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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help.

This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Thousands of rogue bosses get away with not paying tribunal awards

The government scheme ‘enforcing’ money owed to workers has been unsuccessful in a staggering three-quarters of cases

www.thebureauinvestigates.com

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Zrinka Bralo @zrinka.bsky.social · 24d

Imagine becoming a human rights barrister, MP and Prime Minister! And now your career and your legacy depend upon deporting a bunch of refugees in the same week you have to host unhinged friend of the world’s worst pedophile, just after you fired his other friend, your ambassador.

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Zrinka Bralo @zrinka.bsky.social · Sep 8

if the ministers truly did “whatever it takes” they would do the only thing they did not try and it worked - to welcome refugees as humans and let them rebuild their lives. Shamefully uninformed journalists fail to imagine or mention this positive solution in reporting.
apple.news/AUaJrPRhwQOq...

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Zrinka Bralo @zrinka.bsky.social · Aug 26

Note to media: you don’t have to report everything Farage says!

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Aug 26

The fact that an anti-migrant politician, who tells us every single day that he doesn't like immigration, is saying it once again, is not in any way news

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Zrinka Bralo @zrinka.bsky.social · Aug 26

More people in need of flag-patriotism need to come to London for some flag therapy! The flagscare manufactured by the far-right is a complete flagfraud and flagbait.
Media outlets in need of algorithmic clickbait - do better!

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@HaringeyWelcome @haringeywelcome.bsky.social · Aug 22

The amazing @zrinka.bsky.social shines a light on the hostility-by-design reality of asylum 'hotels' policy.

Zrinka Bralo @zrinka.bsky.social · Aug 22

“The past was erased,the erasure was forgotten,the lie became truth”
We must remember that asylum hotels emerged from the pandemic not as planned or considered solution! Better alternatives exist! Here is the list! @migrantsorganise.bsky.social

www.migrantsorganise.org/asylum-accom...

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Zrinka Bralo @zrinka.bsky.social · Aug 22

If you want to protest against anything in your community, organise and take it to your town hall or government. Shouting at and setting fire at places where scared and vulnerable black and brown people are forced to stay is not a protest- it is racist attack! Journalists need a reality check too!

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Zrinka Bralo @zrinka.bsky.social · Aug 22

“The past was erased,the erasure was forgotten,the lie became truth”
We must remember that asylum hotels emerged from the pandemic not as planned or considered solution! Better alternatives exist! Here is the list! @migrantsorganise.bsky.social

www.migrantsorganise.org/asylum-accom...

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Miriam @miriamboosh.bsky.social · Aug 14

“We’re here to talk about A levels”

“Free Palestine the BBC is complicit” 💀💀

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@HaringeyWelcome @haringeywelcome.bsky.social · Aug 11

So good to see Ghassan's vital work getting exposure on Channel 4 News.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcUZ...

Helping starving Gazans from 3,000 miles away in Manchester

YouTube video by Channel 4 News

www.youtube.com

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Zrinka Bralo @zrinka.bsky.social · Jul 19

This is how normalisied dehumanisation is when it comes to people seeking protection. This BBC news article just glides over the fact that the brand new building was never used due to safety concerns! Never! Yet, no questions asked! ChatGPT has more sense and empathy!
www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Kalayaan @kalayaan.org.uk · Jun 15

We've had a wonderful afternoon celebrating #InternationalDomesticWorkersDay with our community and allies @focusonlabour.bsky.social @effat.org @zrinka.bsky.social & others. Stay tuned for more from us this week as we continue our work to restore rights to this workforce 💪

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Zrinka Bralo @zrinka.bsky.social · Jun 27

Words are cheap and “quiet grief” won’t cut it!
What will make difference?
1. End hostile environment immigration policy,
2. Restore fundamental rights such as right to work for asylum seekers, access to NHS, rights to leave abusive employers for for domestic workers.
apple.news/AC3BFNbfMQYu...

