Please unroll @unroll.bsky.social

The Guardian's business model relies on a highly casualised workforce with no employment rights. That's existed without serious collective challenge because in the UK journalism ecosystem, it's a monopolist. It's the only 'liberal' mainstream news org & there's been nowhere else to go.
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This week the Scott Trust sold the Observer brand to Tortoise Media. But they're using this to slash 70 core Guardian jobs in a neat sleight of hand. Observer journalists are *Guardian* journalists on *Guardian* contracts but they're being bundled out of the door.
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All of which to say is: judge any company by how it treats its lowliest employees. The Guardian has managed to maintain a system in which 1/3 of its journalists aren't even employees. The zero hours ones have to take a month off every year to prevent them accruing rights. Not even Uber does that.
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Hey @threadreaderapp please unroll

News coverage of “Gut microbiome strain-sharing within isolated village social networks” via @natureportfolio.bsky.social is here: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 17/

And yet several countries in your table have private healthcare and low admin costs 🤔

Oh, and the rail problems today are caused by network rail - which is already nationalised

I briefly worked for British Rail in 1970/71. It was rubbish. Service was awful. Lines were being shut down even after Beeching. Like working in a Monty Python sketch.