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The IWW comes to North Devon! The latest group of the One Big Union, taking the fight to the bosses in rural South West England.

Fight back against bogus fixed-term contracts in Bournemouth TEFL schools continues In June 2021, a Bournemounth-based English language teacher came to the IWW’s TEFL Workers’ Union concerned that they’d been on bogus fixed-term contracts during their employment at the Anglo-Continental School…

Fellow Workers, It gives me great delight to inform you that we are now members of the ICL-CIT, thus strengthening our ties with Fellow Workers and, importantly, other anarcho-syndicalist and revolutionary unions, internationally. For those of you less familiar with…

Statement on behalf of the IWW Creative Freelance Organising Committee 23rd August 2021     IWW member Jo from Glasgow was hired by The Summer House Weekend to do social media work on a regular project from 2018 until the…

Abandoned in Afghanistan: An open letter to the British Council The TEFL Workers’ Union was shocked to the learn that British Council teachers have been abandoned in Afghanistan. This is, in itself, a grave humanitarian injustice and the British Council…

Worker power needed to curb the long-term trends of de-skilling and degradation of work   Background We recently described the University of Exeter’s brazen attempt to retain all pre-recorded material (e.g. lecture recordings) in perpetuity. Such a move would cripple…

Solidarity with striking UVW and PCS Royal Park attendants From 30th July, Royal Parks attendants, dual carding with UVW & PCS, have been striking to end the racist treatment and second-class status of outsourced Royal Parks workers. 90% of outsourced…

Statement about the University of Exeter’s proposed new policy on online learning material   What’s happening Educators have been stretched to breaking point during the pandemic. They were forced to rapidly adapt to online teaching with little advance notice due to…

The IWW Education Workers’ Industrial Union would like to invite you to its first Education Workers’ Summit this August the 14th and 15th from 10:00am to 5:15pm (London time) on both days. The event will be held online, and you…