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Ethical Pixels @ethicalpixels.com · Sep 11

📢 Preston City Council has launched a grant scheme to help local SMEs cover the fee for Living Wage Foundation accreditation. If you're a Preston-based SME, check your eligibility and apply here:
🔗 www.preston.gov.uk/article/1110...

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Cardiff Business School @cu-cardiffbusiness.bsky.social · Aug 27

💼Job opportunity at Cardiff Business School

Research Associate - Nuffield Foundation Research Project

📅Deadline for applications: Wednesday 10 September

More information on the project👇
nuffieldfoundation.org/project/musc...

Apply here👇
jobs.ac.uk/job/DOH575/r...

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Edmund Heery @edpenarth.bsky.social · Aug 18

Just published as an open access paper by IRJ. An overview of political devolution in the UK and its effects on industrial relations

Edmund Heery @edpenarth.bsky.social · Aug 18

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Devolution and Industrial Relations: An Overview

This article presents an overview of how industrial relations have been shaped by constitutional devolution across the United Kingdom. It shows that the devolved national governments in Scotland, Wal...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Edmund Heery @edpenarth.bsky.social · Aug 18

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Devolution and Industrial Relations: An Overview

This article presents an overview of how industrial relations have been shaped by constitutional devolution across the United Kingdom. It shows that the devolved national governments in Scotland, Wal...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Living Wage Scotland @livingwagescotland.bsky.social · Aug 8

Work with us!
We're on the lookout for a Living Wage Projects Officer who brings experience in employer or business engagement, excels in communication and persuasion, and thrives in collaborative environments.
Find out more here: shorturl.at/oZUE6
#LivingWage #Scotland #Glasgow

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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · Nov 25

Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵

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Will Forrest @wcmforrest.bsky.social · Jan 29

Once again, we’re having to fight to stop music being the first thing an organisation cuts when it has money problems. Please sign this petition - many people have benefitted from the work of Cardiff University’s School of Music, and not just those who have taught and studied there (incl. me).

Sign the Petition

SAVE CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC

www.change.org

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Tony Dundon @tonydundon.bsky.social · Feb 5

Very sad. Great loss to labour and sociology www.ktvu.com/news/uc-berk...

UC Berkeley professor emeritus killed in Oakland hit-and-run crash

A UC Berkeley professor emeritus was killed in a deadly hit-and-run crash in Oakland on Monday.

www.ktvu.com

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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · Nov 14

Welcome new followers. My book, Liverpool and the Un-Making of Britain, is out February next year. Here are the book's epigraphs, one by the great Liverpool historian Tony Lane, another by the wonderful contemporary poet @joriegraham.bsky.social. Pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/liverpo...

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Edmund Heery @edpenarth.bsky.social · Mar 27

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Major UK investors join push for retail giants to pay workers ‘real living wage’

Axa and Scottish Widows back ShareAction campaign for chains such as Next to pay at least £12.60 an hour

www.theguardian.com

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Apr 3

In all the tariff excitement I forgot my paperback is out today.

It's an Economist and FT Book of the year!

Buy it before a global depression means we all have to use books to fuel rudimentary fires!

www.amazon.co.uk/Failed-State...

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David Spencer @davidaspencer.bsky.social · Jul 23

I have a new article out in Ecological Economics (open access):
“Keynes as a post-growth economist” - on Keynes's long-run vision of the economy, its lessons for modern economics debates and the limits of "Green Keynesianism"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Edmund Heery @edpenarth.bsky.social · Jun 3

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Sign the Petition

Halt the Installation of the Aqua Park at Cosmeston Lakes Country Park, Penarth

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · May 13

In Britain, the fast-rising minimum wage is catching up with the bottom rungs of white-collar work. In fact, it appears that a rising number of people who earn annual salaries & don't work in low-paid sectors are now being paid below the legal minimum... www.ft.com/content/5f69...

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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · May 1

Cardiff University strikes called off as job cuts paused

The union warned of a "summer of chaos" if the university did not back down on its proposed cuts.

www.bbc.com

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Edmund Heery @edpenarth.bsky.social · Apr 29

Latest contribution to Welsh economic history by my brilliant colleague, Leon Gooberman. Published by University of Wales Press
www.uwp.co.uk/book/waging-...

