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EP55 | David Pike | TUC | Pizza Hut, Pride and People Power | Local Heroes Podcast YouTube video by Local Heroes

Greggs, Wendsleydale and curry sauce to gay steelworkers, organising and division in our class.

Thanks to the folks at Local Heroes for chatting about the challenges working people face, and where my confidence comes from, that through their unions they can overcome them.

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Its LGBT+ History Month, and this Feburary we need your support for our Save Durham Pride UK Campaign
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And that's a wrap! Time to take today's discussions back to our workplaces and communities and organise!

The 2026 NEY&H TUC & @racequalitynetwork.bsky.social Black Workers Conference is go!

Great to see delegates from across the region coming together in Bradford to discuss anti-racism, collective power and communities.

Shout out to my old collueages at the NEU and their incredible art project celebrating LGBT+ Educators.

I was really proud to be involved in starting this project, and great to see the amazing profiles captured by Gaz Lawerence, and to Graham Ward-Tipping the rep who made it happen!

One week today - the TUC Black Workers Conference 2026!

@tucneyh.bsky.social is bringing Black workers and allies together to tackle the far right and build collective power.

This is a space to learn, share, and organise, centring Black and Global Majority voices.

Tickets here: zc.vg/AMPiz?m=0

Thanks to Dan & Chris at We Are Local Heroes for having me on their show this afternoon.

Keep an eye out for it in the mext few weeks.

A great chat about our movemenets heroes, politics, the food industry and a shared love of pickled beetroot!

PAY FAIR FOR PATIENT CARE - Perioperative Assistants Deserve Parity Theatres assistants in Leeds deserve to be paid properly for the clinical tasks they carry out. Sign the petition to show your support.

Theatres assistants in Leeds deserve to be paid properly for the clinical tasks they carry out.

I've just signed this petition to support them. Please add your name too. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/pa...

More in Common's January MRP More in Common’s new MRP projects a Reform UK majority if a General Election were held today. Based on polling of more than 16,000 Britons, the model estimates that Reform would take 381 seats - with ...

Anyone still thinking Reform wont make gains where you are? Read this constituancy poll showing a 376 seat gain. Sheffield, for example, Labour loose all seats but 1, 3 to reform and 1 to the greens.

This must be a wake up call for us all. Act. Organise.

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Work related stress is rising fast, and the North cannot afford to ignore it A quiet crisis is unfolding across Britain’s workplaces, and it is being felt sharply here in the North.

"Work related stress is rising fast, and the North cannot afford to ignore it" @tucneyh.bsky.social www.tuc.org.uk/blogs/neyh/w...

22 How to be "aggresively hopeful" feat. Dave Pike

Thank you to @organising4achange.bsky.social for inviting me on their Podcast.

As Trade Unionist we build hope among our members, we can and must be ambitious for what we can achieve – listen to our chat about our plans for the @tucneyh.bsky.social;

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Balaclava-clad protesters disrupt Kent refugee debate, MP says Kevin McKenna MP says

This is the disregard being fostered by the right.

Those trying to debate being physically attacked. Actions like this will further erode our democratic spaces.

We must all stand up and fight like hell for our class.

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No lockout for University of Sheffield staff UCU members have been standing up against the continual cutting and restructuring of the last several years which has significantly damaged the University’s international standing, the quality of educ...

Sheffield University must reverse the threat to lockout UCU members without pay following their legitimate strike action.

Please sign our petition to support our call to overturn this dickensian era approach to industrial relations.

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Our Regional Secretary @davepikesheff.bsky.social speaking over the weekend at a rally to support @unisonyh.bsky.social members striking over pay at the National Coal Mining Musuem.

Sign our petition to support their call for the Cheid Exex & Trustees to go - www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/ch...

Yesterday I had the honour of representing the @tucneyh.bsky.social at Durham Pride's World Aids Day event.

The politicisation of queer peoples health care, and its impact, is a trade union issue, and solidarity is the answer. Proper funding for HIV/Aids medical intervention must be our demand.

Thank you to the young trade unionists from across our region who came together for our annual Youth Patrol in Sheffield this weekend. Joined by a delegation from @social.verdi.de speaking to hundreads of young workers across the city, about their rights and why they should join a union

Thank you to @ucu.org.uk members at Sheffield University for welcoming us on their picket lines this morning. Solidarity in their fight against redundancies.

Managment meed to stop playing games and make meaningful offers.

Victory to UCU members in Sheffield!

A moving statement of solidarity with the Trans community to mark Trans Day of Rememberence.

Thank you to Alex Summerson from the NEU, and our regions LGBT+ seat holder for expressing our message on this important day of commemeration.

#TransgenderDayOfRemembrance #transrightsarehumanrights

Victory to @ucu.org.uk members at Sheffield Hallam & University of Sheffield

Management must wake up and listen to staff, vanity projects and six figure salaries wont cut it!

Our universities are a economic lynchpin for our region, and an engine of social mobility

Solidarity to UCU members!

Solidarity with @ucu.org.uk members at Sheffield Hallam on strike this week over proposed redudancies.

The leadership of Sheffield Hallam University must stop and listen to their staff. It is the lectrurers and support staff that keep a University running, not those on 6 figures salaries.

Zohran Mamdani: New York's Working Class Elects a Movement Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist and the Democratic nominee, will be New York City’s next mayor, after trouncing former Governor Andrew Cuomo in a primary and general election double whamm...

An amazing message of hope out of New York today

A campaign focused squarely on the cost of living, unafriad to stand up for diversity, pulled off a political upset like few others

Congratulations to everyone who took to the streets of NYC, you earned this win!

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No woman should have to risk harassment or assault to earn a living.
#Reclaimthenight #WomenEmpowerment
@mayorofwy.bsky.social
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Save Durham Pride! Durham County Council, now led by Reform UK, has withdrawn all it's funding for Durham Pride 2026. Please donate what you can to keep Durham Pride marching on.

🌈 SAVE DURHAM PRIDE 🌈
Durham Council has cut funding — but Pride will march on.
💜 Stand with us.
💜 Donate today.
💜 Share in solidarity.
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#SaveDurhamPride #Solidarity #UnionsForEquality

If You're Watching This Video, Israel Has Kidnapped Me in International Waters YouTube video by Novara Media

Free Palestine. End the genocide now. The UK government and countries around the world must do more. Solidarity with those who have the bravery to act and demand an end to these atrocious. youtube.com/shorts/HiiJn...

Join us to launch the "Year of Trade Union Climate Action" in NEYH 7pm Tue 14 Oct online! Join TUs & climate justice campaigners to kick-start a year of collaboration, meaningful action, & victories!

Sign up at forms.office.com/e/QzCbdKADdL

Incredible show of solidarity and unity yesterday, and a truly diverse response, in Newcastle. Vastly outnumbering the far right, and showing Advance UK and UKIP what the North East is really about. A city of sanctuary in name and action.

Join the briefing on opposing the far right in Newcastle, tomorrow at 6pm www.tuc.org.uk/events/neyh/...

The far right is not welcome in Newcastle!