What has Kate Osborne been up to today?
Kate Osborne is MP for Jarrow and a member of the Labour party.
Kate Osborne has 15803 followers on Twitter.
Today in Parliament there is a debate and celebration of 50 years of pride.
Unfortunately I cannot now speak in the debate as I have tested positive for Covid but here is a snippet of what I was going to say!
Thanks to @pinknews for the write up of yesterday's #NotSafeToBeMe protest.
Government are failing our LGBTQ+ community - there is just no justification for refusing to protect trans people from abhorrent conversion practices.
#BanConversionTherapy
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/06/29/lgbtq-protest-london-not-safe-to-be-me
https://www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/news/2022/june/royal-mail-managers-vote-to-strike-over-threats-to-542-jobs-pay-and-working-conditions/ For yrs @royalmail have taken advantage of their @unitetheunion managers who keep the service going with additional hrs for no extra pay whilst RM attack t&c’s & make redundancies whilst achieving record profits for their shareholders. @unitenwservices
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.@DominicRaab once said food bank users are not in poverty but have a cash flow problem.
He also wanted to abolish the minimum wage for workers aged under 21 & scrap employment rights for agency workers.
This out of touch Tory gvmt is not on the side of working people. #PMQs
This Govt is failing trans & non-binary people.
Today I joined @TransActivismUK in Parliament Square for the #NotSafeToBeMe protest - I stand firmly with our trans & non-binary siblings in calling for a trans-inclusive ban on conversion therapy.
@jadethirlwall @Mermaids_Gender
If the minister is having to shout loudly about how legal a bill for a new law is - he has already lost the argument.
This bill is legal, it is necessary and it is right for the people and businesses of Northern Ireland ➡️ https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1082474/northern-ireland-protocol-the-uks-solution.pdf
The best way to end the first day of ballots being open is definitely getting an endorsement from the excellent @KateOsborneMP!
Thank you!
2.5m+ people waiting 18+ weeks for NHS treatment.
35k+ people waiting 10+ weeks for Passports.
73k+ people waiting 6+ months for a decision on their asylum claim.
267,000 cancer patients waiting 6+ weeks for a test or a scan.
Welcome to Backlog Britain.
South Shields Town Hall is flying the Progress Pride Flag to mark Pride Day today (28 June).🏳️🌈
South Tyneside Council has raised the new more inclusive version of the rainbow flag to show support for LGBTQ+ communities.
Read more at: https://www.southtyneside.gov.uk/article/76119/Raising-the-Flag-for-Pride-with-Pride
📢 Have your say 📢
Q&A sessions are taking place throughout July where residents will be able to ask questions about The Local Plan.
Consultation is open until 31st July and residents are encouraged to share their views.
Click the link in the below post for more details.👇
South Tyneside Local Plan
As well as Q&A sessions The Local Plan will be discussed at CAF meetings across South Tyneside
To view the draft plan, have your say and find out more visit
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We've just released £10 tickets for our BIG Comedy Night on 12th July!
£10 tickets for RMT/CWU/GMB/Unite/DiEM25 members, NHS workers and low earners...
Book now:
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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/
The #BarristerStrike is a culmination of years of funding cuts - during a single year of the pandemic barristers earnings from legal aid collapsed by 23% with no help from the govt to mitigate massive loss of income.
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/barrister-strike-court-case-delay-24334321?fbclid=IwAR2lOz9AM9-DwvmLiaxDFtUEE5fULD8uH67kJcTHJ2Zood4QWbr9fq78FAs
Nice write up @shieldsgazette #JarrowRebel
An honour to pay tribute to 7 Men of Jarrow, banished to Australia in 1832 after objecting to poor working conditions at their colliery - an important reminder why trade unions were formed in the first place✊
https://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/politics/rebel-town-festival-returns-to-jarrow-as-former-labour-party-leader-jeremy-corbyn-and-mp-kate-osborne-address-crowds-3745823
My column in this week's shields gazette.
