Replying to @JaneyGodley
Here’s the game we are playing - one beer as each Tory loses their seat!
Ewan McG ➡️ @ewanmg.bsky.social
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Ewan McG ➡️ @ewanmg.bsky.social
@ewan_mg
🎓Prof @KCL_Law + @CambridgeCBR 🌹Labour law, enterprise law, pensions, corporations, human rights 🌍Make economy democratic, tech safe + reverse climate damage
- I spoke to @BBCWorld today about @thameswater wanting to put up your bills by 44%, after 350 pollution incidents last year, yet paying £158m dividends in March + giving its CEO £1.7m. Best alternative, within @hmtreasury fiscal rules, is special administration, no bailouts
00:00 - It will cost £12.5 billion in the next Parliament to keep water companies under control of private shareholders. We need workers and bill-payers to elect directors on boards, and stop paying polluters of our water. With @NickFerrariLBC on the new Water Special Measures Bill.👇
00:00 - Here's @ThamesWater's annual report. On page 87, it shows: 💩shareholders got £158.3m in dividends, as you got 350 pollution "incidents" last year 🌧️the CEO got £1.712m in total pay - and wants you to pay 44% higher bills 🤑the ex-CEO of Ofwat, Cathryn Ross, is now gainfully
- A real 20% pay rise for lecturers (+2% this year) really isn't too much to bargain for now is it? And reverse the 13% cuts since 2019. But we need a functioning @UCU general secretary to do it. Story on junior doctors getting a +22% pay offer today: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
- Thanks so much to everyone who voted in this historic @ucu General Secretary election. It ain't over! With the incumbent ahead by just 0.1% of members, we need: 🗳️a recount 📧the government to enable e-ballots ❌action to remedy all violations of UCU rules on social media, email
00:00 - Beer game ready for election night. We open one when that Tory loses their seat. Which Tory matches which beer? We're going for: 1. Old Peculiar - @Jacob_Rees_Mogg 2. TT Landlord - @Jeremy_Hunt (or when 20% of Tory MPs lose their seats, as 20% are landlords, like Hunt) 🧵
- Thank you to everyone who voted in the @ucu election! There are so many kind, caring people in our union, so many who see we can turn education around. I’m overwhelmed by support I’ve been shown. Whoever wins, I hope we all work together for democracy, equality + fairness.
- Vote + we'll rebuild @UCU to be a winning force. We'll: 👩🏽⚖️boost our legal department, have a strategy +actually defend workers' rights 🎓back branches with facility time +make every rep a labour law expert 🖥️easy IT reform to never fail a ballot again 👉🏽ewanmg.uk/ucu
00:00 - How can we turn around the failures of @thameswater and @Ofwat? We can't afford shareholders or captured regulators any more. And modern ownership gives workers + billpayers votes in the boardroom. On @BBCWorld with @egoncossou1 on repairing our broken system.
00:00 - The @UAW is right to file actions against Trump and Musk for advocating illegal violations of labor rights. Why do Trump and Musk feel the need to crush workers?Replying to @UAWAfter significant technical delays on X, formerly known as Twitter, Trump and Musk had a rambling, disorganized conversation on Monday evening in front of over one million listeners in which they advocated for the illegal firing of striking workers.
- “United Utilities have discovered that it rains in the Lake District” as it comes up with useless excuses for sewage dumps @MattStaniek is very good here. Water companies will not do their job and should have licences stripped. 👇🏽
- Great by @WindrushWasp, @watervole3 + @ashsmith43: “the regulator has failed to provide key data on how much shareholders in water firms have paid in upgrading infrastructure since privatisation, warning that billpayers have footed the bulk of the bill.”
- "At the heart of this is a failure of the experiment of privatisation... "It's not just water, it's energy, it's rail, it's the NHS." We need modern public ownership, with votes for staff + billpayers on the board. On @BBCWorld talking about how to turn @ThamesWater around:
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