Branch Secretary @CwuGlasgow | Local Councillor - Linn Ward @GlasgowCC @ScottishLabour @ScotCoopParty
Glasgow, United Kingdom
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A message from a drenched, Scottish @CWUnews postie to Simon Thompson & Royal Mail.
#StandByYourPost #EnoughlsEnough
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Fantastic St Patrick’s festival parade in Glasgow. Well done to all the organisers 👏 Great day out and celebration of community and culture. ☘️🇮🇪🏴
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Royal Mail are planning to force new employees to work for £1 less an hour, to be expected to work 5 days over 7 with no Sunday allowances, and aim to smash @CWUnews to do so.
We will not let younger generations suffer this Thatcherite onslaught. We will fight.
#StandByYourPost
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And that’s that! 📮
I’m hanging up my bag, shorts and PDA as I finish up my last shift as a delivery postie before starting my new role as a @CWUnews Branch Secretary on Monday.
Lots of challenges ahead for our movement, but I can’t wait to get started.
Onwards! 😊
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Today is polling day in the Glasgow Linn by-election. 🗳
Make it count, vote John Carson 1️⃣ and @ScottishLabour will deliver for Linn 🌹
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Saturdays are for Solidarity ✊
Massive thank you to all those who came out to support our strike action today.
#StandByYourPost
@CWUnews @cwu_scotland
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Anas Sarwar and Scottish Labour have repeatedly called for a ceasefire.
The scenes below are simply ignorance disguised as ‘principled’ protest, and which will have absolutely zero impact on the tragic situation in Gaza.
“Anas Sarwar you can’t hide, you’re supporting genocide! Scottish Labour you can’t hide, you’re supporting genocide!”
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Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has repeatedly called for and voted in favour of a ceasefire in Gaza.
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Whilst Glasgow suffers from budget cuts, a struggling NHS, covid recovery, a cost of living crisis, people queuing for foodbanks and no meaningful action on drug deaths - the SNP are obsessed with the only thing they ever obsess about - independence.
Glasgow deserves better.
🪧 Indy Rally - 5.30pm - Buchanan Street steps
This is no longer just about independence, this is about the very notion of democracy in Scotland #Indyref2 #UnionOfUnequals
ALT Image of independence demo in Glasgow. Text reads. Independence Rally - 5.30pm, 23rd Nov, Buchanan Street
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Massive thank you to @UKLabour Shadow Cabinet member @lisanandy for coming out on the doors and meeting the good people of Glasgow in Anderston/City/Yorkhill ward.
Politicians like Lisa show that Labour is serious about engaging with local communities right across Britain.
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Royal Mail CEO Simon Thompson says that it is ‘absolutely not true’ that parcels get prioritised over letters.
This is a nonsense and managerial approach over a long period was to prioritise tracked and premium items.
Is Pinocchio before the @CommonsBEIS committee?
@CWUnews
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Honoured to be selected by @CathcartLabour as our candidate for Linn. 😊
Whilst this campaign will take place after the sad passing of our comrade Malcolm, I know the Glasgow Labour family will be working tirelessly night and day to deliver a victory that will do him proud. ❤️
The Cathcart Labour Party are happy to announce that, following this evening’s selection meeting, @PostmanCarson has been unanimously selected as the @ScottishLabour candidate for the Linn by-election on Thursday 17th November 🌹
Congratulations, Johnny. 👏
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Sensational @ScottishLabour team out in Linn this morning. We are absolutely in this to win this. 💪
Vote John Carson on Thursday 17th November, and Labour will deliver for Linn 🌹
#LabourDoorstep #TeamLinn
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And that’s a wrap from (most of) us!
A very Merry Christmas to all, from your hard working posties in Rutherglen, Cambuslang and Blantyre. 🎅🧑🎄📮
@CWUnews
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Speaking in support of Motion 15 on the right to strike at @ScottishLabour conference #ScotLab23 @CWUnews
Our posties are on strike in order to save the jobs, services and communities they love - the Tories are only interested in attacking worker freedoms
We need a Labour Govt
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Labour’s job is to stand up for the people of Glasgow, it is a pity that SNP Cllrs are unable to support that.
