Kate

this is disheartening to see being repeated - we @justfairuk.bsky.social raised this precise inaccuracy with a @theguardian.com journalist back in June

Reform want to rollback workers' rights and cut taxes for billionaires. Spain did the opposite - and has one of the fastest growing economies in Europe.

The UK government is making upwards of £4.9bn in profit from visa fees, citizenship fees & the immigration health surcharge. Meanwhile, people are getting into thousands of pounds of debt or going without food just to afford to these immigration fees. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

To bring good growth to every postcode, new Prime Minister Andy Burnham must scrap Shabana Mahmood's earned settlement plans. Sign the petition now: act.praxis.org.uk/andy-burnham...

"There can be no meaningful strengthening of workers' rights without migrant workers' rights."

Ultimately if rights are to mean anything, we must defend everyone’s rights together, and we can never accept a policy of division

Home Office, No10 & media all so slow to notice just how racialised Mahmood's (un)settlement (remigration by stealth) proposals were (maybe this impact unwitting accident, not design?) But > 2/3 of those on 15 year route would lose status first. More racialised for children than adults unless u-turn

At a time of insecure work, rising living costs and pressure on hard-won protections, we need stronger tools and alliances. Our new project will help increase understanding of workers' rights under int human rights law and strengthen links between unions and civil society.

A few token places on safe and legal routes for refugees cannot in any way mitigate or atone for what this government has done and is doing on asylum or immigration policy. A thread trying to be clear-eyed about this.

Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing. Call for Input: Localizing the right to adequate housing: How local governments and community-led initiatives can contribute the realization of the right to adequate housing. Deadline 21 September 2026 www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for...

🚨 Breaking: 76 civil society orgs have written to the UK Gov calling for economic, social & cultural rights to be recognised. 50 years ago today, the UK ratified #ICESCR50 and promised rights including housing, food & health. That promise remains unfulfilled. Read 👇 justfair.org.uk/wp-content/u...

The result of normalising Reform’s ideas? Neighbour is turned against neighbour | Nesrine Malik

Great piece on how the threat of criminal sanctions can have a role in focusing the minds of employers who seek to 'buy out' their labour law obligations.....

A new blog for Social Europe, drawing from a recent keynote. I argue that AI at work is not just about efficiency. It is about managerial power, workers’ voice, and democracy. If democracy is eroded at work, it does not stay there. It reverberates into society www.socialeurope.eu/silicon-vall...

Important @ieruk.bsky.social briefing by Prof. Ruth Dukes and Prof. David Whyte setting out key recommendations on what is needed for the Fair Work Agency to ensure workers rights are protected in practice and not just on paper: www.ier.org.uk/publications...

Fair Work Agency’s priorities criticised days before its launch. Cornerstone of the UK’s Employment Rights Act ‘in danger of becoming a dead duck’, says @unitetheunion.bsky.social General Secretary. Look out for our detailed Briefing on the FWA tomorrow. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I’ve spent the last year investigating how the UK's broken employment tribunal system lets rogue bosses evade justice. But this is the craziest case,by far. A restaurant chain that lost 21 tribunal claims over several years, yet never paid a single one🧵 www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

"this is a structural design that disproportionately harms Black women... Employers are using childcare as a weapon, they use visa dependence as a leverage, they are using the vulnerability of migrant Black women to extract labour”

📫 We have written to the Home Secretary to strongly oppose the UK Gov's earned settlement proposals and express concerns that they risk causing harm, undermining the rule of law, and raise serious questions about compliance with international rights obligations. justfair.org.uk/moving-the-g...

⚠️New @ippr.org research: 300,000 children will be hit by the Govt’s earned settlement plans. Retrospective changes will deepen child poverty, block access to higher education & trap families in years of uncertainty. This is precarity by design. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

"Let them drink beer"

In Hungary, almost half a million older people receive pensions that leave them living below the poverty line. In a new report, HRW shows how the Hungarian government is failing to ensure older people’s rights to social security and an adequate standard of living. Read more: https://bit.ly/4jBH4VG

Just Fair's statement on the UK Government's proposed asylum 'reforms' "This is a critical moment for the UK, a time for deep reflection on what kind of country we are, and what kind of country we want to be" There is an alternative to advancing division and cruelty

‘Government sources said rules that mean most asylum seekers are not allowed to have jobs will not change.’ It’s absurd that the govt chooses to continue with a rule that puts asylum seekers in a situation of dependency, then attacks then for needing ‘handouts’ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The response to Lam's comments should be a swift, decisive and clear rejection of them ..... this is not that

Great video from our friends @savechildrenuk.bsky.social The government must scrap the two-child limit.

Version of the classic 1936 poster. "Aixafem el feixisme" (Let’s crush fascism) by Pere Català i Pic. This one also reads "No to fascism. Neither on the streets, nor in the town halls." From the 2023 Catalan municipal elections. Damn, this is an image for our times...

"cruelty charter" - excellent piece from @johnharris1969.bsky.social on the UK Government's social security proposals www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

LA's domestic violence service providers talk to @juliannemcshane.bsky.social about ICE's chilling effect on their organizations and the undocumented survivors they serve. “She literally had to choose: physical harm or potential [ICE] custody.”

MAJOR UPDATE Thanks to a series of FOI requests, we've found that less than 4% of exploited migrant care workers found new work through a multi-million pound government scheme. (A thread🧵) www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The Immigration White Paper is set on reducing net migration at all costs, including by blaming migrant workers for their own exploitation. While we work on more in-depth analysis, here’s our initial response.

1/7: At today’s Spring Statement, the government announced yet more panicked cuts to vital support for disabled people. The government also set out more detail about the impact that its huge cuts to support will have on disabled people 🧵

She could have not gone. Or paid for tickets but then accepted seating in a box for security reasons. There were other choices. “The right thing to do” may need more thought. Esp. in a context when you oversee policy that leaves people “choosing” between turning on the lights & feeding their kids…..

This. The incoherence of policy making is hard to comprehend.

"Britain’s social security system has been stripped to the bones: it provides neither security nor enough support to those who receive it." An excellent article from @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social & @aaronreeves.bsky.social exploring the government's planned welfare cuts: bit.ly/41AkTa1