Tag: migrant labour

Organised Rage: The LSE Cleaners Strike
The LSE cleaners, represented by United Voices of the World, have staged a two day strike to fight for sick pay, maternity and paternity leave, and pensions. Led by migrants and women, the strike shows the potential for grassroots, fighting trade unions to win big victories.
At Your Service? Migrant Women Workers in the UK Hospitality Sector
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.
Why ‘Socialist’ Arguments Against Free Movement Don’t Add Up
What actual effect does tightening immigration controls have on the labour market?
5 Things You Need to Know About the LSE Cleaners’ Struggle
Organising through a grassroots union, cleaners at the London School of Economics have declared a formal dispute with their employer to secure a living wage, sick pay, holidays, and maternity and paternity leave.
Mining for Red Gold
Workers in Italy's tomato industry are organising against exploitation that local government has continually failed to tackle.
The Byron Raids Show the Complicity of an Industry Built on Migrant Labour
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.
Freedom of Movement and Benefit Tourism: Paying Attention to the Background
Behind the folk devil figure of the ‘benefit tourist’ - which has become so prominent in the Brexit debate - is the politics of freedom of movement and the realities of those who are forced to be mobile to reproduce their lives.