Instead, SNP Cllr Kelly and co. are doing their ‘job’ of cutting psychological services in Education - a job his SNP Council are doing on behalf of his SNP Government.
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The problem for the SNP is that it has fundamentally unstable foundations. When its entire belief system rests on the ideological commitment to separation whether or not it would be good for Scotland (and it wouldn’t be) then any falsehood is permitted and any failure is excused.
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Looks like SNP Councillor Alex Kerr does not want to talk about the £80 million of cuts to services that his SNP Council have just stripped from Glasgow, courtesy of their SNP Government in Edinburgh.
SNP Government - SNP Council - SNP budgets - SNP cuts.
Looks like the Labour party in Glasgow have decided they don't need to show up to Glasgow's city budget.
It's no wonder the people of Glasgow no longer trust them to run our city - an absolute dereliction of their duty as councillors.
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Super Sunday Squad at Glasgow South East DO.
Not giving up, not giving in! ✊📮
#StandByYourPost @CWUnews
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Keir is right, we can either have @ScottishLabour MPs who will sit at the heart of the next @UKLabour Government, or we can have SNP MPs acting as highly paid gurners and sitting on the sidelines.
It’s time for change, it’s time for Labour. 🌹
NEW: Labour leader Keir Starmer is asked if he’ll negotiate with the SNP on independence if the latter wins a majority of MPs in Scotland - “no”
@LBC @LBCNewsScot
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Absolutely privileged to join my @Labour_GCC colleagues today for my first full Glasgow Labour Group meeting.
This is a team totally committed to the people of Glasgow. With my ward partner @CateVallis I know that we’ll be working night & day to deliver for the people of Linn.
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Who robbed Glasgow? 👀
Answers on a postcard to: The Scottish National Party, 3 Jackson’s Entry, Edinburgh, EH8 8PJ
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And we’re off! 😊
I am truly humbled by the fantastic turnout and support received today at my campaign launch. It was a real pleasure to take @AnasSarwar and @ScottishLabour colleagues to meet with and listen to the good people of Linn.🌹
#LabourDoorstep
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Independence would not rid us of the divided, scandal-ridden, failing SNP though…
Only by voting @ScottishLabour can Scotland be rid of the blue Tories and the tartan Tories - and, Mhairi knows it.
It does not matter whether we have a Labour or a Tory government, independence would rid us of out of touch Labour and Tory governments forever. 🏴
thenational.scot/politics/23…
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Campaign Launch Video 🌹🌹🌹
I am fighting this campaign to deliver on a strong local legacy left by Cllr Malcolm Cunning; and to say to the SNP & Tories: enough of the distractions - time to prioritise our local parks, schools, health centres and communities.
@ScottishLabour
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One of @UKLabour’s greatest achievements.
It gave me a second chance at a university education once I started working, and has given an outlet for the hopes and aspirations of so many more working people.
#OTD 1966. Jennie Lee publishes paper on the ‘University in the Air’ - the Open University
Initially dismissed as a ‘Pipe Dream’, the OU would give millions of people access to higher education
Thread on what Harold Wilson later called his finest achievement 👇🏼
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Amazing news!
As Scotland’s former newest Labour Councillor, I am so pleased to pass the mantle on to Tony Boyle after his superb victory. He will be brilliant.
Make no mistake, @ScottishLabour is back and ready to serve the people of Scotland! 🏴🌹
🚨 LABOUR WIN 🚨
Congratulations to Tony Boyle for his win in Broxburn, Uphill and Winchburgh!
Well done to the dedicated team who worked hard campaigning for Tony.
It's clear that Scotland are tired of the status quo - and Labour will be the change we need.
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This here is Richie.
