They made his day

Care workers from three Scottish council areas demand that they are not made 'scapegoats' at a joint rally over equal pay. i.stv.tv/3PRG81F

14.2 million for a women’s basketball game is just staggering. Would have been inconceivable two years ago.

Union calls on First Minister to intervene on council equal pay claims
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Ping Pong Dim Sum UK in London have replaced service charge with a 15% “brand fee” to go towards company costs.

Workers have been compensated with £1 an hour above the minimum wage.

This is a cynical attempt to circumvent the Fair Tips Law & deny workers £££s.

Reminder that tonight at 9pm on BBC Four - Tish is being shown. It deserves a couple of hours of your time.

Woman wins £48k following ‘effective demotion’ after equal pay complaint dlvr.it/T4hrmg

How Alex Jones turned a tragedy into a battleground.
Got to see this SXSW it is an astonishingly good doc. Terrifying and uplifting at the same tîme. The court room scenes alone are extraordinary. Highly recommended theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…

Judges who belong to the Garrick have a choice: play fair by women, or stand down from rape and sexism cases.
I 100% agree with Karon theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles…

'The Fair Work Commission expert panel found that the work of aged care sector employees has historically been undervalued because of assumptions based on gender'.

In 1954 #OTD a massive petition supporting equal pay was organised by the Equal Pay Coordinating Committee & presented to MPs at a demonstration on March 9. Illustration from Public Service, the NALGO journal, now UNISON - UK's largest union (Cartoon James Friell)

This genius substituted ‘erectile dysfunction’ for ‘menopause’ in the intro to that new Lancet editorial and I’m howling.

Rock climbing in long skirts and hats

Rock climbers Lucy Smith and Pauline Rankin of the Ladies’ Scottish Climbing Club, 1908, Salisbury Crags, Scotland  #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth

Solidarity with the GMB women fighting for pay justice in Birmingham.

The council must repay the wages they’ve stolen from our members, and work with GMB to end the discrimination.

If not, I’ll see you on the picket lines. ✊
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The National Care Service brings not a penny in
improvements to the workforce, in fact the Scot Govt took 38 mill ££ in 2023 from fair work in social care & not a penny for 2024 after removing temp sick pay provision in 2023 with nothing to replace it. A fair work failure 👎🏽

Excellent fact-based analysis as always from Chris Grey 🇺🇦. And worth the price of admission for these two paragraphs alone.

This duck needed help, the situation was serious and its friends asked a human

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Shreya was brilliant. We are all going to need to brush ip on EA10 s14 and cedaw