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Joined August 2010
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Staying in Kings Cross again. For the Help the Aged posse.. Chads gone, Swintons gone, pub with no name now has a name. @KateJopling – at Camden Town, London
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What a pity @UN could not come up with a more positive image of Ageing
Ouch! One cane is great. Two canes + two faces turned to the ground is terrible. Surely @UN can do better.
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Biggest weakness of govt ‘back to work’ briefing today is it being based on complete misdiagnosis of problem. There are low numbers of short term unemployed and high % find work. Meanwhile we’ve seen huge rise in those dropping out of labour market, most of whom get no support.
Just to be clear, virtually no-one on Universal Credit has been claiming for three months or less. I've shown below how many. The idea that getting new claimants to search harder will make any difference at all - let alone get millions into work - is complete nonsense. 1/
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Tory gives £3m to Tory party, gets peerage, offers to set up (not very) ‘blind trust’ for Downing Street, asks PM for help with pet project, PM (who likes a pet project) asks for £112k for refurbishment of ‘tip’ and promises he’s ‘on the case’. It’s cash for access.
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Great programme on @BBCRadio4 right now with Rethink population change lots of stuff on jobs and ageing, lifelong learning, the 100 year life, all our tunes are being played!
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My daughter Hannah new art teacher and mentor Sarah Schmidt, have been getting going producing Christmas cards. Lots of gold and coloured paint. I hope I receive one! m.facebook.com/media/set/?se…
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Is this Cy Twombly? No it’s an example of the art of my daughter Hannah James
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See @POTUS has a couple of years on @crystal_balls . Hope he keeps well to inspire generations of #olderworkers and runners. Keep going if you can!
Happy birthday to my friend and my brother, @POTUS! Thanks for giving all of us the gift of better infrastructure. Grateful for all you’re doing to build this country back better.
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The Opening our #HealthAndSafety seminar by @jnewsham who gave an energetic and engaging raising of the failures of Gov't and many employers to properly respond to the threat Covid-19 has had on workers - esp. those with higher risks to exposure. @UniofGreenwich #CREW_Greenwich
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Great to speak alongside brilliant health and safety reps & @ShellyAsquith @jnewsham @CREW_Greenwich seminar today and hear from @JoanneCrawford3 on NZ experience
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'You will benefit from better care from the NHS thanks to the reallocation of funds from the Eu budget'...that EU Referendum was criminally mendacious wasn't it?
Replying to @Haggis_UK
☝️☝️☝️Very clear...
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What sorts of policies are employers adopting re older workers in the pandemic? Will vaccine hesitancy accelerate passage towards the much vaunted “Plan B”? When will the importance of workplace policies be finally recognized? Join @crystal_balls and friends for this discussion
Delighted to announce a dissemination event for our research @UniofGreenwich on the work of trade union health and safety reps during the #Covid_19 #pandemic eventbrite.co.uk/e/on-the-fr…
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Delighted to announce a dissemination event for our research @UniofGreenwich on the work of trade union health and safety reps during the #Covid_19 #pandemic eventbrite.co.uk/e/on-the-fr…
This of course is subject to the proviso that your pension provider doesn’t slice £17,500 of your pension fund without cause, Shilly shally around, not replying to your mails, failing to understand their own mistakes. @ScottishWidows know all about these things don’t they?
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Report on work that Mariska van der Horst and I have been doing. @sspssr @SheilaCallaham @ESA_Ageing @MariskavdHorst @TAEN_Uk @Nicky_LeFeuvre @CamCavendish
🎉 REPORT LAUNCH 🎉 How do ageism and ableism overlap in the workplace? In our latest report, we explore perceptions of ageism and ableism among older workers and the impact these have on future plans for work. Read the full report below 👇 ilcuk.org.uk/enabling-age-at…
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Hi @howaboutjam can you RT our event on the work of TU H and S reps please. Vital @Unite debates the contributions of H and S Reps in pandemic.
Absolutely it’s what our membership Unitetheunion wants open and transparency who’s the next General Secretary
See this free webinar @UniofGreenwich , great speaker line up with @ProfMattFlynn Prof Sian Moore, @minjiecai @JoanneCrawford3 @ShellyAsquith @RoryONeill_ @crystal_balls and many informed participants
Registrations are coming in thick and fast for our @UniofGreenwich CREW event on Friday 14th June on health and safety reps work through #COVID19 . Great speakers line up. Register while you can. eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-t…
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Can’t help thinking ⁦@The_TUC⁩ ‘s comments on care workers and vaccinations is missing something. Currently seeking carers for my disabled daughter to return to independent living and found a bafflingly high percentage rejecting vaccination, even though free etc. Why?
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Mmm. A victim of the Twitter character limits I guess. We all have mental health of course & the data shows that productivity was higher among those reporting better mental health (not unexpectedly) though the size of the gap is noteworthy, I’d suggest?
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Pleased to have been part of the team from CREW ⁦@UniofGreenwich⁩ working on this report for ⁦@The_TUC⁩ on work of union #H&SReps during the #Covid-19 Pandemic. tuc.org.uk/research-analysis…
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