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ALL OUT! There’s a strike on! Deliveroo drivers, assisted by the IWW Couriers Network, as well as local IWW branches around the country have staged repeated wildcat strikes over the last year. The next strike is happening this Friday at…

Cymru/Wales branch of Industrial Workers of the World expresses solidarity with Imam Sis, and all the comrades engaging in a hunger strike alongside Kurdish HPD MP Leyla Güven, to end the isolationist imprisonment of Abdullah Öcalan. Solitary confinement is commonly…

We recently published a statement in solidarity with the workers taking industrial action in the Basque Country. The Industrial Worker’s of the World welcome news this evening that the Huerta de Peralta workers in the Basque Country have successfully carried…

Hot on the heels of the recent upsurge in IWW activity in other parts of the UK and Ireland, IWW members in Nottingham are holding a series of events to kick start union activity in the area! The first will…

It has been reported in the press that the Home Office have been coordinating police raids on gig economy couriers suspected of working with false documentation. In some cases, under the ‘substitution’ clause in the courier contract, account holders will…

An IWW member in Clydeside IWW who faced false allegations of gross misconduct has been reinstated with no warnings or repercussions, thanks to the timely intervention of IWW reps. Working in a busy cafe in Glasgow City Centre, the member…

Workers at the Huerta de Peralta company in the Basque Country who have been on indefinite strike since December 26th as part of an attempt to demand the full readmission of their sacked fellow workers. The Basque trade union LAB…

What a year 2018 has been for the IWW!  As we reach the end of the year in which we broke the 2000 member barrier, we wanted to spend some time reflecting on what has been a huge year for…

During the week leading up to Christmas 2018 Deliveroo took it upon themselves to sack (or ‘terminate’ in RooSpeak) hundreds of couriers, sending out identical emails alleging fraud on the part of the sacked couriers. No notice was given, and…