With
precarious forms of work increasingly also emerging within the core of
industrialised countries in the global economy, the issue of how to organise
migrant workers has become an ever more pressing concern. In his talk at
Nottingham University on Tuesday, 17 October, Aziz Choudry reported on related
challenges, drawing on two of his recently co-edited books, Unfree
Labour? Struggles of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada (Oakland,
CA: PM Press, 2016), together with Adrian Smith, and Just
Work? Migrant Workers’ Struggles Today (London: Pluto Press, 2015),
together with Mondli Hlatshwayo. In this blog post, I will draw out a couple of
key insights resulting from Choudry’s analysis of a large range of different
forms of migrant labour organising.
Thursday 20 October 2016
Thursday 13 October 2016
Proposals for Alternatives to Neo-liberalism: SIGTUR's Futures Commission.
As a first step, the Futures Commission has now published the booklet Challenging Corporate Capital: Creating an Alternative to Neo-liberalism. It includes proposals for labour and tax justice, a fair trade regime, a democracy-driven, public sector transformation as well as a response to the climate crisis. In this blog post, I will provide brief overviews of the contributions as well as links to the larger versions of the papers, freely available on the website of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Johannesburg/South Africa.
Wednesday 5 October 2016
Stretching to make ends meet – The struggle for a Living Wage at Nottingham University.
Inequality
in Britain is on the rise. Deteriorating employment conditions and low wages
are one of the main reasons. In this post, I will report on the LivingWage/Anti-casualisation campaign at Nottingham University, demanding a
living wage and secure employment for all employees at the university. The campaign group consists of a broad
alliance of the three trade unions on campus, Unison, Unite and UCU, together
with Nottingham Citizens as well as the Labour Students society, UoN Feminists,
Socialist Students, the Young Greens, the Left Society and the Palestinian
Society.
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