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.
Brighton SolFed in dispute with Cafe Plenty over outstanding pay
Submitted by Ed on Dec 16 2017 00:44
Brighton SolFed is making public a dispute with a cafe who are unwilling to settle outstanding pay of over £4K. The former worker, who stopped work at the establishment in early June has been asking to be paid ever since.
Brighton Solidarity Federation opens dispute with G4Lets
Submitted by Ed on Nov 14 2017 15:55
Brighton Solidarity Federation has started a dispute with the lettings agency G4Lets on Hythe Road in Fiveways. Two sets of tenants have been organising with SolFed regarding a number of issues with their tenancies. The first group of tenants had to live in mice-infested, unsafe accommodation for a year, and then had £2000 illegitimately deducted from their deposit. The second group of tenants have had £1080 deducted from their deposit for similarly dubious reasons.
Brighton SolFed Housing Union round-up: three months, three victories
Submitted by Ed on Nov 10 2017 18:57
Three groups of tenants organising with Brighton Solidarity Federation Housing Union over the past three months have each secured victories in their disputes. Working with our Housing Union, these tenants used the everyday tactics of solidarity and mutual support to take direct action – to win back stolen cash and to improve their conditions.
Lettings agency makes threats and keeps deposit of tenant with young children: Brighton SolFed opens dispute
Submitted by Ed on Sep 28 2017 09:18
Hot on the heels of their recent victory against MTM lettings, Brighton Solidarity Federation are opening a dispute with Spencer & Leigh lettings agency after they withheld £510 from a tenant with young children.
Landlady makes threats instead of owning up: SolFed campaign intensifies
Submitted by Ed on Sep 12 2017 18:12
A Brighton landlady has hit out at a group of tenants demanding compensation for having to live in damp infested accommodation, causing their supporters to escalate their campaign for justice.
Brighton Solidarity Federation opens a dispute with MTM lettings agency
Submitted by Ed on Sep 7 2017 15:01
Brighton Solidarity Federation has started a dispute with MTM lettings on the Lewes road. A group of tenants have been organising with SolFed after they were rented a house with serious damp and mould problems, infestations, and poor furniture that the landlady had promised to replace.
Restaurant worker wins big pay-out in wage theft dispute
Submitted by Joseph Kay on Aug 22 2017 09:24
A worker in Brighton, UK has won over £20,000 in unpaid holiday and wages in a dispute with a restaurant.
School Dinner Discipline: a little bit of solidarity can go a long way
Submitted by Ed on Mar 2 2017 12:01
A dinner lady came to Brighton SolFed when there was nowhere left to go. At the time, they faced a disciplinary hearing for gross misconduct in three days. They had not been paying union membership dues, so they were refused mainstream union representation.
Tenant vs lettings agency: "We need to come together to improve conditions for everybody"
In summer of 2016, Brighton SolFed was organising with a Leaders tenant who was being evicted from their flat. Following a series of pickets, that dispute ended after an offer of compensation to the tenant. Here, another Leaders tenant from a nearby town, who contacted Brighton SolFed during the summer dispute, tells her story about how she has been mistreated by Leaders, particularly about how they have neglected the property and tried to evict her and her partner by bullying them.
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