Richie worked for Royal Mail for 40 years before retiring in May. Richie was on strike in the 70s as a steelworker for 13 weeks. The fight in Royal Mail now is just the latest chapter in this struggle.
Proud to have him supporting our picket line today ✊
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An absolutely outstanding result from my fellow @CWUnews posties!
A 95.9% yes vote on a 75% turnout!
After 6 months of strike action, postal workers are not wavering, and are not giving up the fight for our communities and services. ✊
#WeAreStillHere
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Cutting 172 primary school teachers in Glasgow 👍
Refusing to cancel the two-child cap when in Government in Scotland 👍
The Scottish Green Party 🟢
#Chancers
Thanks @GordonMcKee_ for responding.
I was extremely disappointed to read he will not be voting to lift the two-child benefit cap.
It's ridiculous to suggest "the new Labour Government is doing everything in it's power to reduce child poverty" and refusing to vote for it.
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Very pleased to have been elected unopposed to serve on the Glasgow Labour Executive.
I'd like to thank all of my colleagues in @Labour_GCC for their support, and look forward to working with our movement across the City to help bring about the change our communities need.
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Well, the SNP press office smear machine is going to have to put in the OT now to come up with something else. 👀
Labour’s New Deal for Workers is the real deal, and will be transformational in spite of the opposition of the SNP-Greens and the Tories.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm55…
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GLASGOW BROWN BIN CHARGES
The new permit scheme for the brown bin garden waste recycling service will commence on October 1, 2023, and will be valid until September 30, 2024. There will be an annual permit charge of £50 for each brown bin.
SNP Glasgow: pay more and get less.
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Proud to be down with @CWUnews comrades this morning supporting the @unitetheunion Liverpool dock workers who are out on strike.
Like our postal and telecoms workers, these workers are fighting for a decent pay rise.
A victory for one will be a victory for all. Solidarity ✊
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Keir Starmer’s actual words:
(The Conservative Party) “can no longer claim to be conservative…it conserves nothing we value – not our rivers and seas, not our NHS or BBC, not our families, not our nation.”
Does
@RealMalcolmM
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Great to be out this morning on the picket line with my @CWUnews colleagues in BT.
If you see a picket line, please go over and show your support & solidarity.
Together, we will win! ✊
#SummerOfSolidarity
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Thrilled to have been joined in Castlemilk this afternoon by our @ScottishLabour MSP team🌹
They know how serious I am about tackling the issues that matter to local people - whether that is restoring basic services or a supermarket that meets local needs.
#LabourDoorstep
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Simply cannot get over the #LabourDoorstep team we had out knocking doors in Castlemilk today.
These fine people have really battled the elements in this campaign, and they just keep going. We are taking no voter for granted in this.
Vote Labour in Linn on November 17th 🌹
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Glasgow South East Royal Mail on strike! Couldn’t be prouder. Standing united! ✊@CWUnews
#StandByYourPost
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Well, after weeks of many hard yards and thousands of conversations we are on the eve of poll, but it’s not over yet!
Thank you again to all my fantastic supporters out today. Great sessions and people dedicated to change and voting Labour.
Let’s do this! 🌹
#LabourDoorstep
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First brilliant session of the campaign today speaking to voters in #Linn and introducing myself as their local Labour candidate.
Road safety around our schools and the closure of the entrance of Linn Park are some issues raised that need to be addressed.
@CathcartLabour
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As a postal worker in Rutherglen constituency, I know the sheer outrage from our communities that Margaret Ferrier failed to do the honourable thing and resign.
Now is the time for change. Now is the time for a @ScottishLabour MP to deliver for workers, families and communities.
MPs on the Standards Committee recommend 30 day suspension for Margaret Ferrier - if agreed by a vote in the Commons, triggers automatic recall petition and opens up possibly of by-election in a seat Labour won in 2017.