Waging War and Building Peace | UWP

www.uwp.co.uk

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · Apr 26

Thousands of people marched through the streets of Barry today in support of Welsh independence

Thousand join latest march for independence in Barry

Thousands of people marched through the streets of Barry on Saturday in support of Welsh independence. South Wales Police estimated that over six thousand people followed the circular route from the t...

wp.me

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John Whitfield @johnwhitfield.bsky.social · Apr 24

UK universities should be advising students and staff travelling to the US on social media use, what border staff are entitled to seize or search, what to do if detained, and how to keep US colleagues safe, says @petraboynton.bsky.social www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

A safety manual for academics visiting America - Research Professional News

Petra Boynton looks at what advice UK universities should give US-bound researchers and students

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · Apr 19

Just 850 more signatures will bring us to 100,000 and trigger a debate in parliament. Plz share widely - I’m holding my breath! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Petition: Ban driven grouse shooting

Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; we think grouse shooting is economically insignifi...

petition.parliament.uk

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Living Wage Movement Aotearoa New Zealand @livingwageaotearoa.bsky.social · Apr 17

“ITUC welcomes new ILO living wage programme

In a step towards ending the global scandal of poverty pay, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has launched a new programme that puts the principle of a living wage at the heart of its support to countries.”

#LivingWage

ITUC welcomes new ILO living wage programme

In a step towards ending the global scandal of poverty pay, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has launched a new programme that puts the principle of a living wage at the heart of its suppor...

www.ituc-csi.org

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · Apr 11

Union members at Cardiff University have announced plans for a marking and assessment boycott on top of strike action in response to hundreds of academic jobs being axed. @julietterowsell.bsky.social reports
#AcademicSky

Cardiff union goes ‘nuclear’ with marking boycott plus strikes

University and College Union disputes institution’s claim to have significant cut job cuts figure

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Andy Hodder @hodderandy.bsky.social · Apr 10

Miguel Martinez Lucio (@workequalities.bsky.social) and I have a new edited text out this month on how workplace representation in the UK has changed in recent years. Please order for your libraries bookstore.emerald.com/focusing-or-...

The book cover image of Focusing or Fragmenting Representation at Work?
Specialist Trade Union Representation in the United Kingdom. The book is edited by Andy Hodder and Miguel Martínez Lucio, published by Emerald and out this month.

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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · Apr 7

New paper in HRMJ: Unions help make remote work more fair - based on research in the US, Canada, and Germany: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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markingall.bsky.social @markingall.bsky.social · Apr 5

'Elbows Up, Britain': US products to boycott: Coca-Cola, Pepsi, McDonald’s, Burger King, Nike, Converse, Levi’s; and tech giants like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Netflix – some of which are harder to avoid than others.

bylinetimes.com/2025/04/02/e...

'Elbows Up, Britain': Canada's Boycott of American Goods Spreads to the UK

How British voters could hold the cards when it comes to resisting President Trump's global trade war

bylinetimes.com

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Edmund Heery @edpenarth.bsky.social · Apr 3

This is really good if anyone fancies reading it

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Apr 3

In all the tariff excitement I forgot my paperback is out today.

It's an Economist and FT Book of the year!

Buy it before a global depression means we all have to use books to fuel rudimentary fires!

www.amazon.co.uk/Failed-State...

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Edmund Heery @edpenarth.bsky.social · Mar 27

For anyone wanting to know more about ShareAction, there is an account of its campaign to spread the #LivingWage in our book, The Real Living Wage: Civil Regulation and the Employment Relationship (Oxford University Press).

Edmund Heery @edpenarth.bsky.social · Mar 27

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Major UK investors join push for retail giants to pay workers ‘real living wage’

Axa and Scottish Widows back ShareAction campaign for chains such as Next to pay at least £12.60 an hour

www.theguardian.com

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Edmund Heery @edpenarth.bsky.social · Mar 25

Duncan - here it is. Not sure what I did wrong first time
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Don’t visit the US – it just isn’t worth the risks right now | Arwa Mahdawi

Minor visa infractions have seen tourists detained, shackled and deported by overzealous US border staff. There are many more welcoming places to go on holiday, writes Arwa Mahdawi

www.theguardian.com

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Edmund Heery @edpenarth.bsky.social · Mar 25

Duncan - it was meant to be a repost of an article in The Guardian summarising recent cases of visitors being detained. I’ve no plans to go while Trump is in power though I’ve been a frequent academic visitor in the past

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