John Wood
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#Labor geek. Adoptive Londoner. GenX stereotype. #digitalunions & innovation in UK trades unions. He/him.
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On this day in 1855 Eleanor Marx, a co-founder of our union, was born.
She was at the forefront of the fight for the 8 hour working day and consistently fought for justice & equality.
Today we celebrate all her achievements 👏
She was at the forefront of the fight for the 8 hour working day and consistently fought for justice & equality.
Today we celebrate all her achievements 👏
January 16, 2026 at 9:02 AM
On this day in 1855 Eleanor Marx, a co-founder of our union, was born.
She was at the forefront of the fight for the 8 hour working day and consistently fought for justice & equality.
Today we celebrate all her achievements 👏
She was at the forefront of the fight for the 8 hour working day and consistently fought for justice & equality.
Today we celebrate all her achievements 👏
I had a red version aged 9 and being less ballsy a kid than Rob I was too embarrassed to wear it. Partly because my mum had given me a shirt that said 'shit' on it. But also it didn't really look the part with the pork pie hat and two tone scarf I'd saved up my pocket money for.
A t-shirt I had aged 8. It basically says "shit" on it which I thought was the coolest thing ever. Still do actually.
January 5, 2026 at 10:33 AM
I had a red version aged 9 and being less ballsy a kid than Rob I was too embarrassed to wear it. Partly because my mum had given me a shirt that said 'shit' on it. But also it didn't really look the part with the pork pie hat and two tone scarf I'd saved up my pocket money for.
Erasmus changed my life 30 years ago by letting me study in Germany. It broadened my horizons, deepened my understanding and gave me friends across Europe. I'm so glad other UK young people will get this opportunity again - a peaceful, prosperous and happy continent needs it.
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December 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Erasmus changed my life 30 years ago by letting me study in Germany. It broadened my horizons, deepened my understanding and gave me friends across Europe. I'm so glad other UK young people will get this opportunity again - a peaceful, prosperous and happy continent needs it.
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🚨BREAKING: Employment Rights Bill passes in the House of Lords and will become law.
This is an historic day for working people across the country, and the trade unions who represent them.
This is an historic day for working people across the country, and the trade unions who represent them.
December 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
🚨BREAKING: Employment Rights Bill passes in the House of Lords and will become law.
This is an historic day for working people across the country, and the trade unions who represent them.
This is an historic day for working people across the country, and the trade unions who represent them.
Woohoo! The Employment Rights Bill has now passed Parliament, meeting the deadline for new rights like sick pay from day 1 to come into force in April. www.tuc.org.uk/news/tuc-hai...
TUC hails “historic day” for working people as Employment Rights Bill passes Lords
The TUC has today (Tuesday) hailed an “historic day” for working people as the government’s flagship workers’ rights Bill has finally broken its House of Lords deadlock after months of wrangling in pa...
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December 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Woohoo! The Employment Rights Bill has now passed Parliament, meeting the deadline for new rights like sick pay from day 1 to come into force in April. www.tuc.org.uk/news/tuc-hai...
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I hate this for us
Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...
December 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I hate this for us
Really inspiring to help host a union event with Cory Doctorow @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy and some great tech activists this week. Looking at what #enshittification means for UK tech workers, and why tech unions have a huge role to play. Video online now at www.youtube.com/watch?v=m11h...
Tech unions against enshittification - with Cory Doctorow
YouTube video by Trades Union Congress (TUC)
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November 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Really inspiring to help host a union event with Cory Doctorow @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy and some great tech activists this week. Looking at what #enshittification means for UK tech workers, and why tech unions have a huge role to play. Video online now at www.youtube.com/watch?v=m11h...
New laptop, which means new stickers! But despite diligently collecting union stickers for it, I still have unsightly sticker-free gaps! Anyone out there up for the cultural exchange of a union sticker swap? #1u
November 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
New laptop, which means new stickers! But despite diligently collecting union stickers for it, I still have unsightly sticker-free gaps! Anyone out there up for the cultural exchange of a union sticker swap? #1u
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JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Very excited to be involved in this! Both in being a big fan of Cory's work and also in getting together some great tech sector union activists to talk enshittification - and what tech workers and their unions can do to push back against the worst impulses of monopoly platforms.
