News
IWW Education Workers at Birmingham Uni Keep Sociology Open Rally!
On 18 November, Students and staff at the University of Birmingham protested against the University management's decision to put profit and the needs of business over those of education. And the fightback appears to be working!Scab bin lorries blockaded in Edinburgh bin dispute
IWW members and others acting in solidarity with the Council Cleansing workers successfully blockaded a WCR scab lorry in Edinburgh city centre. Edinburgh Bin Workers fight wage cuts
Edinburgh council bin workers have hit out at the biased reporting of their situation in the mass media and explained what is really at stake in the dispute which has seen rubbish piling up in Scotland's capital.Lessons from Lewisham: School occupations, grassroots power and radical education
Ted Thomas, an IWW education worker, discusses the aftermath of the Lewisham Bridge Primary School occupation
Out Now! The All-New Bread & Roses
Including the following articles
- Vestas Workers Occupy!
- IWW Construction Workers on the Olympic Construction Site
- Know your right at work info2012 Olympics construction site: H&S report reveals all
IWW members working on the Stratford City development site of the Olympic construction site have produced a report into health and safety failings by employers on the site. Malpractice is widespread, with accidents regularly not reported, insufficient signage and unprotected deep excavations as just some of the problems faced by workers. Moreover, bosses and police regularly use intimidation and harrassment to ensure that workers do not fight back.
World Blood Donor Day
It's World Blood Donor Day, an annual day around the globe to celebrate the amazing gift of life that blood donation and transfusion gives to thousands of people every day, and especially to promote volunteer blood donation (as opposed to paid donors), as this ensures the safest supply of blood. London IWW pledges to boycott oppressive 'workfare' pilot schemes
This week London IWW branch overwhelmingly decided to support a campaign by the London Coalition Against Poverty (LCAP) against the introduction of a new 'work for welfare' scheme proposed by the government. In doing so, London IWW members will refuse to comply with this new scheme, which is expected to be piloted in the London borough of Hackney over the coming year.
