Cllr for Cardonald ward, @GlasgowCC , Recovering postie @CWUnews, @cwu_scotland, @PTTPGlasgow, I write a bit @m_star_online

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Matt Kerr retweeted
This is an important and brave message from workers at Meta, where the CWU have members. If the allegations are true that big tech firms have been suppressing the voice of @LulaOficial and ignoring extreme right-wing disinformation, everyone who believes in fair play should be seriously concerned. American tech billionaires must not be allowed to interfere in democratic elections - the future of Brazil must be decided by the Brazilian people alone.
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The passion many have for returning to the EU means again embracing a system that prioritises the interests of private capital at the heart of its decision making. Rejoining the EU is not the solution to our problems. Governments taking ownership of vital industry & services is.
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Cokehead Hitler wannabe encouraging Nazi thugs to attack people for discussing political ideas he disagrees with. The far right have made it clear their target isn’t just immigrants. They’re prepared to use violence to silence anyone who opposes them.
More footage of Scottish locals disrupting an Antifa meeting where they're plotting Paris style riots.
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Our sisters in @FBUScotland passed an emergency motion to support our Reclaim the Night demo outside Scottish Parliament on Monday ✊🏽💜🚒
✊ Day 2 - STUC Women’s Conference 2026 – FBU Emergency Motion FBU Scotland’s Seona Hart moved an emergency motion calling for support for the Reclaim the Night demonstration and demanding sustainable, multi-year funding for women’s services across Scotland. Seona highlighted the uncertainty facing vital services, including Murray’s Initiative, which faces the loss of funding in March 2027. With violence against women and girls declared a national emergency, Seona challenged the lack of secure funding for the specialist services women depend upon. 🗣️ “Their recovery doesn’t operate on a funding cycle. Their safety doesn’t come with a financial year-end. And neither should the support they depend upon.” Seona called for multi-year, ring-fenced funding to protect these services, the women who rely on them and the workers delivering vital support. ✊ “You cannot declare an emergency and then fund the response as though it is optional.” 📢 RECLAIM THE NIGHT DEMONSTRATION 📅 Monday 26 October 🕔 5pm 📍 Outside the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh A national emergency demands a national response! #STUCWomensConference #FBUWomen #ReclaimTheNight #EndVAWG #FundWomensServices @fbunational @FBUScotNorth @FbuEast @WestScotlandFBU @FBU_Scotland_EC @AngusSproul @JMcKScotRegSec @fire_scot @reclaimthenight @SistersACG
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I was there last night when 20 masked fascists tried to attack a socialist meeting in Glasgow. These aren’t concerned citizens. They’re thugs trying to silence political opposition through violence and intimidation. Unity on the left is essential to defeat the far right.
Read our statement on events last night in the graphics below. We say don't be intimidated, stand united and in solidarity with one another. Build @AntiRacismDay @SUTRScotland All out to mobilise for the @ScottishTUC St Andrew's Day anti-racist and anti-fascist march on 28 Nov.
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This post would make sense IF the SNP Scottish Government hadn’t sold off £3 billion worth of assets in a Green Investment Portfolio to private companies. The SNP have so far given away Scotland’s renewables sector for buttons to private capital and foreign corporations.
Scotland is paying the price for Westminster control.
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Matt Kerr retweeted
Very pleased to contribute to @sheffielduni report launch in Parliament today on workers rights in parcel delivery. Growth in this expanding sector cannot be on the back of low pay and insecure work. Bogus self employment must end
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Matt Kerr retweeted
Ignore the scare stories from the bosses. Working people create the wealth in this country. They deserve strong trade unions to fight for their fair share. telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
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Royal Mail is in crisis. Staff are leaving in their hundreds every week, workloads are becoming unmanageable and communities are being let down. We cannot carry on like this. The Government and company need to work with the CWU on a plan to save this vital national service. mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ro…
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Darren Barker, aka SnoopDeg, compares Black people to monkeys and spends his weekends running about with Nazis in his nonce bonnet. Maryam, who he’s attacking, is a survivor fighting cuts to a women’s service she and others desperately need. Which one is hijacking the movement?
Its literally all the same people with the same schtick.. The last 2 pics are the posts the organisers used to arrange it. "Rape, domestic abuse and sexual assault is rising across Glasgow... services are cut... we are furious..." Then lists a bunch of things that they usually moan about that have fuck all to do with women and children's safety in Scotland 🤔 You can see how they've hijacked this movement too.
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Matt Kerr retweeted
The BBC have shone a light on the harsh pressure postal workers are facing, and the price paid by consumers for the historic mismanagement of Royal Mail. The company has been in structural decline for well over a decade, and the continuous failure to deliver quality of service is killing the brand, demoralising the workforce, and letting down the communities that postal workers are proud to serve.
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Energy bills up📈 Profits up💷 Fuel poverty up😡 It’s time to end the chaos in our energy network, which allows profiteers to flourish while workers and communities are left in the cold. We need public, democratic control to make energy affordable while sustaining decent work. The question is no longer whether we can afford to nationalise; it's how long we can afford not to.
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Devastating news today. My office is there to support the workers impacted. Both governments put together a package to help Syngenta, but the company saw their future elsewhere. The £200m from the national wealth fund must be spent. The town and workers need new industry.
Exclusive: Nearly 400 jobs are to be lost in Grangemouth as a chemicals producer prepares to cease operations in the town. Syngenta has put forward plans to close the site. Comes after 400 jobs were lost in last year's oil refinery closure. scotsman.com/news/politics/n…
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Matt Kerr retweeted
People need to hear less about AI bringing about utopia or the apocalypse, and far more about how the gov't will make it socially responsible, worker controlled, and beneficial to communities instead of tech billionaires. Deputy General Secretary Karen Rose at Labour Conference.
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Matt Kerr retweeted
📣 JOIN THE DEMONSTRATION British Telecom (BT) is cutting 600 telecom worker jobs from Liverpool city centre. CWU branches in Merseyside will hold a demonstation outside the Labour Party Conference to garner support for our campaign to keep BT jobs in Liverpool. If you're based in Liverpool, come along and support BT workers on Monday 28th September from 8am at our demonstration by Keel Wharf. 🔁 Please share
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Matt Kerr retweeted
Palantir is so cartoonishly evil that much like with the Mandelson/Global Counsel thing, which was broadly accepted until it touched on Palantir, the unintended consequence here is going to be a sudden “noticing” of the whole revolving door phenomenon
After six wonderful years at UK Music, I'm joining Palantir UK as Senior Vice President. Palantir is the most interesting company on the planet, doing work of real consequence: helping Britain and its allies defend themselves, helping police protect our citizens and helping NHS staff get patients treated and home sooner. London is comfortably its largest centre outside the US, home to more than one in six employees, the highest proportion among the world's largest technology companies. We have challenges. Some criticism is propaganda. Some raises legitimate questions about large technology companies and sovereign control. Both require answers. Part of my role will be to correct false information while working with our engineers to ensure privacy, security and respect for sovereignty are at the heart of everything we do.
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To scrap the race to the bottom, we need a single status for all workers, a new wave of insourcing - and new organising structures that our movement can use to achieve these aims.
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