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Report: Big Business Is Muscling in on the UK’s Nursery Racket

Sophie K Rosa

In Germany and France, around 3-4% of nurseries are private; in the UK, 84% are. All the evidence suggests that these nurseries provide worse childcare and working conditions. Is this the free market doing its thing, or the result of government negligence? Sophie K Rosa reports.

Report: Not Essential: Hundreds of Thousands of People Are Still Being Made to Go to Work

Sophie K Rosa

Workers on construction sites, in call centres, and in some retail stores are still being made to go into work as employers take advantage of unclear government guidelines and continue to put profits ahead of people. Sophie K Rosa reports.

International: Miners in Georgia Are Staging Wildcat Strikes in a Bid to Survive As Their Working Conditions Worsen

In pictures: Manganese in one of Eastern Europe's hippest new travel destinations are dying as a result of poor working conditions, entrenched by decades of neoliberal reform. Volodya Vagner reports on the workers fighting back.

Football is a Game for the Many – It’s Time to Give It Back to Them

Aaron Bastani

From fans locked out of the game they love by high ticket prices to stadium workers paid poverty wages, English football is in a state of crisis. Aaron Bastani argues it’s time for fans to take back control of their clubs from the millionaires.

Now is the Time for Worker Power in the Tech Industry

Wendy Liu

Among the upper echelons of the tech industry there is strong hostility to the idea of organised labour. But the tech sector is too important to cede control of it to capital, and lately there have been more and more reasons why tech workers need to build collective power, writes Wendy Liu.

Climate Change Is Class War – and Fighting It Is a Workers’ Struggle

Mika Minio-Paluello

The climate justice movement is weaker than it should be because workers' struggles weren't embedded within it from the get go, argues Mika Minio-Paluello.

Solidarity at Sea: Could Facebook Help Cruise Workers Fight Back?

Miranda Hall

Cruise workers experience both some of the worst working conditions and unique barriers to collective organising. Can social media networks help crew members overcome these barriers and provide a starting point for building a movement?

Why ‘Socialist’ Arguments Against Free Movement Don’t Add Up

Gwyneth Lonergan

What actual effect does tightening immigration controls have on the labour market?

#Slaveroo: Deliveroo Drivers Organising in the ‘Gig Economy’

Jamie Woodcock

Yesterday hundreds of Deliveroo turned up at the company's London HQ to convey their collective grievances regarding a new pay structure, defying the fragmentation of platform-based labour in the so-called 'gig economy'.

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

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.

6 Ways to Build a Labour Movement Fit for the 21st Century

Marek Perez

Marek Perez considers what it will it take to create an effective labour movement that takes the fight to employers, wins concessions and reverses the tide of defeat.

5 Ways Workplace Documentaries Feed Our Insecurities

Danielle Lowe

In the UK we're watching more TV than ever. In vogue is the 'workplace documentary' which gives us a sneak peak into other people's work lives. We're left with unrealistic expectations of work without drudgery and end up blaming ourselves for not making the most of the 'opportunities' we're presented with.

5 Reasons the Strike in China is Terrifying! (to Transnational Capitalism)

Ashok Kumar

As the unprecedented strikes at footwear factories in China near the two week mark, the 48,000 workers involved seem only to be escalating the activity. The demands for significant wage increases and structural change have resonated with local organizations which have called for global solidarity actions. As it all kicks off at this 'backbone shop', Ashok Kumar considers why it's not just Nike and Adidas who should be afraid.

Workplace Reappropriation: An 8-Point Guide for the Unfulfilled

The Secret Employee

Reappropriation is when an individual or group reclaims something which rightfully belongs to them without consent. Workplace reappopriation amounts to a worker or group of workers taking back the products of their labour within the workplace. In short, stealing from work. In this guide ‘The Secret Employee’ offers 8 tips on thinking it through, planning […]

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Report: Big Business Is Muscling in on the UK’s Nursery Racket

Sophie K Rosa

Report: Not Essential: Hundreds of Thousands of People Are Still Being Made to Go to Work

Sophie K Rosa

International: Miners in Georgia Are Staging Wildcat Strikes in a Bid to Survive As Their Working Conditions Worsen

Volodya Vagner

Football is a Game for the Many – It’s Time to Give It Back to Them

Aaron Bastani

Now is the Time for Worker Power in the Tech Industry

Wendy Liu

Climate Change Is Class War – and Fighting It Is a Workers’ Struggle

Mika Minio-Paluello

Why ‘Socialist’ Arguments Against Free Movement Don’t Add Up

Gwyneth Lonergan

#Slaveroo: Deliveroo Drivers Organising in the ‘Gig Economy’

Jamie Woodcock

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

Ewa Jasiewicz

6 Ways to Build a Labour Movement Fit for the 21st Century

Marek Perez

5 Ways Workplace Documentaries Feed Our Insecurities

Danielle Lowe

5 Reasons the Strike in China is Terrifying! (to Transnational Capitalism)

Ashok Kumar

Workplace Reappropriation: An 8-Point Guide for the Unfulfilled

The Secret Employee

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Report: Big Business Is Muscling in on the UK’s Nursery Racket

Sophie K Rosa

Report: Not Essential: Hundreds of Thousands of People Are Still Being Made to Go to Work

Sophie K Rosa

International: Miners in Georgia Are Staging Wildcat Strikes in a Bid to Survive As Their Working Conditions Worsen

Volodya Vagner

Football is a Game for the Many – It’s Time to Give It Back to Them

Aaron Bastani

Now is the Time for Worker Power in the Tech Industry

Wendy Liu

Climate Change Is Class War – and Fighting It Is a Workers’ Struggle

Mika Minio-Paluello

Solidarity at Sea: Could Facebook Help Cruise Workers Fight Back?

Miranda Hall

Why ‘Socialist’ Arguments Against Free Movement Don’t Add Up

Gwyneth Lonergan

#Slaveroo: Deliveroo Drivers Organising in the ‘Gig Economy’

Jamie Woodcock

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

Ewa Jasiewicz

6 Ways to Build a Labour Movement Fit for the 21st Century

Marek Perez

5 Ways Workplace Documentaries Feed Our Insecurities

Danielle Lowe

5 Reasons the Strike in China is Terrifying! (to Transnational Capitalism)

Ashok Kumar

Workplace Reappropriation: An 8-Point Guide for the Unfulfilled

The Secret Employee

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