how they never talk about suppressing rates of profits or rent.
This is their class war in action. https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1539493591202013184
UK inflation hits 9.1% as prices continue to rise at their fastest rate for 40 years https://bbc.in/3xJiqeb
Workers need a pay rise.
The nonsense lines coming from Tories about a wage-price spiral expose their schemes to make working-class people pay for skyrocketing inflation.
Notice how they never talk about suppressing rates of profits or rent.
This is their class war in action.
UK inflation hits 9.1% as prices continue to rise at their fastest rate for 40 years https://bbc.in/3xJiqeb
📈Prices and bills through the roof. ➖Pay is flatlining.
🚨THIS IS A WAGES CRISIS.🚨
Working people need a PROPER PAYRISE 💷✔️ https://twitter.com/TUCeconomics/status/1539500113239977986
CPI inflation 9.1% and RPI 11.7%.
More than twice as fast as 4.2% (regular) pay growth.
We need a government that will stand up for working people. But instead we have ministers spoiling for a fight with workers who take action to defend their living standards.
Mick Lynch explains in well under a minute how workers aren’t causing inflation. Workers are getting pay cuts while billionaire wealth soars.
So refreshing to have someone talking sense on the tele.
Mick Lynch of the RMT says funding cuts made by a "government of billionaires" are to blame for rail strikes - accusing ministers of 'telling everyone else they've got to tighten their belts while they're raking it in'.
Live: https://trib.al/HNsrEac
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Plenty of money for the GLS CEO - none for you.