Exhausted cleaners struggling to pay for the basics of working at the Department for Education’s (DfE) Sanctuary Buildings are asking for a living wage, equal sick pay, annual leave with civil service workers, appropriate staffing levels, and union recognition.
One day, five strikes and seven pickets — our man on the ground reports cleaners have been frightening the great and the good with demands for better pay and conditions. There is a spectre haunting outsourcing in the UK. It’s the organised rebellious workers of the United Voices of the World. From 7.30am on Thursday
Cleaners at a refugee centre near Warsaw have scored a major victory after bosses agreed to all their demands over contracts and working rights. The workers were employed at Debak refugee center through a firm called Sadar but not all of them had proper contracts and thus did not receive proper vacation, sick pay or
United Voices of the World (UVW) trade union have occupied the reception at Ministry of Justice HQ in London in solidarity with UVW cleaners striking over pay and unfair working conditions. A short video from MoJ occupation: The simultaneous cleaners’ strikes are currently taking place at the Ministry of Justice, Health Care America and The
Three decades after Criminal Justice Act took away legal duty, FOI requests reveal systemic racism across the UK ~ Lulu Smith ~ A newly-released report highlights the lack of transit provisions for Romany Gypsies, Irish Travellers and other travelling families across the UK.
This killing, this individual act of war, would mean nothing, and get no support, if it wasn’t a shot fired in a war that was already ongoing ~ Madeline Silver ~ Imagine, if you will, a thought experiment, in Minecraft, many miles away.
Campaigners and artists remain quietly active despite China’s tightening control ~ Levon Kwok ~ On 19 October, 45 pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong were sentenced to prison for subversion.
Guys like him shoot a CEO one day, and a lot of kids on another—they just hide their personal reasons behind “brutal honesty” ~ Sonia Muñoz Llort ~ The last days have been full of news about Luigi Mangione, the shooter of health insurance CEO Brian Thompson.
Keeping the flame of anarchist agitation alive and spreading throughout the city, meetings between anti-authoritarian individuals and those eager for change, and distributing books and publications—we gathered in the hall of the Acadêmicos da Orgia Samba School ~ Anarchist News Agency ~ On the walls and outside of the hall in Porto Alegre, Brazil, banners
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