How to organise young workers
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One of the most visible impacts of capitalist globalisation has been the massive expansion of low-paid (and often semi-casual) jobs in the service sector.
Union organising
Workers' Liberty 3/3: Factory bulletins in the 1920s and today
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Workers' Liberty 3/3 (March 2006) reproduces many communist factory bulletins from the 1920s, and discussion from that era about how they should be produced. "Workers cannot write newspapers? Really? Just tell us some news about your factory". It also includes information on workplace bulletins produced by the AWL. Click here to download pdf.
Union organising: how to be a Troublemaker
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Kim Moody is a writer and activist in the labour movement. His books include Workers In a Lean World and US Labor in Trouble and Transition.
Costa Concordia: cruise industry workers must organise
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The tragic Costa Concordia sinking off the coast of Tuscany, with the loss of 15 lives and 20 people still missing, has turned the spotlight on the cruise industry, a world dedicated to pandering to the snobbery and greed of the rich and wannabe-rich.
AWL meeting, Isle of Wight. Lessons from history: "With Babies and Banners".
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Date:
26 July, 2009 - 21:00 - 23:00
Location:
Victoria Room, Methodist Church, Quay St, Isle of Wight
Description:
- As a contribution to the Save Vestas campaign, we are showing With Babies and Banners, a film about the 1936 struggle at General Motors factories in Flint, Michigan, whose victory curbed a vicious management, launched the unionisation of the US car industry and inspired millions of American workers to fight the effects of the Depression.
- The film focuses in particular on the role of women workers, strikers' families and wider community support in the victory.
- Followed by discussion, with plenty of time for questions and contributions.
For more information email awl@workersliberty.org or ring Ed on 07775 763 750
Conference called by Leicester TUC on unions in the crisis
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Date:
16 May, 2009 - 12:30 - 18:00
Location:
Moat Community College, Maidstone Road, Leicester
Description:
Leicester and District Trades Union Council: a conference
"A Standpoint on the Crisis: Defence through self-organisation - Rebuild Trades Councils and the Shop Stewards' Movement... We especially invite Midlands Trades Councils and trades unionists, members of National Shop Stewards Network and interested individuals".
Charges: £10 (with organisational support), £5 (waged individuals) others free or donation. Cheques to "L&DTUC" to address below
For enquiries please contact Paul Henderson, 22 West Avenue, Leicester LE2 1TR; Bernard Harper, bhleic@yahoo.co.uk; Alan Sanley, 0116 251 3793 or stanley.alan@btinternet.com.
Download flyer for the conference, including agenda.
No Sweat London forum: "Super Size My Pay", with Mike Treen and Axel Persson
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Date:
16 February, 2008 - 14:00
Location:
University of London Union, Malet St, London WC1
Description:
For other meetings in this tour, click here.
Reception for Mike Treen and Axel Persson, speakers on "Super Size My Pay" tour
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Date:
15 February, 2008 - 18:00
Location:
Bread & Roses, 68a Clapham Manor Street, London (Clapham Common tube or Clapham High Street rail)
Description:
For other events in this tour, click here.
IWW Starbucks Workers' Union film showing
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Date:
7 June, 2007 - 20:30
Battersea and Wandsworth TUC launch meeting for young trade unionists' network
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Date:
19 September, 2006 - 20:30