workplace activity

Workers' accounts and experiences of organising in their workplaces.

May Hai factory staff is in working hours. © ILO

May Hai factory staff is in working hours. © ILO

The gang system in Coventry - Reg Wright

Analysis of the workplace "gang system" as it functions in Coventry, and its collectivist nature.

Pushing Dust: Work Report from Greenford Street Cleansing Gangs

We look at the company structure, the work-mates, the re-structuring and how the trade union engages…

Workers on the Barbican site, 1965

Building the Barbican 1962-1982: taking the industry out of the dark ages

Fantastic pamphlet on the workers' struggles during the construction of the brutalist masterpiece…

Welcome to the jungle: working and struggling in Amazon warehouses

Article on structure, working conditions and disputes at Amazon in Germany and Poland - reports and…

Amazon in India: The e-commerce jungle and workers' reality

The following article is the first part of a series about workers' conditions and disputes at Amazon…

Experiences with trade unions in West London

Experiences with Unite, GMB, USDAW at, amongst others, Sainsbury's distribution centre, Waitrose warehouse, Bakkavor food factory, Alpha LSG…

Women members of the IWW lead a march in Manhattan

Letter on the IWW Domestic Workers Union, 1917 - Jane Street

Fascinating letter from the secretary of the domestic workers' section of the Industrial Workers of…

Messing with the drivers! Situation at Wincanton/Sainsbury's Transport Office in Greenford, West London

Report about working in the transport office of a Sainsbury's distribution centre…

Seeing past the luxury label part II: H&M in Hamburg, Germany and their suppliers in Delhi, India

Interesting look at the working conditions and workers' resistance in H&M…

Former PCS rep with a placard reading 'why won't PCS support victimised reps?'

Fighting for #Justice4JohnPearson

Next week, the PCS union holds its annual delegate conference in Brighton. One of the most important issues on the agenda is that of whether the…

Human guinea pigs "band together" and win a pay hike

Two accounts by human lab rats who undertook successful strike action for better pay.

The Civil Service Rank & File – a belated post-mortem

An analysis of the Civil Service Rank & File Network, which emerged in late 2012, and its impact…