Hope you're all having a good Sunday!
https://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/opinion/columnists/kate-osborne-the-government-is-playing-politics-with-the-rail-workers-dispute-3741805
A busy day today on the picket line at Newcastle supporting the @RMTunion
and speaking at Jarrow Rebel festival
Jarrow has a long proud history of fighting for better living standards and standing up for workers rights and I am proud to continue in that tradition.
#solidarity✊
It was a pleasure to speak and attend Jarrow Rebel Town Festival today alongside my great friend, @jeremycorbyn. It was lovely to see so many people attending this event. Thank you to the organisers for all their hard work putting together an excellent day.
It is clear that Government Ministers no longer understand the difference between the truth and the lies they tell. Just checked Hansard: Rachel Maclean was there and actually voted to filibuster the Bill out of Time. https://twitter.com/Marshajane/status/1540095259274887168
Government's @redditchrachel the under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport just told #BBCQuestionTime that the Tories legislated to prevent #FireandRehire.
That is a lie - they prevented @BarryGardiner Bill to stop Fireandrehire and disgracefully talked it out!
This is a huge step backwards for abortion rights that will disproportionately impact women with the least resources.
Solidarity to all those impacted by this awful verdict.
#abortionrights
https://news.sky.com/story/right-to-abortion-overturned-by-us-supreme-court-after-nearly-50-years-in-roe-v-wade-ruling-12628801
It is great to see community groups benefitting from £411,625 of National Lottery funding in the Jarrow constituency, including Community Voice who plan to establish a network of paid ‘Peer Enablers’ & volunteers to assist people with physical sensory and learning disabilities.
I’m looking forward to the Jarrow Rebel Town festival tomorrow with @jeremycorbyn & others.
It’s a time to mark Jarrow’s role in the history of Britain’s industrial relations since the 1830s & to commemorate the ‘Seven Men of Jarrow’.
See you there! 👊
https://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/politics/rebel-festival-brings-jeremy-corbyn-and-controversial-rmt-union-boss-to-jarrow-as-uk-hit-by-rail-strikes-3740402
Congratulations to @simonlightwood!
The new Labour MP for Wakefield. 🌹
There’s nothing militant about standing up for hard working people Grant
British law does not do enough to protect strikers from being replaced - your attempts to weaken workers rights even further will be fought off
Stop spouting unworkable soundbites and resolve this dispute
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
This Government is planning to boost City bosses’ pay whilst demanding “wage restraint” for everyone else.
Y’day I asked Boris Johnson when he is going to stop giving meaningless sound bites & instead support working people many of whom are struggling.👇
https://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/opinion/columnists/kate-osborne-the-government-is-playing-politics-with-the-rail-workers-dispute-3741805
At #PMQs I asked @BorisJohnson when he will take action to support workers - no answer.
Network Rail's Andrew Haines gets 20x pay of a train guard.
Royal Mail's Simon Thompson on 23x more than average postie.
It's time we fought back, solidarity to all those taking action.
TODAY in Wakefield #VoteLabour @simonlightwood
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A message to you Rishi:
It's not the workers pay you need to force down, it's the greedy, grasping fat-cats!
#ToryRailStrikes
Ministers planning to boost City bosses pay whilst workers struggle to cope with the worst cost of living crisis in history.
@BorisJohnson had no answer to my Q instead attacking me for standing up for workers.
Tories are on side of bankers not people who are suffering. #PMQs
I’ve just been on @mrjamesob show on @LBC talking about this week’s #RailStrikes with @theousherwood.
The @RMTunion have my full support and I’m proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with workers on the picket line.
Listen here. 🔈👇
On the picket line at Bromley.
I'm a trade unionist, I will always stand on the side of the workers.
Solidarity @rmtunion
#TubeStrike
#railstrike
Solidarity with those on the picket lines.
This is a crisis entirely of the Government’s making.
The workers don’t want strikes. The unions don’t want strikes. The public don’t want strikes.
They demand better.
