Today @judekd.bsky.social joined euromines & Aggregates Europe in Oslo 🇳🇴 to discuss why it’s so important to have a strong social dimension to Europe’s raw materials strategy. 📝

Dependencies will lead to deindustrialisation. 😡

We need action now with workers at the decision making table! 👷🏽👷🏿‍♀️👩‍🔧

The steel sector is at breaking point. At the OECD Steel Committee, TUAC, @industriall-union.org and @industrialleurope.bsky.social warned that overcapacity and underinvestment are putting jobs and regions at risk. Trade unions call for investment in workers, low-carbon steel and a Just Transition.

Fantastic to visit Elektrowerk Weisweiler plant producing low carbon ferrochrome with local shopstewards, @igmetall.bsky.social and industriAll Europe crew.🤩

Read @judekd.bsky.social perspective in changer 1️⃣ 0️⃣

Investment is the solution to making Europe more competitive.

This is the message ETUC General Secretary @estherlynch.bsky.social carried to EU leaders from @pes.eu this morning ahead of today's #EUCO.

Reform’s Richard Tice avoided nearly £600,000 in tax The deputy leader’s property company paid nothing in corporation tax on multimillion-pound profits for most of 2018-21

Richard Tice:
- engaged in highly aggressive tax avoidance to avoid nearly £600,000 of tax
- did so at a time when the taxpayer was already paying his salary as an MEP
Nothing patriotic about this party of grifters
www.thetimes.com/article/6f55...

Iceland locks in on date for EU referendum | Euractiv As a member of the European Economic Area, Iceland is already aligned with much of the bloc's legislation

Just announced: Iceland has urgently moved up its referendum to join the European Union - to 29 August.

A reminder: 🇮🇸 is in many ways already a non-voting 🇪🇺 member because of the EEA. This would give them voting power to shape the laws they have to follow.

This.

Amid European energy fears, coal creeps back into favour A protracted conflict in the Middle East would dent expectations that global coal consumption will start to fall

Amid European energy fears, coal creeps back into favour

www.ft.com/content/8dbb...

Iran Crisis Proves Europe Cannot Delay Its Industrial Transformation The US–Israeli strikes on Iran lay bare every fault line in Europe's energy dependence, industrial fragility, and strategic exposure — and demand an immediate policy response.

Iran Crisis Proves Europe Cannot Delay Its Industrial Transformation

Our @industrialleurope.bsky.social take

www.socialeurope.eu/iran-crisis-...

The @ec.europa.eu has sent a clear message: the pay transparency directive is here to stay. National governments who hedged their bets must now make up for lost time and work hard to ensure they meet the forthcoming transposition deadline

Iran Crisis Proves Europe Cannot Delay Its Industrial Transformation The US–Israeli strikes on Iran lay bare every fault line in Europe's energy dependence, industrial fragility, and strategic exposure — and demand an immediate policy response.

Iran Crisis Proves Europe Cannot Delay Its Industrial Transformation

Our @industrialleurope.bsky.social take

www.socialeurope.eu/iran-crisis-...

The European Commission has launched the Industrial Accelerator Act: a step towards strengthening Europe’s industries and introducing a #MadeInEurope approach with quality jobs at its heart.

IndustriAll Europe General Secretary @judekd.bsky.social 📢

“Companies receiving public money must re-invest a fair share of profits into creating quality jobs, training and technology to raise productivity.”

The CCMI Study Group on RESourceEU Action Plan (CCMI/259) meets Thursday 14:30-16:00 💭

The panel will discuss the acceleration of the #criticalrawmaterials strategy at a crucial time for EU industrial #preparedness and #competitiveness💎🪨

Read more: link.europa.eu/BT3KmM

Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein’s sordid men’s club Files reveal a world of flattery and fratboy tones, where rich men are cultivated and women provide services

Grim but important read.

Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein’s sordid men’s club

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Deregulating Workers' Rights Will Not Save European Industry — It Will Only Deepen the Crisis, write @judekd.bsky.social & @ibarthes.bsky.social of @industrialleurope.bsky.social
www.socialeurope.eu/deregulating...

⌛ Europe’s industrial crisis is real, and it demands decisive action. But weakening workers’ rights is not action — it is avoidance. It is a political shortcut masquerading as industrial policy.
📣 Blog by @judekd.bsky.social in @euractiv.com ⬇️

Deregulating Workers' Rights Will Not Save European Industry — It Will Only Deepen the Crisis | Euractiv Europe’s industrial crisis stems from high energy costs, weak demand and global competition — not workers’ rights. Deregulating labour protections worsens instability. A credible strategy requires inv...

The deregulation agenda misses the point entirely.

No factory is closing because employees have the right to know how their pay is structured or because precarious workers deserve basic protections.

Read @judekd.bsky.social and Isabelle Barthes's opinion

www.euractiv.com/opinion/dere...

Deregulating Workers' Rights Will Not Save European Industry — It Will Only Deepen the Crisis | Euractiv Europe’s industrial crisis stems from high energy costs, weak demand and global competition — not workers’ rights. Deregulating labour protections worsens instability. A credible strategy requires inv...

Europe’s industrial crisis stems from high energy costs, weak demand & global competition — not workers’ rights. Deregulating labour protections worsens instability.

@judekd.bsky.social

www.euractiv.com/opinion/dere...

‼️"Deregulating #Workers' Rights Will Not Save European #Industry - It Will Only Deepen the Crisis", say @industrialleurope.bsky.social's @judekd.bsky.social & Isabelle Barthès ahead of #Antwerp Industry summit & informal #EUCO @consilium.europa.eu‼️
@belgiumineu.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/indu...

Reacting to @ec.europa.eu Stéphane Séjourné @estherlynch.bsky.social @etuc-ces.bsky.social and @judekd.bsky.social @industrialleurope.bsky.social insist European preference must deliver quality jobs and strong industry in Europe etuc.org/en/pressrele...

‘It’s like a gift from God’: undocumented foreign workers welcome Spanish amnesty Half a million migrants will be ‘regularised’ under plans to boost economic growth that have angered rightwing parties

Humane and sensible step move by Spain in facilitating irregular migrants and asylum seekers to move to work with decent pay, social security and tax payments. Predictably the right is grumbling - unlike the UK, the govt isn’t allowing this to set their policies www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Operation: HANS OFF! Canada, France & Denmark Unite Against Trump (A Musical) YouTube video by Matthew Thomas Gillespie

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I_n...

We must all use our voices however loud to #StandAgainstFascism

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✊🏽✊🏻✊🏿✊ @mnaflcio.org @aflcio.org

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

🔔 The EU industry trade union, @industrialleurope.bsky.social, rings the alarm bell, warning that the chemicals industry is facing mass job losses.

📈They cite high energy prices and global overcapacity as some of the problems they’re facing.

More in our #ToxicFree4EU: buff.ly/ubr3Vuu

'Very deep poverty' in Britain hits record high, new report finds Poverty in Britain has deepened, according to a report released on Tuesday, with approximately 6.8 million people now living in "very deep poverty", the highest level in three decades.

'Very deep poverty' in Britain hits record high, new report finds

www.reuters.com/world/uk/ver...

Wow.

Everyone Gets a Cut, and Migrant Workers Pay the Price Endemic corruption in the Bangladesh-Malaysia migrant worker system is enriching some, while trapping the hopeful in a punishing economy of exploitation.

Endemic corruption in the Bangladesh-Malaysia migrant worker system is enriching some, while trapping the hopeful in a punishing economy of exploitation