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Up the workers ✊🚩
We’ll be voting Yes! in the upcoming strike ballot in Royal Mail. 🗳
#CWUandProud #YouClappedUsNowPayUs
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Simon Thompson and Royal Mail - We Shall Not Be Moved! ✊
15 days of strike action, freezing conditions - stronger than ever.
#StandByYourPost @CWUnews
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Why we fight ✊
Pickets are go again tomorrow morning. Please support your local postie picket located at your local Royal Mail office. 📮
Glasgow South East DO will be out from 6.30am onward: 14 Fullarton Drive, G32 8FA. All welcome.
@CWUnews @cwu_scotland
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Coming from the party cutting 172 primary teachers in Glasgow. ✂️👨🏫👩🏫
🥀 Labour has drifted further and further to the right under Keir Starmer.
📢 They've abandoned the values of millions of people in Scotland.
🤝 The SNP will always represent those left of centre values and we will always put Scotland’s interests first.
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I was very happy to endorse this original YL statement on Ukraine by @nathanneilburns
Unfortunately, the @YoungLabourUK committee has been used for far too long in an unrepresentative manner by an organised elite who consistently ignore the rest of us and pursue their own agenda
This is a version of the statement on Ukraine I and others on the National Committee have tried to get passed by Young Labour all week. It’s been updated to include today’s events.
Link to text version - forms.gle/oEzN14yAQzyaY3sYA
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What a day! Overwhelmed by the support I’ve been getting right across the ward.
Massive thank you to all the great campaigners who have been out today and especially my comrades in @CWUnews.
It’s time for change, it’s time for Labour. 🌹
#LabourDoorstep
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Delighted today to support an allocation of £85,000 toward the safe re-opening of Linn Park entrance with my Labour colleague @CateVallis.
Access to the park is a really important issue for local residents, families and businesses - we are delighted that this is one step closer.
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And now that’s 3/3!
Welcome to my three new Glasgow Labour colleagues. 👏
The people of Glasgow have finally had enough of SNP arrogance, incompetence and division.
Change is coming 🌹
🚨 LABOUR WIN!
Congratulations Davena Rankin - your new Scottish Labour Councillor for Drumchapel and Anniesland!
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This just in:
The SNP have been forced into an embarrassing u-turn and have removed the closure/sale of the Couper Institute from their budget after protests from myself and @CateVallis.
Thank you to @Labour_GCC Councillors for supporting our efforts to save it. 👏🌹
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Great Sunday afternoon session speaking to residents in Newlands/Auldburn ward.
Lots of people really disappointed with 15 years of SNP failures running our NHS, and now switching to @ScottishLabour.
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Great session this evening out in Broxburn supporting @ScottishLabour candidate Tony Boyle for today’s by-election.
Tony will make a fantastic Councillor for this area once again so please Vote Labour 1️⃣. 🌹
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Stephen Flynn is a victim of his own hubris and twisted attempt to play party politics on an issue of such importance.
Really pleased Labour’s motion calling for an immediate, humanitarian ceasefire has passed unopposed.
"We’ve been the victims of a stitch up."
Stephen Flynn, the SNP Westminster leader, responds to Commons Gaza vote chaos.
He tells @krishgm that the Speaker is 'now going to have to convince me his position is tenable'.
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Anas has no shares in the business and no control over the business but is working night and day to bring in legislation to improve wages and terms and conditions in the business.
Wonder why Stephen Flynn and the SNP *don’t* want to tax big oil and gas firms? 👀
The family firm *do not* pay all staff the real living wage.
Do as we say, not as we do.
No wonder Labour are watering down their promises on workers right.
Astonishing.
Community note
The company in question do in fact, pay the living wage
news.stv.tv/scotland/worke
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Remembering today the 80th anniversary of the execution of Hans and Sophie Scholl - German students who as part of the White Rose resistance gave their lives in defiance of the Nazi regime.
May we all have such courage in the face of hatred, war and tyranny.
Long Live Freedom!
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Another fine evening speaking to local people in Cambuslang.
The community here is absolutely outraged with local MP Margaret Ferrier, and are calling on her to go.
