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IWW gets the goods for MPH/Amazon couriers!!

IWW gets the goods for MPH/Amazon couriers!!

The London IWW branch were contacted recently by courier drivers who work for MPH England Ltd. in Kent who had their wages withheld by the agency! These drivers have been working as self-employed courier drivers at a local Amazon parcel…

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No Union Busting, No Poverty Pay! Solidarity with the UberEats 5!

On Monday 03/12/2018, five UberEats drivers at the Hanworth McDonalds in London received calls from UberEats telling them their agreements had been cancelled. The reason for this appears to be an incident the previous week when drivers in the area…

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IWW Couriers Network: Help our UberEats Driver with legal fees

This summer one of our union members, Lucy*, was involved in a traffic accident whilst out delivering for UberEats. The other driver was at fault, but he and Lucy decided to take no further action. Three months later, however, the…

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(Credit: The White Mountain School / Wikimedia Commons)

Climbing Centre Workers Organise for London Living Wage

(Photo credit: The White Mountain School / Wikimedia Commons) After years on low pay, self-organised workers at a London climbing centre have won the London Living Wage with the help of the London branch of the IWW. The climbing centre delivers…

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Statement of solidarity Stansted defendants

On March 28th, 2017, the Home Office chartered one in an ongoing series of deportation flights from Stansted Airport, intending to fly detainees to Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone. Fifteen activists put their bodies on the line to prevent this…

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A preliminary summary of an IWW organising effort, winter 2017/18, West London.

In late September 2017 the IWW London branch invited friends and comrades to take part in an organising drive in West London factories and warehouses. We chose half a dozen companies, employing between 100 and 800 mainly migrant workers where…

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The London IWW is sad to report on the passing of one of our oldest and most dedicated members, Peter Ridpath, who died on April 8th.

Born in East London in 1948, Peter was a genuine working-class militant.  He went from school into a series of factory and labouring jobs with spells of unemployment where he read voraciously, mainly on literature, history and politics. He became…

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International Workers Day 2018 – Solidarity with Workers everywhere!

The 1st of May 2018 marks the annual celebration of International Workers Day, and on this day IWW branches and members, all across Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England will be turning out in solidarity with workers of all kinds. International…

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No job losses at RBM! No union busting!

Today, IWW had a picket in front of the RBM premises in London to show solidarity with the IWW workers in Montreal in defense of the job and better working conditions. No job losses at RBM! No union busting! What…

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