Review: Left Horizons
“a really useful guide for new and budding trade union activists. It addresses the gap left by the official trade unions and their education departments.”
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What is the potential for rank-and-file organisation today?
The strike wave means more workers actively engaging with their unions. Many are frustrated by their leaders calling insufficient action to win, recommending rotten deals, or undermining democratic decisions. This is sparking a renewed interest in rank-and-file organisation, but there is confusion about what this means and what is possible. Ian Allinson explores the issues.
Review: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
“Allinson’s work expertly facilitates the much-needed opportunity for workers to think through how to approach their own liberation”
Review: Red Pepper
“If you’re looking to organise your workplace, Ian Allinson’s book is a vital and useful guide”
Review: Counterfire
“Workers Can Win is an introduction to trade-union organising which will be very useful for new activists”
Willie Howard, organiser at Unite the Union
“An absolute must read for anyone concerned with trade unionism, especially those in the process of trying to organise their colleagues.”
Update: redundancy selection
While it’s a bad idea to agree redundancy selection criteria, we should criticise whatever management propose.
Charlie Macnamara, head of organising, IWGB
“I’d definitely recommend reading it if you’re thinking about organising your workplace. Also useful for those with more experience too.”
Update: post-Brexit European Works Councils
The UK’s EWC legislation still applies to all companies with their corporate headquarters on UK soil that were in negotiations to establish an EWC or already had an EWC in place on 31 December 2020.
Review: Labour Briefing
Workers Can Win augments the resources produced by the Labour Research Department and trade unions and would be of great use to both seasoned workplace reps and people trying to organise for the first time.