I’ve just been on @mrjamesob show on @LBC talking about this week’s #RailStrikes with @theousherwood.
The @RMTunion have my full support and I’m proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with workers on the picket line.
Listen here. 🔈👇
Bromley picket this morning - workers have had real terms pay cuts for decades and are now facing a cost of living crisis, food poverty and energy bill rises - all political choices of this Government.
Grant Shapps should get round the table with the @RMTunion.
#Solidarity
On the picket line at Bromley.
I'm a trade unionist, I will always stand on the side of the workers.
Solidarity @rmtunion
#TubeStrike
#railstrike
The @UKLabour was formed by the trade union movement to give working people a political voice
Workers face a cost of living crisis. Rail workers @rmtunion are fighting cuts to pay, job, pensions & conditions
Come what may, I will be on a picket line supporting workers tomorrow https://twitter.com/siennamarla/status/1538939029315624961
EXCLUSIVE: Labour front benchers have been told by the party leadership that they are banned from picket lines this week amid rail strikes: https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/labour-front-benchers-banned-from-picket-lines-amid-rail-strikes
The @UKLabour was formed by the trade union movement to give working people a political voice
Workers face a cost of living crisis. Rail workers @rmtunion are fighting cuts to pay, job, pensions & conditions
Come what may, I will be on a picket line supporting workers tomorrow
EXCLUSIVE: Labour front benchers have been told by the party leadership that they are banned from picket lines this week amid rail strikes: https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/labour-front-benchers-banned-from-picket-lines-amid-rail-strikes
I’ve just met frontline NHS workers after they handed in the @KeepNHSpublic petition calling on Boris Johnson not to scrap free covid testing.
It has over 400,000 signatures. ✊👇
"Bring back free covid testing"
Thank you @KateOsborneMP for supporting our petition urging the government to bring back free testing.
#FreeTestingNow
This week I'm proud to support #CervicalScreeningAwarenessWeek.
Cervical screening (smear tests) can save lives, but 1 in 3 do not attend when invited.
If you have any questions or concerns, follow @JoTrust for information, tips, and support.
Gustavo Petro has won Colombia's presidential election.
Francia Márquez is the country's new vice-president.
Their @PactoCol coalition was backed by trade unions, social movements and the pro-peace movement.
A historic result for the Colombian people!
🇨🇴 https://twitter.com/petrogustavo/status/1538645778540937217
Hoy es dia de fiesta para el pueblo. Que festeje la primera victoria popular. Que tantos sufrimientos se amortiguen en la alegria que hoy inunda el corazon de la Patria.
Esta victoria para Dios y para el Pueblo y su historia. Hoy es el dia de las calles y las plazas.
Felicidades y solidaridad @petrogustavo! 🇨🇴
Incredible news from Colombia with the election of a socialist president, who has shown the power of community organising to build a popular policy platform to heal the divisions of the past and bring about social justice.
Felicidades y solidaridad @petrogustavo! 🇨🇴
Britain is facing the biggest rail strike in a generation but @GrantShapps hasn’t spent a single second in talks to avert it since March.
Time is running out. The Tories must get round the table and sort this out.
On the streets of London today with @The_TUC, TU’s and 1000’s of workers who #DemandBetter and need an end to the #CostofLivingCrisis.
Join a union! ✊
I am so pleased to have a wonderful endorsement for the @YourMmtm slate from a great comrade, one who has been part of @jeremycorbyn 's team and who worked relentlessly to elect a socialist Labour government. Thank you @Marshajane ✊🏼🚩
Great to see you @SteveT_Unite 🌹✊🏼
Fantastic to share the @The_TUC #DemandBetter demo with so many great @UKLabour MP’s … our movement coming together to demand an end to the #CostOfLivingCrisis here with our very own @KateOsborneMP -#Solidarity
Great to catch up with Louisa Bull my National Officer from my days in Royal Mail. 🌹✊
Today marks 38 years since the Battle of Orgreave. 📺👇
#OrgreaveJustice @orgreavejustice