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Reform UK would be a disaster.
A disaster for Education
A disaster for our NHS
A disaster for working people.
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Daniel Kebede
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Daniel Kebede
@DanielKebedeNEU
Teacher.
General Secretary of the National Education Union. The largest Education Union in Europe.
@EduInt Executive Member.
neu.org.uk/join
Newcastle
Joined October 2014
- If you clapped nurses on your doorstep during Covid, clap them on the picket lines on 15th December. Fair pay for nurses now! Fund our NHS!
- How wages have faired. MPs: Pay ⬆️ 22% in real terms since 2010 Bankers: Bonuses ⬆️ 101% in cash terms since 2008 CEOs: Pay ⬆️ 23% in 2022 alone Teachers: Pay 🔻 24% since 2010 Nurses: Pay 🔻 20% since 2010 Whose wages are causing the inflation?
- What an amazing picture of Newcastle today. About 10 racists outnumbered by this many Geordies. Sorry couldn't be there. There is an antiracist majority in the UK ❤️
- THIS IS SHOCKING On Wednesday, Sunak said he would prioritise education funding. Now I've just been called into a last-minute DfE meeting (5.30pm Friday), only to be informed that unplanned cuts are coming! School funding will rise by just 2%, not 2.8% promised in July. We
- 70,000 members on our zoom. The biggest trade union meeting ever. By a long way.
- "There is no union without workers, and there are no free workers without a union" - Pope Francis
- Unbelievable scenes in London today. In excess of 50,000 teachers demonstrating for fair funding and pay restoration. As @cyclingkev said today "We strike for our children"... This could've been avoided, had @GillianKeegan followed 🏴 + 🏴 and made a meaningful offer.
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- Every child at Eton had a Covid 19 test on arriving at school. I don't begrudge the children of the super rich having access to Testing. However, if it's good enough for the children of Eton, its good enough for the children of East London, of Easington and verywhere else.
- I was on the antiracist demonstration against Far Right Tommy Robinson from start to finish – including the police kettle on Whitehall. Some thoughts: 1. There were not millions on the TR demo. He is, and always has been, a pocket-sized Pinocchio. 2. The turnout was higher than
- Gawd. We have: - record teacher vacancies - the largest class sizes in Europe - over 1,000,000 children taught in class sizes of 31+ - 40k teachers left the profession last year (9% of profession) - 1700 head teachers gone last year You're not the opposition. You're theToday, Labour are talking about recruiting more teachers, but what's their record? Since 2010 in Labour-run Wales, teacher numbers have fallen while numbers in Conservative-run England have risen by over 27,000 🧵THREAD: Labour are all talk and no substance 🥀👇 1/9
- Notice anything about the children the Daily Mail "edited out", in its attack on Educators today?
- I agree with Johnny Vegas: “If we don’t fight for the NHS, we lose ourselves as a country.” Victory to the @theRCN ! #SaveOurNHS
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