Tech unions against enshittification, with Cory Doctorow - Tech unions at the TUC
Online event – 18 Nov 2025 Tech unions against enshittification, with Cory Doctorow The internet is getting worse by the day, for users and tech workers alike. It’s part of the big tech playbook to de...
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October 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Very excited to be involved in this! Both in being a big fan of Cory's work and also in getting together some great tech sector union activists to talk enshittification - and what tech workers and their unions can do to push back against the worst impulses of monopoly platforms.
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🚨Closing this Sunday🚨
Work in tech? 💻 Are your pay, conditions and training needs being properly heard at work? Share your experience in our short survey. Your input will help us influence government policy and improve the tech industry for workers. ⤵️
online1.snapsurveys.com/Interview/71...
Work in tech? 💻 Are your pay, conditions and training needs being properly heard at work? Share your experience in our short survey. Your input will help us influence government policy and improve the tech industry for workers. ⤵️
online1.snapsurveys.com/Interview/71...
Starting survey...
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October 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
🚨Closing this Sunday🚨
Work in tech? 💻 Are your pay, conditions and training needs being properly heard at work? Share your experience in our short survey. Your input will help us influence government policy and improve the tech industry for workers. ⤵️
online1.snapsurveys.com/Interview/71...
Work in tech? 💻 Are your pay, conditions and training needs being properly heard at work? Share your experience in our short survey. Your input will help us influence government policy and improve the tech industry for workers. ⤵️
online1.snapsurveys.com/Interview/71...
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I’ve just secured my Workplace Adjustments Passport.
For autistic and disabled workers in the UK, this can be a game changer...1/5
For autistic and disabled workers in the UK, this can be a game changer...1/5
October 1, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I’ve just secured my Workplace Adjustments Passport.
For autistic and disabled workers in the UK, this can be a game changer...1/5
For autistic and disabled workers in the UK, this can be a game changer...1/5
Wes Streeting on the game-changing Fair Pay Agreement in social care: "The people who care for our loved ones should never have to struggle to care for their own". Acknowledges UNISON & GMB care unions' role in designing it "This is the difference that Labour, unions and government make" #Labour25
September 30, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Wes Streeting on the game-changing Fair Pay Agreement in social care: "The people who care for our loved ones should never have to struggle to care for their own". Acknowledges UNISON & GMB care unions' role in designing it "This is the difference that Labour, unions and government make" #Labour25
Reflections from union campaigners at @campaign-lab.bsky.social #Lab25 fringe - One thing political campaigning might learn is keeping momentum going outside a political cycle. Needs listening as much as leading, to be ready as moments arise.
September 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Reflections from union campaigners at @campaign-lab.bsky.social #Lab25 fringe - One thing political campaigning might learn is keeping momentum going outside a political cycle. Needs listening as much as leading, to be ready as moments arise.
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🚀 AI is reshaping our industries but how do we make sure it works for workers?
Join us Fri 26 Sept, 12.30–13.30 with Adam Cantwell Corn & @prospectunion.bsky.social
📍 Zoom
👩💻👨💻Free for Tech, IT & Telecoms workers
👉 Register: prospect-org-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#AI #TechWorkers #FutureOfWork
Join us Fri 26 Sept, 12.30–13.30 with Adam Cantwell Corn & @prospectunion.bsky.social
📍 Zoom
👩💻👨💻Free for Tech, IT & Telecoms workers
👉 Register: prospect-org-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#AI #TechWorkers #FutureOfWork
September 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
🚀 AI is reshaping our industries but how do we make sure it works for workers?
Join us Fri 26 Sept, 12.30–13.30 with Adam Cantwell Corn & @prospectunion.bsky.social
📍 Zoom
👩💻👨💻Free for Tech, IT & Telecoms workers
👉 Register: prospect-org-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#AI #TechWorkers #FutureOfWork
Join us Fri 26 Sept, 12.30–13.30 with Adam Cantwell Corn & @prospectunion.bsky.social
📍 Zoom
👩💻👨💻Free for Tech, IT & Telecoms workers
👉 Register: prospect-org-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#AI #TechWorkers #FutureOfWork
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Hundreds of content moderators are being laid off by TikTok.
