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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I’m so glad that @tomvickers.bsky.social was around to pull together the stories and lesson from the campaign to build a union in Amazon Coventry It’s a brilliant read with additional essays by some of those involved (even me!) It’s available now but don’t buy it from Amazon 😉

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

The British pottery industry is in crisis Add your name to the campaign calling for urgent action now - www.potterspledge.uk

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The government has signed a Dying to Work agreement with 6 unions to bring much needed protection for workers with a terminal illness across the civil service There is power in a union ✊

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Great to join the ´Trade Unions and University Research: Collaborating to make work better’ Conference at Nottingham Trent University today Lots of interesting discussions around how trade unionists and academic researchers can work together to improve working conditions

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

How do we defeat Reform and the far right? We come together, build collective strength and fight back ✊ Huge thanks to everyone who joined the SUTR event in Birmingham today

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

It’s nearly time for the Women Chainmakers Festival 2025! Here’s what’s on and when

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Yesterday’s Derby’s Silk Mill Festival was brilliant! It’s not everyday you get to do a speech from on top of a fire engine

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Just one day to go! Really looking forward to the Derby Silk Mill Festival ✊

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Really looking forward to reading Logging Off by @adelewalton.bsky.social It takes a long hard look at the digital world and big tech, including a bit on Amazon warehouses I even get a mention!

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

This evening, I got to join Garfield Hylton, brilliant union leader at Amazon Coventry, and some fab @teamsters.bsky.social colleagues We spoke at the “How can academics support workers’ organising at Amazon?” event Huge thanks to the team at Sheffield University’s Centre for Decent Work

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Years of underfunding in both councils and schools, the dislocation caused by Academisation, low pay and increased workloads have all contributed to create an SEND crisis Thanks to @alexballingermp.bsky.social for creating a space to talk about what we need to rebuild SEND provision

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

The UK has fallen to 22 in ILGA-Europe’s annual rankings of nations A decade ago the UK topped the list This is why pride is a protest. 🏳️‍🌈✊ rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org?utm_source=S...

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Great to bring representatives from 5 unions to Parliament to talk with Midlands Labour MPs I’m looking forward to following up on our discussions

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Huge thanks again to the amazing Polly Smythe for delivering this year’s Mary Macarthur lecture for TUC Midlands novaramedia.com/contributor/...

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Louis Mosley, the UK head of Pallantir, went unchallenged on Laura Keunssberg’s BBC programme when he said the company was not political and their founder was a member of the Democrats The reality around the company’s conservative founder is very different

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

It was great to join the protest at the Lifford Depot in Bham This clearly shows the level of support for @unitetheunion.bsky.social bin workers ✊

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Sometimes it’s the simplest messages that mean the most

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Coventry TUC colleagues do an amazing amount of work supporting their community and standing up for the labour movement So, it was a huge privilege to join them and speak at the May Day rally ✊

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

In a day of bleak politics, it was wonderful to spend the evening listening to the amazing Polly Smythe deliver the annual TUC Midlands Mary Macarthur Lecture Check out her work as @novaramedia.com’s labour movement correspondent novaramedia.com/contributor/...

Polly stands at a lectern speaking. A TUC Midlands banner is in the background

Polly and Stuart stand in front of a banner dedicated the the women chainmakers and their battle for decent pay

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

It was a pleasure to join West Midlands HongKonger Support CIC, UK Welcome Refugees and researchers from the University of Bham today The talk ranged from the latest survey of workers who had migrated to the UK from Hong Kong, to how UK unions can support the community to organise ✊

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Huge thanks to everyone who attended the @tuc.org.uk International Workers' Memorial Day event at the National Memorial Arboretum These events not only highlight the preventable nature of workplace deaths, but also promote how union organising delivers real improvements in workplace safety

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Lots of things planned for this week! I’m looking forward to this one ✊

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Each year, TUC Midlands holds the Mary Macarthur Lecture It’s an opportunity for leading women to set out how we tackle the challenges facing women today This year’s speaker is the fabulous Polly Smythe Reserve your place here 👇 forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Great to join @fbunational.bsky.social and @unison.org.uk colleagues today as Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service signed up to give workers much needed protection through the #DyingToWork charter Find out more at www.dyingtowork.co.uk

