Workers’ power is being recast as precarious workers in Africa experiment with new ways of organising in the digital age
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Since 2011, I’ve worked in more than 20 precarious workplaces in hospitality, manufacturing and logistics – and I have only seen a union once.
Most farmworkers were not even aware that the farm they worked on was Fairtrade certified.
While the scale of the strikes in both countries is historic, a scholar in employer relations notes the legislative conditions framing industrial action in the UK are much more restrictive.
France’s trade unions have managed to galvanise the largest movement in decades in opposition to pension reform. What will happen to them once the bill has been passed or abandoned?
Workers have gradually lost all powers to take industrial action when they feel conditions are unfair.
Australia’s protection, even celebration, of ‘free riders’ in industrial relations is driving union membership down to US levels.
Workers have filed the most union petitions since 2015 and the number of strikes have surged, but whether this turns into a sustained increase in membership rates is still unclear.
With everyone from rail workers to civil servants going on strike over the winter, it’s hard to see this ending well.
Poor staffing means poor care, and poor care costs taxpayers more.
From unions and ballots to picket-lines and sympathy strikes.
The Albanese government’s industrial relations reforms will help avoid protracted industrial conflict, but more is needed.
The green movement has more to thank workers in polluting industries than you might expect.
In the Copperbelt the category of ‘expatriate’ recreated a dual wage structure that still persists.
The rise and fall of UK trade union membership numbers can impact the instances and success of industrial action.
Mozambique’s trade unions have not been a strong force in society – which has left a space for others to fill.
Strikes in the British colony 100 years ago were to provide the first flourishing of militancy that would bloom into full-scale revolution in China.
Workers, particularly at the beginning of their careers, don’t know their rights in the workplace, and often fear asserting them.
A recent study highlights the precarious world of rideshare and delivery drivers during the pandemic, and their struggle to be heard as non-unionised contractors.
Employment law is all at sea.
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