@GMBLondonRegion Head of Communications, Politics and Campaigns. @GMBPoliticsLDN
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Peter Roberts retweeted
“There are political repressions taking place. Now they’ve reached us.” Journalist and Nobel laureate Dmitry Muratov tells me how the Russian authorities have “strangled” Russia’s most prominent independent newspaper. Novaya Gazeta is closing down. #ReadingRussia
Peter Roberts retweeted
MPs’ staff keep our democracy running. They deal with constituents in crisis, work round the clock and have no HR that acts for them.
Australia, New Zealand and the EU employ parliamentary staff centrally. Westminster should too.
Back One Parliament, One Employer 👇
650 offices. 650 employers. One broken system.
Staff leaving Parliament within their first year is up 59% on 2023-24.
Our President @lisagillmore sets out in @politicshome why Parliament needs a single employer 👇
politicshome.com/members/art…
Peter Roberts retweeted
@AndreaEganGS @unisontheunion - you must be very proud octopus.energy/power-to-the-…
How very sad this is for the movement. It is not over yet.
Peter Roberts retweeted
Octopus picked a union. Its workers picked GMB.
Recognition isn't something a boss hands to whichever union it prefers.
It's won by the people doing the work. Our members.
We're not going anywhere. 🐙✊
#MembersFirst
@AndreaEganGS @unisontheunion - you must be very proud octopus.energy/power-to-the-…
How very sad this is for the movement. It is not over yet.
Peter Roberts retweeted
Thank you to the activists who joined us at the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street today. ¡No pasarán! 🟠⚫️
Peter Roberts retweeted
90 years ago today, Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists tried to march through the East End of London. Their goal was to intimidate the local Jewish population and promote their racist and fascist ideology. Instead hundreds of local people organised by trade unionists and community groups put up barricades and turned out in large numbers to stop the march. This became known as the “Battle of Cable Street”. A few years later, the same community rallied around their German neighbours facing reprisals during the second world war and in the 1970s and 1980s they helped defend the local Bangladeshi communities against attacks from the National Front. Today, local communities in the east end organise support for refugees fleeing persecution from all over the world, London will never stand for hate, racism, antisemitism and division. No Pasaran.
Peter Roberts retweeted
🟠⚫ GMB members out in force for Sagal Abdi-Wali in Holborn and St Pancras today for the TULO Campaign Day.
Sagal grew up in Camden. Now members are hitting the doors to send her to Parliament.
Five days to go. Vote Labour on Thursday 8 October 🌹
Peter Roberts retweeted
A packed room of Black Labour activists at @ObsidianLabour’ s event, organising and building power together.
Proud to support. Solidarity from GMB Union ✊🏾
Peter Roberts retweeted
The best bit of Labour conference is when delegates discuss union business. It's nice to sit in & listen. Lifetimes spent pushing for better pay and conditions, the part of the movement that gets totally overlooked, but you can tell it's transformative for the people involved.
Peter Roberts retweeted
I hosted a heritage celebration with local organisations.
Thank you to @dannyadilypour and @GMBLondonRegion the union is an important part of Newham’s story, supporting people for over a century.
And archives and a quiz got everyone excited for @newhamhcentre opening 2027!
Peter Roberts retweeted
Great to represent @GMB_union at a @NewhamLondon Heritage event in Parliament today.
We were proud to support the event as Newham is where our union was founded in 1889 by Will Thorne, who went on to serve Newham as a @UKLabour MP from 1906-1945.
Thanks @JamesAsser for hosting!
Peter Roberts retweeted
658 employers. £4m in wages stolen from workers who earned every penny of it.
B&Q. Five Guys. Care homes. Nurseries. NHS trusts.
Every one of them called it a “technical” error.
None of them made the error in the workers’ favour.
Join a union. Get what you’re owed.
gmb.org.uk/join-gmb
B&Q and Five Guys among firms that paid staff below minimum wage bbc.in/4dgKXxc
🧵 1/10 - In defence of @TulipSiddiq it isn’t a zero sum game, you can have both a successful career and be known to a CLP for some level of activism. Campaigning, talking to residents and understanding elections is a fundamental part of being an MP. It’s naive to think doing
barrier to delivering a few leaflets, going to the odd meeting or helping out occasionally simply isn’t true for most people. I once was on a campaign where a person had a heart attack delivering leaflets, his partner after seeing him in hospital, demanded to finish his (9/10)