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Getting a wee heat at Glasgow SEDO this morning. 🔥
Come down and support the postie strike if you can. After everything we have done during Covid, and every day since, we deserve more than 2%.
#StandByYourPost 📮
@CWUnews @CWUYoungWorkers
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You can just smell the desperation from @theSNP
#ProjectFear
📢 The SNP will always prioritise the NHS and defend its founding values.
🥀 Labour want to privatise the NHS.
🗳️ On July 4th, vote SNP to protect our NHS.
Community note
Wes Streeting, Labour's shadow Health Secretary has said "the NHS will be privatised over my dead body"
lbc.co.uk/radio/presente
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No greater damage will be done to the cause of independence than the facts of independence itself, no matter which party tries to dress it up. Time for unity, not division.
“The SNP have probably… done more damage to the cause of independence than Labour Party and the Conservative party put together”
Journalist @kmckenna63 says “root and branch” reform of the SNP is required otherwise independence is “done”
#bbcdn bbc.in/3VZJiTr
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Not even the rain can stop our mighty teams on the #LabourDoorstep this morning.
We are serious about serving the people of Linn and are taking our message to the residents of Carmunnock today.
We don’t stop. @ScottishLabour @CateVallis
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The Rutherglen & Hamilton West by-election will highlight for the whole of Scotland that the SNP are an anti-Labour cartel whose days are numbered.
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One would only have to consult the people of Glasgow, on the question of the deteriorating state of our City’s services, to know that the only person who’s truly ‘at it’ is the leader of Glasgow City Council and her SNP/Green cronies…👀
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Outrageous that the flagship SNP election promise has just been broken - they are raiding the £23 million infrastructure fund for Glasgow’s communities, in order to cover up other SNP spending cuts in Glasgow. 👇
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The cat is out of the bag 👀
Vote SNP get Tory.
I did a TV interview with ITV yesterday & they let the cat out of the bag - the SNP would bring down a Labour govt, and usher in another Tory govt in the unlikely event of a hung parliament.
Not sure Scottish voters will be keen to hear that.
Change is coming with @UKLabour
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Tommy was a dear friend, mentor and political father figure.
I will miss his friendship and company greatly, but want to thank him for everything.
My thoughts and prayers are with Eleanor, Thomas, Stephen, Michael, Brian and all the family.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam. 🌹☘️
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Glasgow Labour Councillors have returned to their offices to help our communities cope with years of SNP cuts:
✂️ Education - cut by £4 million
✂️ Swimming Pools - cut by £1 million
💷 Tax up by 5%, and charges on brown bin collections.
SNP Glasgow - Pay more, get less.
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It is an honour to have been elected Depute Leader of the Glasgow Labour Group by my @Labour_GCC comrades, together with our new Leader @Cllr_Rashid.
I'd like to pay special tribute to our outgoing Depute @Soryia who has served with courage & determination these past years. 👏🌹
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Great to join @RMT_Scotland activists at Glasgow Central Station this morning to support their vital campaign to keep ticket offices open.
These are vital services that help all in society but particularly the elderly and vulnerable. @AvantiWestCoast must listen to the people!
Solidarity to RMT Save Our Ticket Offices protest at Glasgow Central Station from John Carson CWU also a Glasgow City Councillor holding campaign placard is Eireann McAuley Equality & Policy Officer at STUC @CWUnews @ScottishTUC @STVNews
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Speaking to fellow posties on the disgraceful action being taken by Royal Mail in this dispute. Pay cuts, redundancies, attacks on terms & conditions. Totally unacceptable.
We’ll be on the picket again tomorrow. ✊
#StandByYourPost
@cwu_scotland @CWUYoungWorkers
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It's time for change to mean change. The new CEO must rebuild our valued postal service in cooperation with hard working posties and our union @CWUnews.
CWU responds to the appointment of a new Royal Mail Group CEO
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Out today in Drumsagard village in the lovely weather with the mighty @RutherglenCLP.
