Paul Kershaw
paulsocialist.bsky.social
Paul Kershaw
@paulsocialist.bsky.social
Socialist, trade unionist, housing camapigner and Chair of Unite housing workers branch.
Zarah Sultana MP leaves Labour and announces ‘co-founding a new party’ Socialist Party statement is worth reading: www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/140...
July 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
UK household disposable income fell at its fastest rate in two years in the first quarter - the #costoflivingcrisis continues. The FT report has more background but fails to draw key conclusions: join a union get organised! www.ft.com/content/08a1...
June 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Good to discuss lessons of the campaign against the Tory housing act (ten years ago now) yesterday. Jeremy Corbyn @shacaction.bsky.social and others contributed to the discussion. The campaign was important for us in the Unite housing workers branch. See: www.housingworkers.org.uk/readnews.htm...
June 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Prices 35.7% higher than 2021
RPI inflation has increased to 4.3%, its highest level in more than a year. Read more including Unite facts and figures breifing here: www.housingworkers.org.uk/readnews.htm...
June 19, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Birmingham bin workers vote to continue strike - bin strike could last until December as workers vote for further industrial action.
Read more: www.housingworkers.org.uk/readnews.htm...
June 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Onay Kasab of @unitetheunion.bsky.social
is right we need industrial action to save Birmingham bin workers, local government services & to rebuild services. Details: www.housingworkers.org.uk/readevents.h...
June 5, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Unite is launching an important campaign for fair funding of local councils. Read more and sign letter to MPs here: www.housingworkers.org.uk/readnews.htm...
May 16, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Thatcherite Livv boss joins Notting Hill Gensis housing board
Notting Hill Genesis “looks like slumlords it was supposed to counteract.”
Appoints Thatcherite housing boss to help ‘strategic leadership'!
Read more: www.housingworkers.org.uk/readnews.htm...
April 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Housing association fined £140,000 for health and safety breach - failed to carry out risk assessments. Read more: www.housingworkers.org.uk/readnews.htm... #housingworkers #ukhousing #iwmd25
April 28, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Report of workers at Evolve getting organised "something has to give" and its similar across the sector. Read: www.housingworkers.org.uk/readnews.htm... #ukhousing #housingworkers
April 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
#Solidarity Could you handle an £8,000 pay cut? Unite members aren’t striking for more money, they’re taking a stand to protect what they already have. These attacks are the result of years of austerity ots time to call a halt.
Support the strikers!
April 22, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Support the Livv strikers
Online meeting 6.30pm Tuesday 11 March. More information and zoom details here: www.housingworkers.org.uk/readnews.htm...
March 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Second worst in Europe. Sixth biggest economy in the world. Labour prioritise arms spending
February 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
February 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Great to be out with Enfield Trades Council in Edmonton today.
Unite research shows corporate profit margins jumped 30% over the pandemic. In the same period, business investment fell by 5% www.unitetheunion.org/.../profit-m...). And did you get a 30% pay rise?
February 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Local government unions submit pay claim : all council employees to receive a wage rise of £3,000. Read more: www.housingworkers.org.uk/readnews.htm...
January 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Southwark housing workers to strike over annual leave disgrace.
Workers to walk out as council gives more leave to those on higher salaries. Read more: www.housingworkers.org.uk/readnews.htm... #housingworkers #ukhousing
January 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
8 tech CEOs alone gained over $600 billion this year, 43% of the $1.5 trillion increase among the 500 richest people tracked by Bloomberg. Meanwhile real wages are flatlining in the US. Scott Bessent, Trump Treasury Secretary, stressed the importance of tax cuts for the wealthy.
January 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Really good read explaining how a group of 'voluntary sector' workers forced their union hostile employer to recognise Unite. Follow the link: www.housingworkers.org.uk/readnews.htm... #housingworkers #JobsPayConditions
January 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Serbia protests come to London. Today outside German and Serbia embassy. Background here. Https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/133857/18-12-2024/serbia-protests-follow-deadly-train-station-disaster/
December 22, 2024 at 10:06 PM
Inflation rises to 3.6% RPI - any pay increase less than that is a pay cut. Read more: www.housingworkers.org.uk/readnews.htm...
December 18, 2024 at 10:59 AM
Scrouge employer Livv Housing cancels Christmas parties and tries to break strike by offering pay deal to workers who confirm they are ‘non-union members’ Read more: www.housingworkers.org.uk/readnews.htm...
December 18, 2024 at 10:23 AM
Livv housing workers intensify strike action "result of.. many years of below inflation pay rises... workers have rejected a pay increase of five per cent because this does not reverse the real terms pay cuts they have previously experienced" See: www.housingworkers.org.uk/readnews.htm...
November 20, 2024 at 4:11 PM