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@HaringeyWelcome @haringeywelcome.bsky.social · Jun 4

Together with 19 other schools, faith groups, and community organisations, we wrote to Home Secretary @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social and local MP #DavidLammy today on behalf of 25 families seeking asylum in our community. #LetThemStay !

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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · May 17

Btw this is one of 2 events we’re running next month. The other is in person in London19-20 June. Still adding speakers but confirmed so far include Bridget Anderson, @zrinka.bsky.social, @zoebantleman.bsky.social, @nandosigona.bsky.social

Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/is-britain...

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British Palestinian Committee @britpalcommitt.bsky.social · May 27

Today we wrote to the Foreign Sec asking for urgent clarity - why is the UK Trade Envoy meeting Israeli officials to promote trade following last week’s announcement? Is this contradiction a renege on policy or what? Share below ⬇️

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Zrinka Bralo @zrinka.bsky.social · May 2

Labour lost 14,700 people! Sadly lessons will not be learned! They will lose more people by trying to outdo the right wing.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reform wins Runcorn byelection by just six votes in blow to Labour

Result will heighten government’s fears it could lose scores of MPs to Nigel Farage’s party at next general election

www.theguardian.com

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Bail for Immigration Detainees @biddetention.bsky.social · Apr 3

🗣️ 🗣️ Human rights are NOT a loophole!

We're appalled that PM Keir Starmer, a former human rights lawyer, called vital human rights a "loophole."

Article 8 of the Human Rights Act protects family life and is under attack as the government pushes deportations.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Yvette Cooper reviews right to family life for people who enter UK irregularly

Government reviews use of human rights law to argue for people being allowed to stay, which PM called a ‘loophole’

www.theguardian.com

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Migrants Organise @migrantsorganise.bsky.social · Apr 24

Today we showed up at Serco’s AGM to engage with shareholders and share an important message from someone subjected to 24/7 GPS tagging.

It’s time for Serco and its insurer Aviva to stop profiteering from the abuse of people on the move— until then, we’ll keep turning up the pressure. ✊🏽🔥

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Zrinka Bralo @zrinka.bsky.social · Apr 25

The hostile environment policy first tested on immigrants is now spreading to all of us.

novaramedia.com/2025/04/24/l...

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Zrinka Bralo @zrinka.bsky.social · Apr 24

GPS tagging serves mainly as an easy source of profit for greedy companies!
Not to mention the audacity of Serco - the favourite enforcer has the audacity to bit for the government contract to support victims of trafficking!

www.sustainableviews.com/shareholders...

Shareholders and activists target Aviva and Serco over GPS tagging

Campaigners say military contractor Serco and insurer Aviva should end their involvement with a UK government contract to electronically tag asylum seekers At a glanceThe electronic tagging of asylum ...

www.sustainableviews.com

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Right to Remain @right-to-remain.bsky.social · Apr 21

PLEASE SHARE - THIS IS URGENT.

The UK government plans to deport our friend, Fatou Tamba, on Tuesday 22 April 2025, on a Royal Air Maroc flight.

We must act urgently to stop this.

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Zrinka Bralo @zrinka.bsky.social · Apr 19

Friends please sign and share this call to release Fatou from immigration detention www.pressenza.com/2025/04/stop...

Stop the Deportation of Our Sister Fatou – Her Life Is in Danger if she is Deported

Fatou Tamba has lived in the UK 18 years and in Liverpool for around eight years. She is set to be deported in a matter of days to The Gambia, a country

www.pressenza.com

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Maximilian Mayer @maximilianiras.bsky.social · Apr 18

‚The question is not whether you “have something to hide.” The question is how much unchecked authority we’re willing to allow before we can no longer call this a free society.‘

* Judith Roberts is Chief judge at Fort Berthold District Court

The New America: Federal (ICE) Agents Boarding Trains?

By Judith Roberts * As an attorney I’m deeply alarmed by an incident that occurred just this week and feel compelled to share it—to raise aw...

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Right to Remain @right-to-remain.bsky.social · Apr 15

Please listen and watch ❤️

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