Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social

This year on #ValentinesDay support the #gigeconomy #workers at #Deliveroo & #UberEats by not ordering food from these platforms & helping them make their one day strike effective.

Many drivers struggle to earn a #livingwage, while their exploitative conditions are now well known.

these are no tech-firms, their business model is based on #wagetheft & the denial of workers' rights as a way to build market share & profitability.

Stand with the riders & drivers!

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/12/takeaway-riders-deliveroo-uber-eats-strike-valentines-day-living-wage-delivery-drivers

What's currently getting in the way of the #India - UK #trade deal?

Now it seems the Indian Govt. is keen to get national insurance contributions paid by temporary staff in the UK (mainly in the IT sector) transferred back to India... the UK, of course, wants to hold on to the money even though the #workers concerned would never receive an associated pension in the UK.

Oh dear, quiet state #wagetheft has been exposed... and the Indians (unsurprisingly) are not happy

You can say you opposed it, you can say you were indifferent, you can say you were complicit, but the one thing you cannot say is that you didn’t know.

#israel #palestine #gaza #genocide

you know, i'm pretty fucking sick of billionaires

As both Labour & the #Tories scrabble to find new ways to 'listen to business', we seem to be caught up in the old claim that 'What is good for GM is good for the USA'... refracted into UK #politics (again).

However, what experience tells us is that Capital's factional interests seldom produce a political economy that serves the long-term general interests of #business or us.

We need politicians with clear & workable economic strategies, not people who respond to the CEO's who shout loudest!

Microsoft has endorsed KOSA, the legislation that the GOP wants to use to cut off access to information for LGBTQ youth (leading to untold self-harm, suicide and destroyed lives) and ruin the open Internet with ID requirements.

Please contact your reps and demand they vote against it.

Also, fuck you, Microsoft.

To take quick action: https://www.stopkosa.com/

Although prepared for last Autumn's budget, this briefing from the Women's Budget Group on #gender & #taxation remains apposite as the #Tories contemplate more destruction & hobbling of #publicservices:

'Because of structural gender inequalities in the labour market and society – and because women are more likely to be unpaid carers - women rely particularly on public services. Cuts in public services therefore have a disproportionately detrimental impact on women'!

https://wbg.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Tax-Pre-Budget-Briefing-Autumn-2023-FINAL.pdf

#Ethics

To me, the most frustrating thing about capitalism is not that it exploits everything and commodifies everything and then, ultimately, turns all those things into trash.

The most frustrating thing about capitalism is that it has created such intellectual decay among most humans, that it is deemed as normal to accept that if something cannot be solved by the market, then it cannot be solved at all.