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Confederation of Trade Unions representing over 200,000 workers across Northern Ireland. Part of @IrishCongress

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NIC-ICTU @nic-ictu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Very important work from the Working in Ireland Survey Read these stark statistics and then ask yourself: Can NI *not* afford #GoodJobs Bill? Kudos: @Economy_NI @ucddublin.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @economy-ni.gov.uk & NERI www.economy-ni.gov.uk/news/new-res...
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
My dad became a doctor in the '50s. When I was a teen, 'pro-lifers' leafleted me. So I asked him about abortions. He told me that anyone who had ever treated a woman with a septic uterus after a backstreet abortion would never be in any doubt about the importance of safe, legal abortion.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026
The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.
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Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"The recklessness of the tech oligarchs pushing AI on our society has been matched only by their rampant dishonesty." - WGAE Executive Director Sam Wheeler on what Hollywood's unions think about existential AI warnings, and how policymakers should step in. Read: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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What Hollywood thinks about existential AI warnings
SAG-AFTRA and the WGA are focused on what’s actually happening now.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Right-wing press and ideologues will have you believe that the UK is the most heavily taxed place. They promise the impossible, European/Scandinavian levels of social security with American levels of taxation. This graph puts things in perspective.
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So much of the right these days have a massive patriotism problem. This guy: - is a tax exile (left long before this govt) - hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it - laments the manufacturing hit from a Brexit he supported www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I don’t understand why I or anyone should care what Ratcliffe has to say or why it is on the news
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General @keithellison.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Americans view unions favorably and recognize them as partners for building a just economy. Yet more than 50M nonunion workers would join a union but are unable to do so because our nation’s labor laws allow bosses to derail workers’ unionization efforts. www.epi.org/publication/...
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U.S. employers spend more than $1.5 billion annually on union avoidance
Key takeaways Many U.S. employers hire union avoidance consultants to keep their workers from organizing and bargaining for better pay and working conditions. We estimate that employers spend roughly ...
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NIC-ICTU @nic-ictu.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A genuinely consequential journalist. And thoroughly decent man. A life well lived. @irishtimes.com
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NIC-ICTU @nic-ictu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
www.rte.ie/news/ulster/...
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Stormont urged to agree budget or face industrial action
Trade unions have urged the Stormont Executive to agree on a fair budget or face an intensifying programme of industrial action.
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NIC-ICTU @nic-ictu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politic...
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Sinn Féin minister accuses small business group of ‘inaccuracies’ over Good Jobs Bill
FSB hits back at Caoimhe Archibald’s ‘ill-thought-out’ legislation
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NIC-ICTU @nic-ictu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Trade unions have urged Stormont to agree a fair budget or face an intensifying programme of industrial action
Trade unions have urged Stormont to agree a fair budget or face an intensifying programme of industrial action.
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NIC-ICTU @nic-ictu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
www.ictuni.org/news/fair-ni...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Shuler: It’s time to put the full weight of the labor movement behind candidates who will actually deliver… We’re going to turn out union voters and their families on a scale we never have before. We’re training 50,000 election protectors to staff every battleground district in the country.
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NIC-ICTU @nic-ictu.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Northern Ireland Teachers' unions vote in favour of strike action
In recent ballots three teaching unions returned large majorities in favour of industrial action.
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Economic Policy Institute @epi.org · 01/09/2026
So-called right-to-work (RTW) laws undermine workers’ ability to form unions. Unionization rates are clearly lower in RTW states—and since unions raise wages, that suppression lowers pay. The latest from @elisegould.bsky.social and Emma Cohn examines the economic impact of RTW 👇 1/7 #econsky
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Wages are lower in “right-to-work” states: These states have lower unionization rates and more anti-worker policies
Key takeaways: So-called right-to-work (RTW) laws undermine workers’ ability to form unions. Unionization rates are clearly lower in RTW states—and since unions raise wages, that suppression lowers pa...
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The moment anyone tells you you shouldn’t join a union, urgently look around for a union to join.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Getting my job back at the Washington Post would not have been possible if it wasn’t for me belonging to a union. @postguild.bsky.social and @wbng.org are the unions I belong to. I was able to challenge my wrongful termination because of the collective bargaining agreement / union contract!
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NIC-ICTU @nic-ictu.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
www.ictuni.org/news/new-luc...
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New LucidTalk poll reveals fears of ‘Workers’ Rights Sea Border’
A major new opinion poll shows continued public support for the Economy Minister’s Caoimhe Archibald’s plan to bring forward new legislation on workers’ rights and good jobs.
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NIC-ICTU @nic-ictu.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/new-pol...