It's time to restore dignity and values to our politics.
It's time for Margaret Ferrier MP to resign.
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Just look at these numbers out speaking to people in Castlemilk for our @ScotCoopParty campaign day! 🤩
Co-ops are incredibly important for putting power & wealth within the control of our local communities. They are the building blocks of a better society.
#LabourDoorstep
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Really privileged to be joined by @SarahOwen_ today door knocking in Croftfoot. 😊
Sarah is a dedicated @UKLabour MP and trade unionist. She will do a fantastic job in the next Labour government and will help people across the UK.
Thank you everyone 👏
#LabourDoorstep
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The dogs in the street know, it’s time for the Tories to go!
Beautiful morning campaigning in Eastwood for @GordonMcKee_, the @ScottishLabour voice for change in Glasgow South.
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Scottish Labour is back!
Congratulations @mgshanks you only went and done it!
A huge congratulations to our fantastic candidate Michael Shanks!
You led a positive campaign focused on the priorities of people across Rutherglen & Hamilton West.
We know you’ll do an amazing job representing this constituency.
Scottish Labour - the change Scotland needs.
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LINN PARK UPDATE 🌳
£85,000 has been secured to part-fund the reopening of the Snuff Mill entrance to Linn Park.
This was a community effort between @LoveLinnPark, @Cathcart_DCC, @SandOC_CC and @GlasgowCC Councillors that got unanimous support at the Linn Area Partnership.
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Many thanks to all our #TeamLinn activists out on the doors today in Simshill and Carmunnock. 😊
Support for Labour has been fantastic, people really appreciating that this is a ward I am proud to live in and grow up in. 🌹
Labour for Linn on November 17th 🗳
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Excited and truly humbled by the support I’ve been getting right across Linn. But we’re not there yet!
With one week to go, every vote counts and every hand will help us deliver a proud, local @ScottishLabour and @ScotCoopParty champion for Linn 🌹
Join us!
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Standing with @CateVallis and @EISGlasgow outside my old school, @HolyroodSec .
These teachers are working night and day to support our pupils and local communities. @ScotGovFM needs to show that education is still a priority for Scotland with a fair pay award.
#PayAttention
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I am fighting this campaign to deliver on a proud local legacy left by Cllr Malcolm Cunning and to put our absolute focus on the local issues that matter to the people of Linn.
Please support if you can. No amount is too great or too small. Thank you.
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A quick review of today’s @CWUYoungWorkers National Forum 2022.
We had great speakers from @ACORNunion @RMTunion and of course the always inspirational leadership of @DaveWardGS
Now it’s time to stand united on the postal picket lines. ✊
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Fantastic @GlasgowTUC May Day parade in Glasgow today. @CwuGlasgow hitting the road. 🚩
@cwu_scotland @CWUnews
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Gorgeous day out in Blantyre with @RutherglenCLP.
Lots of people here saying that change is desperately needed, and that @ScottishLabour needs to be that change.
#LabourDoorstep
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It is with great sadness that I have learnt of the passing of dear comrade @Malcolm4Linn.
Malcolm was a truly generous, dedicated and passionate public servant, and representative of Labour values, who helped so many people in Linn Ward over the years.
He will be sorely missed
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Great day today with friends and colleagues at today’s @ScotCoopParty conference.
In a world of crisis, the values and principles of cooperation have so much to offer in building a dynamic and democratic economy that puts control back in the hands of our local communities.
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Fantastic evening on the doors in Cambuslang with so many friends and comrades. Support for @ScottishLabour and our brilliant candidate @mgshanks is growing by the minute! #FreshStart #LabourDoorstep
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Massive thank you to @ScotsLabStudent for coming out to our afternoon campaign session. 👏
More and more each day we are speaking to voters who have seen what an SNP Council does and aren’t impressed. They’re voting Labour to deliver for Linn. 🌹
#LabourDoorstep
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