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

For years, Band 2 staff at Nottingham University Hospitals have been underpaid It’s time for the hospitals bosses to do the right thing and pay their staff the money they’re owed Sending solidarity from @tuc.org.uk to the @unison.org.uk members striking today ✊

Striking NHS workers hold Unison placards at a picket line

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

This little band of Trump sock puppet shills has voted against stopping fire and rehire They’ve voted against day one employment rights and sick pay They’ve voted against a fairer playing field for unions Phoney photo opps won’t change this

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

How do we stop Reform? We organise! Great to join union activists at tonight’s SUTR event in Nottingham

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Morrisons have signed up to the @tuc.org.uk Dying to Work Charter! This commits much needed additional employment protection for terminally ill workers at the company Huge privilege to join @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social and @usdawunion.bsky.social colleagues at the signing www.dyingtowork.co.uk

Paul Novak (TUC) and Paddy Lillis (USDAW) hold a signed Dying to Work Charter. They are standing with Morrisons workers

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Huge thanks to @tuccymru.bsky.social for asking me to speak on a panel about organising in new spaces Brilliant to see lots of activists from lots of different unions coming together ✊

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Going out with a bang! My last week at GMB is also Heart Unions week, so the perfect time to catch up with workers at the Amazon site in Birmingham ✊

Members of GMB Union wave “Amazon Workers Branch” flags in front of an Amazon warehouse

Stuart stands in front of the GMB Union Midlands Region office

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

How do we make work better? We stand together ✊

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

This is the kind of Xmas gift I like 😊 You’re never alone when you’re part of a union ✊

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

You can watch the whole committee, including the brilliant submission by Amanda Gearing Just click on the link- parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Incredibly proud to see the experiences of Amazon workers shape improvements to employment legislation Huge thanks to @antoniabance.bsky.social, @liambyrnemp.bsky.social, @mattwestern.bsky.social and @sarahedwardsmp.bsky.social for today’s ‘Make Work Pay’ Business Select Committee

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

It’s been a long time coming, but an end to the fight for equal pay in Birmingham City Council is one step closer Incredibly proud of the women workers who stood together and made this happen ✊ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Would it really be Xmas if there wasn’t a Bella Ciao from the festive tractors?

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Huge thanks to the amazing folk at @equityuk.bsky.social for the invite to talk to some of their brilliant activist It also meant that I got to meet up with the fabulous Polly Smythe from @novaramedia.com Really looking forward to more collaboration in the future ✊

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

That moment when the campaign you’ve been involved in becomes history… If you’re in and around Manchester, please check out the People’s History Museum’s newest exhibit from the Amazon workers’ campaign ✊

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Sunrise on the picket line! Huge well done to the staff at George Dixon Primary School in B’ham for standing together ✊ No Academisation without equal pay 📣

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Snow won’t stop a picket line ✊ It’s the second day of strike action at the Farmfoods depot in Solihull Incredibly proud to see these workers coming together to fight for decent pay and a unionised workplace

Group of union members outside a warehouse holding GMB Union flags, a sign saying ‘official picket’ and a banner saying ´Farmfoods workers demand a union voice.’

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Sometimes you need to make time for tea and Tribune

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

If you’ve not read our case story of workers’ fight for a unionised Amazon and the changes we need to see in the statutory recognition process, please check it out 👇✊ www.gmb.org.uk/assets/media...

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Worried you might have a flag that is proscribed or offensive? Let the Met Police know and they’ll have one of their crack flag experts give it a comprehensive once over…

Tweet from the MET Police with a picture of a Persian Flag. The tweet talks about flags and how they have experts to check them

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

You know your dispute is a global one when the @teamsters.bsky.social show up to lend a hand

Group of amazing people in orange hi-viz vests and waving GMB Union flags stand in front of an Amazon sign

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Sunday mushroom hunt and met this fungi

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Stuart Richards @stuart-richards.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Councillors at Birmingham City Council have voted yes to the GMB and joint union proposal on job evaluation This is a huge step forward in fairness and transparency and takes council workers closer to tackling discrimination in pay Unions aren’t the problem We are the solution

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