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.
Young workers meet to discuss organising
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Young workers and working students came together at Goldsmiths College on Saturday 12 May for ‘Student Worker Solidarity 2012’, an activist gathering organised by the Young Members Network of the GMB union’s Southern Region.
How student workers got organised
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Our campaign at Royal Holloway began as an awareness-raising campaign about rights at work.
Fighting the Tories: what next?
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Bankers’ and bosses’ pay and bonuses, share prices, and profits have recovered nicely since the sudden crash of 2008-9.
Sites of struggle: organising in construction
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On 4 March 2012, the long-held suspicions of hundreds of trade union activists in the construction industry were confirmed when it was revealed that the British state had been colluding with construction contractors to prevent union activists from getting work.
London Troublemakers’ Group
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How can we organise to win power in our workplaces and our unions?
NTT cleaners win
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A union campaign has won reinstatement and the living wage for cleaners employed by Dynamiq working at NTT Communications Ltd. in London.
Cleaners fight for their jobs
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Trade unionists will demonstrate outside the offices of NTT Communications Ltd. in London, where cleaning contractor Dynamiq Cleaning and Program Management Ltd. recently sacked its entire workforce for attempting to organise a union.
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.