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New poll suggests six in 10 voters fear Irish Sea border on workers’ rights being created as DUP blocks Good Jobs Bill
Six in 10 voters here are concerned about an Irish Sea border developing on workers’ rights as the DUP blocks Sinn Féin’s Good Jobs Bill.
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"Nigel Farage has spent years asking awkward questions about everyone else's money [Tonight] Channel 5 turns the telescope around. "Nigel Farage: Where Does the Money Come From?" will examine Reform UK leader's finances, including donors, companies, gifts, outside earnings" via Truth Against Hate
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A Scottish Tory peer has spoken out in defence of using the N-word. Nigel Biggar argued in a blogpost that it is 'stupidly unjust' for people to be punished for using the N-word if they did not mean it in a racist way. Read more: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
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David Ford @david-ford.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In all the talk of a possible Stormont collapse, this is a bit of a bombshell.
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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
As with so many part of the UK public realm, there's a graph and it shows "something happened in 2010 and we became a society with lesser public capacity to respond to unexpected challenges"
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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Excellent research that begs the following questions: 1. Why are OFCOM failing to act? 2. Why has the Online Safety Act, an abuser's charter, not been replaced? 3. What is the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Lisa Nandy doing to sanction hostile actors and states? [1/2]
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Most X accounts posting about Belfast and Southampton unrest were based outside UK
Exclusive: Analysis shows 55% of accounts were overseas – and seven of 12 most-read posts came from US
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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Due to involvement of paramilitaries in pogroms while the PSNI pretended otherwise, firefighters had to liaise with their leaders for permission to put out fires. “Firefighters had no doubt about paramilitary influence and sought permission from their leaders before tackling blazes, sources said.”
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The night Belfast burned: how the Northern Ireland race riots unfolded
A stabbing in June sparked another summer’s night of racial violence, stoked by loyalist groups. How did the unrest erupt – and why do many fear it will happen again?
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is a really inadequate Home Office statement in these circumstancds It empathises with this protest as expressing legitimate concerns, singles out violence against police, and simply fails to say "violence threatening asylum seekers, migrants & other minorities is shocking + wrong"
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 06/08/2026
On the 61st anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 becoming law, America’s unions remain united in the fight to restore, protect and expand the freedom to vote so we can all make our voices heard and build worker power at the ballot box.
President Lyndon B. Johnson shakes hands with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. after signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
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BFAWU @bfawu.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Year of Climate Action
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Text of the EU Commission decision refusing to register a European citizens' initiative calling for a racist immigration policy eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
Text of the decision, also available in the link
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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
My interview with director/writer John Sayles looking back on Matewan www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘A reminder of why we have unions’: Matewan writer and director on the film’s lessons for the labor movement
John Sayles’s 1987 film, which dramatizes a 1920 labor conflict, shows how class solidarity can overcome prejudice
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Aegis the Union @aegistheunion.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
🚀 We've launched our AI Starts With Workers campaign. AI and new technology are already changing financial services. Workers deserve a voice in how these changes happen-not just after decisions are made. #AegistheUnion #AI️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 02/07/2026
Someone has to say it. The amount of racism directed at World Cup players - including in the England squad - online is out of control.
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NIC-ICTU @nic-ictu.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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NIC-ICTU @nic-ictu.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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NIC-ICTU @nic-ictu.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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Burnham must see the Employment Rights Act through – and not be nervous about it
As Keir Starmer’s premiership ends, the debate over his legacy begins.
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NIC-ICTU @nic-ictu.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
No Irish Sea Border for Workers’ Rights!
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NIC-ICTU @nic-ictu.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
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Sodexo Strike at NIO and HMRC offices
Erskine House is a prominent office building in central Belfast branded as ‘HM Government’ which houses four floors of HMRC tax officials and above them, the Northern Ireland Office where the Secretar...
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NIC-ICTU @nic-ictu.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"It tells voters something about the access which really matters - not for workers to access support from a trade union, but for business lobbyists' access to the corridors of power" www.ictuni.org/news/busines...
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Business lobby exercises its unreasonable and unaccountable veto over popular Good Jobs Bill.
Following the NI Executive meeting on Thursday 11 June which discussed yet again the Good Jobs Bill and yet aga
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Prospect Union @prospectunion.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Read our full statement.
Mike Clancy, General Secretary of Prospect, said:

“The attempted murder in Belfast was horrific and we want to express solidarity with the victim and his family.

“But the indiscriminate targeting of migrant families we have seen in response is totally unacceptable and shames our country. We must all stand in solidarity with those affected by this racist violence.

“We must also be clear about what is driving this behaviour. Elon Musk continues to use his X platform to promote far-right content and interfere in the politics of the UK. It is increasingly clear that X is not a social media app but a far right organising tool with Musk himself actively supporting and promoting people who are calling for violence and far right policies.

“Government use of X legitimises it as a platform, and also results in civil service communications officers having to wade through racist content while doing their jobs. We need to stand up to racism and the far right – that has to start with creating spaces for dialogue that aren’t poisoned by racism. We call on the Government to abandon its use of X and use the expertise of specialist civil servants to develop alternative approaches to communications.”
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Prospect Union @prospectunion.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Prospect is calling on the Government to leave X following ongoing political interference and the promotion of far-right content on the platform. Civil servants and communications workers should not have to read racist content while trying to do their jobs and communicate with the public.
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The PDA @the-pda.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Pharmacists, their patients, and their colleagues must be able to go about their lives in peace. The PDA Union is a proud member of the ICTU.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The hospitality industry wants their VAT cut to 10%. It will cost £12bn Who benefits? ❌ The smallest most vulnerable businesses? Nope. 45% get nothing. ❌ Consumers? Nope - prices won't fall. ✅ Nearly half the cash goes straight to large chains. McDonald's gets £400m. 🧵:
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NIC-ICTU @nic-ictu.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
ICTU stands with communities afflicted by fear and violence as we have done so many times in the past and will continue to do so. www.ictuni.org/news/nic-ict...
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NIC-ICTU Trade Unions call for calm
Today the trade union movement stands with the victim of a horrendous knife attack in north Belfast, and his neighbours who came out and defended him. We stand with the emergency services who addresse...
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NIC-ICTU @nic-ictu.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
It’s time for the #GoodJobsBill Time for @niassembly.bsky.social to debate and legislate Time to stop lobbyists vetoing popular legislation Time for Stormont to deliver for working people @irishcongress
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NIC-ICTU @nic-ictu.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"Trade Union rights are not some kind of optional add on that can be removed from this bill, they are fundamental to it. Without TU rights, 000's of workers across NI will be locked out from accessing many of the rights that deputy First Minister says she supports" www.ictuni.org/news/unions-...
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Unions 'deep alarm and disappointment' at the comments made by Gavin Robinson MP and Deputy First Minister Emma Little Pengelly regarding the Good Jobs Employment Rights Bill
The Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions notes with deep alarm and disappointment, the comments made by Gavin Robinson MP and Deputy First Minister Emma Little Pengelly MLA...
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ITUC @ituc.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
🤝 Right to #CollectiveBargaining In #SriLanka, more than 1,400 NEXT factory workers were dismissed via WhatsApp after a factory closure breached a collective bargaining agreement. 💸 Workers are not disposable ⚖️ Respect collective agreements and workers’ rights 👉 buff.ly/N1PrbRU #RightsIndex26
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