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WCH E5: Workmates - organising with agency workers on London Underground

An interview with Andy Littlechild, a rail track charge hand and rail workers' union official, about Workmates: a fighting organisation of permanent and agency contract workers on London Underground in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

The Hobbit- The Desolation of Warners

Submitted by Reddebrek on Apr 20 2018 18:56

Port Adelaide struggles, 1928-1931

Submitted by Steven. on Sep 10 2017 17:45

Strikers congregate near the police station

Photo gallery of the strikes and riots at Port Adelaide in Australia which began in 1928 when the employers introduced new working conditions. They cut workers' break time - when workers already did 16 to 48 hour shifts, and crucially strengthened the "bull system", whereby bosses would handpick workers. This meant not only workers having to wait around for hours each day to potentially not get any work but also that union workers could be denied hiring. Union leaders rapidly called off the action but workers continued to fight for three years.

‘It’s only the beginning’: UK McDonald’s staff take historic strike action

Submitted by RosalindR on Sep 3 2017 21:15

Workers at McDonald’s stores in Cambridge (East England) and Crayford (Southern England) are mounting historic strikes on Monday morning. Organised by the BFAWU (Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union), they will be the first ever unionised strikes at a UK McDonald’s.

Spanish dockworkers prepare for strikes against job losses and casualisation

Submitted by Mark. on Mar 10 2017 00:11

Dockworkers' unions in Spain have suspended a series of one day strikes until March 17, the day after a planned parliamentary vote on opening up port employment to competition, with the threat of an end to job security and reasonable pay.