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Report: P&O Ferries is the Tip of the Iceberg When It Comes to Exploitation at Sea

by Sally Howard

Racial hierarchies, sexual aggression, 75p wages: the P&O Ferries scandal is entirely in keeping with the outrageously exploitative cruise industry. Sally Howard reports.

TyskySour: Stingy Sunak Is a Danger to Your Health

As scientists continue to assess the risks of Omicron, suffering businesses and workers have been left out in the cold with only a paltry support scheme. Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial lay out why Rishi Sunak is a danger to Britain's health.

Report: Should Bosses Pay for Workers’ Travel Home Late at Night?

by Polly Smythe

A hotel worker in Glasgow was sexually assaulted walking home from a late-night shift. Now she’s fighting for late-night travel funding for staff. Polly Smythe reports.

Opinion: I Work in a Restaurant. I Didn’t Choose to Go Back on ‘Super Saturday’ – I Had To

by Billie Walker

Many hospitality workers have survived lockdown on as little as 55% of their usual take-home pay. Bar and restaurant staff didn't go back to work at the weekend because they felt safe, writes hospitality worker Billie Walker, they went back because of the immense financial pressure to do so.

‘We Want a Rent Strike Now’: the People Poised to Take on Their Landlords

by Sophie K Rosa

In the absence of government-backed rent relief or rent suspensions, people across the country are unable to pay their rent. Sophie K Rosa speaks to some of the people ready to go on rent strike.

‘It’s Not a History Lesson Anymore’: The Union Activists Taking on a London Pub Chain

by Joe Hayns

Hot on the heels of union campaigns at TGI Fridays, Wetherspoons and more, workers at London's Antic pub chain are demanding recognition and a roadmap to the London living wage. Joe Hayns interviewed two union members for Novara Media.

At Your Service? Migrant Women Workers in the UK Hospitality Sector

by Ewa Jasiewicz

Migrant women workers in the UK hospitality sector face multiple and intersecting forms of oppression, which can only be challenged by social movement workplace-only organising.

The Byron Raids Show the Complicity of an Industry Built on Migrant Labour

by Sarah Taylor

The hospitality sector is built on both migrant labour and the precise management of staff and resources. A closer look at the sector reveals the level of planning that must have gone into the Byron immigration raids.

5 Ways Hotel Workers are Leading One of the Most Important Union Struggles in the UK

by Ewa Jasiewicz

The London hotel sector is known as the 'Bermuda Triangle' of union organising. There are no collective union agreements in any of the major chains. Impossible to break in? Luckily there are over 1000 hotel workers in the capital fighting to win.