Precarity

Precarity

• Workers from the MoJ and BEIS go on strike and take to the streets

  

  Despite the cold, picket lines outside the Ministry of Justice and Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy were vibrant and defiant, reports Shabbir Lakha

• Fast food workers fight back

  

  We speak to TGI Fridays worker Lauren Townsend about their strike and the growing international resistance of precarious workers against low pay

• Amazon's pay raise is a tactical retreat as workers fight back

  

  Corporate exploiters like the Jeff Bezos giant are feeling the heat as workers organise, but its pay announcement should be treated carefully, writes John Clarke

• Uber strike: precarious workers fight back

  

  Uber drivers organised a 24 hour strike and rallied at Uber offices against precarious working conditions and unfair pay, Shabbir Lakha reports

• Taking control is the way to end the misery of 21st century work - weekly briefing

  

  Organising in the workplace must be central to our reshaping of mainstream politics, argues Lindsey German

• We're not going to take it any more - statement from precarious staff at the University of Kent

  

  Following the UCU strike against pension cuts, precarious staff at the University of Kent release a statement demanding no pay cuts for strike action for already poorly paid staff

• Theresa’s new deal for workers? Give me a break. A paid one preferably

  

  Do the Tories really want to improve the lot of workers? Don't be silly

• If you fight you can win: victory for fractional staff at SOAS

  

  The success of the SOAS campaign will hopefully inspire other precarious workers across the sector

• Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centres

  

  Working the Phones, based on first-hand experience of work in today’s call centres, underlines the need for unionisation and politicisation, argues George Barratt

• SOAS and the fight against precarity

  

  Reporting the extent of precarity across the university sector in Britain is welcome but precarious work needs to end now, argues Carrie Benjamin

• Defend the Kinsley School cleaners

  

  The small disputes, which appear separate, are coming together to form a movement, argues says John Westmoreland

• Labour retromania: Corbyn, Benn and the 1980s

  

  Alex Snowdon welcomes Paul Mason’s latest contribution to the Corbyn debate with a few strategic caveats 

• Gig economy meets the real world: the Deliveroo strike

  

  Deliveroo workers across London are taking part in strike action, Joe Odell reports from the picket line

• The race to the bottom - the secret life of the courier

  

  As Deliveroo drivers take strike action, a cycle courier explains the reality of precarious work

• 'Management out, cleaners in!' - campaigners step up pressure at SOAS

  

  Bringing cleaners in-house at SOAS university, London, is back on the table after protesters crashed a management meeting, reports SOAS student Clare Birkett

• Don't deport Jason! SOAS activist victimised for campaigning for cleaners

  

  The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) has refused visa sponsorship to an international student because he campaigned for cleaners’ rights

• SOAS staff and students demand Justice for Cleaners

  

  SOAS Justice for Cleaners (J4C) re-launched their campaign this year with a series of successful events over the past week - demanding the cleaning staff are brought in-house

• Challenging the pay and working conditions of hourly-paid and fractional staff

  

  Staff at Queen Mary’s have launched an anticasualisation campaign demanding pay for all hours worked at London Living Wage and contract uniformity. Isabelle Leach reports