Tag: UK
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Strikes, protests, collective action: “hustling” wasn’t always how workers fought to afford living costs
Most people today are coping with the rising cost of living individually: cost cutting, looking for a better paid job, taking on “side hustles”, and so on. But not so long ago, many workers globally and in Aotearoa New Zealand approached the same problem in far more collective ways.
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“Quiet Quitting” is a new name for an old method of direct action
Jonathan Lord, University of Salford The average UK worker now carries out approximately 22 days’ worth of overtime a year. Meanwhile, inflation is at a 40-year high of 10.1%, and real pay is dropping 2.8% – the fastest decline since records began in 2001. Audio recording of article available from original source. You can listen…
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Brazil’s Ecocidal Meat Industry is Funded by Big Investment Firms
To conquer the world market, Brazil’s Big Three beef packers — JBS, Marfrig and Minerva — invited in foreign capital. Today, all three are transnationals, with the original Brazilian founders owning only minority shares in their own companies. Foreign investors, including asset management companies and pension funds, now own large stakes, which means that ordinary…
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Organizing Tenants in the Rentier Society
Against the backdrop of a deepening housing crisis, new grassroots organizations are emerging to challenge landlords and governments and to organize tenants. By Michael Byrne for roarmag.org he financial crisis of 2008 was not just a crisis of the global economy but also a crisis of the “home ownership dream.” The bursting of the debt…
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The Angry Workers’ West London Solidarity Network
Originally published in chapter 2 of Class Power on Zero-Hours from PM Press, CC BY-NC 4.0 In this area of town, where English is a second language and people are getting to grips with the bureaucracy of a new country, navigating life and work can be tricky. We should find ways to support each other…