Now they're unionising and speaking out.
@cwunews.bsky.social
Now they're unionising and speaking out.
@cwunews.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Hundreds of content moderators are being laid off by TikTok.
Now they're unionising and speaking out.
@cwunews.bsky.social
Now they're unionising and speaking out.
@cwunews.bsky.social
Anyone at TUC Congress #tuc2025 today who wants to talk about how we get to this alternative, come to the fringe "Building a pro-worker AI future", 6.30pm in Brighton Centre room 8 - see you there! 🤓
A CEO bragged that he gets "extremely excited" at the thought of firing people and replacing them with AI.
There is an alternative to letting tech bros control AI.
There is an alternative to letting tech bros control AI.
September 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Anyone at TUC Congress #tuc2025 today who wants to talk about how we get to this alternative, come to the fringe "Building a pro-worker AI future", 6.30pm in Brighton Centre room 8 - see you there! 🤓
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What's Nigel Farage's problem with solar panels?
September 6, 2025 at 9:21 AM
What's Nigel Farage's problem with solar panels?
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Very cool job alert: Policy & Campaigns Officer, Technology and AI, at the TUC - working with 48 unions and 5.5 million members (and me) to understand, negotiate and campaign on AI and new technologies.
Short timeline to apply by 22nd September!
tuc.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
Short timeline to apply by 22nd September!
tuc.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
Policy and Campaigns Officer - London
Policy & Campaigns Officer, Technology and Artificial Intelligence
Grade 6 £44,228 per annum (pro rata), plus London Weighting £6,154 per annum (pro rata)
Temporary – 18 months, Four days (28 hours)...
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September 4, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Very cool job alert: Policy & Campaigns Officer, Technology and AI, at the TUC - working with 48 unions and 5.5 million members (and me) to understand, negotiate and campaign on AI and new technologies.
Short timeline to apply by 22nd September!
tuc.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
Short timeline to apply by 22nd September!
tuc.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
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The industry using AI ads to rally against unions is really packing it in and representatives should vote against them because it's obvious they're packing it in and just plan to run a referendum with their infinite cash. #CALeg
August 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The industry using AI ads to rally against unions is really packing it in and representatives should vote against them because it's obvious they're packing it in and just plan to run a referendum with their infinite cash. #CALeg
There's so much in the Employment Rights Bill that would set a new fairer starting point for workers rights. Tory & Lib Dem peers' amendments would undermine some fundamentals that the government really shouldn't be compromising on. Please help ask them to hold their nerve letter.megaphone.org.uk
Pass the Employment Rights Bill in full: Sign the open letter
Finnola is a supermarket worker, and one of the millions of workers who will benefit if the Employment Rights Bill is passed in full. Please read her story and sign her open letter to the Prime Minist...
letter.megaphone.org.uk
August 7, 2025 at 8:26 AM
There's so much in the Employment Rights Bill that would set a new fairer starting point for workers rights. Tory & Lib Dem peers' amendments would undermine some fundamentals that the government really shouldn't be compromising on. Please help ask them to hold their nerve letter.megaphone.org.uk
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So… Wonderful didn’t even pay their fake anti-union protesters the full amount they promised? Lmao this is depraved, but also clown town
Dirty Money? Behind the scenes of an anti-union "protest" featuring Wonderful Nurseries.
July 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
So… Wonderful didn’t even pay their fake anti-union protesters the full amount they promised? Lmao this is depraved, but also clown town
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Bezos Wedding Guests Given Monogrammed Plastic Bottles To Urinate In During Ceremony
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June 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Bezos Wedding Guests Given Monogrammed Plastic Bottles To Urinate In During Ceremony
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June 3, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Strong labour history work from @mrcwarwick.bsky.social here. Can just about forgive the Beeb mixing up May Day and bank hol if they come bearing union cats.
May Day: The cool cats that fought for workers' rights
A university archive is celebrating the feline members of trades unions across the decades.
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May 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Strong labour history work from @mrcwarwick.bsky.social here. Can just about forgive the Beeb mixing up May Day and bank hol if they come bearing union cats.