Tag: trade unions
Coronavirus Has Made Things Even Worse for Migrant Workers on Spain’s Fruit Farms
Nic Murray
The Burner Episode #243: Ease Off, Second Wave + Talking Teachers
James Butler asks what the government ease-off in regulations is really about – should we expect a second wave? Plus, as teachers are pressed back to work, we hear from one trade unionist about what’s really going on in schools.
Detained Migrants Are Workers. They Belong in the Trade Union Movement
Isaac Ricca-Richardson and Franck Magennis
Teachers Are Rediscovering Their Collective Power
James McAsh
The Burner Episode #236: Tick, Tick, Tick – and Technocracy
Sunak softens his economic instincts: so what does that say about what’s coming? Is organised labour really in a position of strength? Plus – what does the pandemic mean for the future of technocracy?
Tim Roache Resigned Amid Allegations of Sexual Assault, Cover up and a ‘Casting Couch’ Culture at GMB
Charlotte England
Bernie 2020 and the Challenges of Big Organising
Calum Jacobs
From Despair to Where? #McStrike Shows Us Where Labour’s Rebuilding Must Start
Alex Wood
The Debrief
James Butler is joined by James Meadway and Adrienne Buller to break down the outcome of Labour Conference: will radical policy translate to radical action?
‘Tantamount to bullying’: Asda Workers March Against ‘Flexible’ Contract Imposition
Craig Gent
No Shortcuts: Meet UCU’s Radical New General Secretary
Craig Gent
The All-Seeing Algorithm?
James Butler is joined by Novara Media’s own Craig Gent to discuss the rise of the algorithm, the new workplace under algorithmic management, and the scope and practice of workers’ resistance to new techniques of domination.
4 Reasons to Support Kurdish Hunger Strikers
Elif Sarican and Iida Käyhkö
After Work?
James Butler is joined by Will Stronge, director of the think tank Autonomy, to discuss the future of work.
The UK Needs a Green New Deal, And It Stands Within Our Grasp
Clare Hymer
Fast Food Shutdown!
Callum Cant on why it’s all kicking off everywhere (for fast food workers).
Four Day Working Week
The robots are coming for your jobs – and that’s a good thing. Eleanor Penny responds to the TUC’s call for a four day working week.