Tag Archives: IWW
Wobblies standing firm
IWW workers win big concessions after wildcat strike Poorly paid cleaners working at the prestigious Guildhall, home of the City of London Corporation, have won a major victory against their bosses, the sub-contractor Ocean Contract Cleaning Ltd, in an ongoing dispute over pay and working conditions.
Industrial Workers of the World
A different type of Union The Industrial Workers of the World are unlike any other Union in the UK. We are a direct action, syndicalist (or “organising”) Union that is structured along the lines of a minimal hierarchy that is subject to the principles of direct democracy from local General Members Branches and Industrial Unions. [...]
Precarious Workers United in Struggle: a perspective
This year witnessed numerous workplace struggles involving migrant workers best described as having precarious employment conditions compared to other unionised and relatively secure ‘native’ workers. The most notable of these precarious workers struggles this year were those of cleaners.
One death too many
New report exposes poor conditions at the Olympics site that led to the first fatality The death of a worker on the massive Olympics 2012 construction site in East London forms the backbone of a new and damming report by Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union members, some of whom work on the site, [...]
Support for Polish Militants
Members of Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and the Polish Anarchist Society staged a picket outside the Polish Embassy in London on 29th November in solidarity with the militant factory workers from the Cegielski plant in Poznan, Poland. A dozen or so activists hung a banner on the railings and leafleted the area in [...]
