Soldering on: report on working in a 3D-printer manufacturing plant in London
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Mar 24 2017 15:39
The first part of the article looks at the current hype around automation and post-industrialism. The second part looks at the concrete conditions in the west London factory, which largely employs female migrant workers.
Retail chain gangs: workers’ reports from the Sainsbury and Waitrose shop-floor
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Feb 7 2017 14:55
First-hand workers' reports by supermarket workers on their conditions and the scope for resistance in a time when the retail industry is in a huge state of flux, both in terms of concentration of ownership as well as technological changes such as online shopping and self-check out.
Red cap terror at the moussaka line: West London ready-meal workers' report and leaflet
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Jan 25 2017 09:27
Workplace report for WorkersWildWest no.5 and leaflet for future distribution. Main challenge will be the migrant status of workers - there have been various police raids in the plant - and the language and contract division.
Take the power back: breathing space, friendliness and solidarity at work
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Jan 8 2017 20:32
We felt like writing a basic article about workers' solidarity and daily resistance. It addresses the atmosphere we face at work, where the management regime is so rigid that even small collective steps seem like minor revolutions. The article will be published and circulated in our newspaper WorkersWildWest no.5
Fighting Heathrow expansion from within
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Dec 9 2016 15:20
Invitation to join a workers' intervention at Heathrow airport
An account of the British Film Institute strikes, 2002
Submitted by Steven. on Oct 22 2016 14:41
A short personal account of the strikes at the British Film Institute (BFI) in London in 2002.
"I barely survived on Chicago-Lake Liquors wages": an account of a campaign
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Sep 18 2016 03:49
An account by Juan Conatz of an Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) campaign at a liquor store in Minneapolis during the first half of 2013.
Wages so low you'll freak - Mike Pudd'nhead
A book by Mike Pudd'nhead about his experience working at Jimmy Johns in the Twin Cities, Minnesota and attempting to organize a union with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) from 2007-2011.
Package Handler’s Report and Analysis
Submitted by Recomposition on Aug 28 2016 23:49
In this essay, IWW organizer Coeur de Bord analyses the first year of organizing at a United Parcel Service hub in Minneapolis outside of the preexisting trade union structure. They show how even a small core of organizers can engage large numbers of workers and mobilize them around concrete demands.
Free parking - Phinneas Gage
Submitted by Recomposition on Aug 28 2016 23:24
In this piece Phinneas Gage recalls the challenges of organizing under punitive back to work legislation and the effect it had on shop floor organising. As tensions grow over a dispute about the safety of various parking arrangements around renovated facilities the shop again begins to mobilise. Then tragedy strikes and the workers are reminded that sometimes the cost of a partial victory can be as great as any defeat.
