Tag: trade unions

Long Read: Bernie 2020 and the Challenges of Big Organising
The tactics used in Bernie Sanders' 2020 election campaign have yielded some big wins and a string of losses. In this week's long read, Calum Jacobs looks at Sanders' use of so-called big organising and how it has helped - and hurt - his chances at the Democratic win.
Opinion: From Despair to Where? #McStrike Shows Us Where Labour’s Rebuilding Must Start
Alex Wood argues that Labour's declining support in former industrial areas should be understood alongside the decline of the trade union movement. Revitalising Labour, he argues, will require a labour movement rooted in post-industrial realities.
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
Today Asda workers gathered in Leeds for a national demonstration against the imposition of 'flexible' new employment conditions, which they argue will have devastating consequences for workers' lives. Craig Gent reports.
No Shortcuts: Meet UCU’s Radical New General Secretary
"The idea that we just tolerate a managed decline because we can’t expect any better has just been entirely rejected." Jo Grady, an outsider, rank-and-file candidate, has achieved an unprecedented landslide in the UCU general secretary race. Craig Gent caught up with her at the union's annual congress.
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
Since November 2018, thousands of Kurdish people across the world have joined an indefinite hunger strike to demand an end to the isolation of imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan. Elif Sarican and Iida Käyhkö lay out the reasons for supporting them.  
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
Since Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez danced her way onto the political stage, interest in plans for a ‘Green New Deal’ to move the US away from fossil fuels while tackling economic inequality has skyrocketed. If we’re to see something similar in the UK, we’re going to have to fight for it ourselves, argues 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.
Long Read: #OurUCU: The Real Culmination of the UCU’s ‘Turnaround Year’
Attempts to avert any discussion of Sally Hunt's leadership of the University and College Union at its annual congress have exposed a schism between two models of trade unionism.
Notes From Below: No Politics Without Inquiry!
On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by three editors from Notes From Below – Jessica Thorne, Callum Cant and Seth Wheeler – to discuss the history and theory of Workers' Inquiry and current strike action.
Labour’s Next General Secretary Must Be Elected
Iain McNicol's resignation immediately raises the question of his successor. McNicol's term became defined by opposition to internal democracy where it involved new members, which is why the next general secretary needs to be elected.
‘We’re talking about billions stolen from workers’: Organising in the Construction Industry
Workers in London's construction industry have just won around £250k in unpaid holiday pay following a six-week campaign by Unite members. Joe Hayns caught up with Willie Howard to talk about the state of the industry.
Climate Change Is Class War – and Fighting It Is a Workers’ Struggle
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.
Debt, Markets and Pepe: The Reactionary Face of LSE’s Student Body
Universities were once a hotbed of radical politics, with on campus strikes enjoying broad support from students. But the markestisation of higher education, and the coercive power of debt, is quickly eroding this legacy, at LSE and beyond.
Trade Unions Need to Embrace Freedom of Movement, Not Scapegoat Migrant Workers
The condition of workers is back on the agenda, but there is only one legitimate concern that we are allowed to have: migration. Low pay and bad housing are too often blamed on migrants, not bosses or landlords. How should trade unions respond?

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