Tag Archives: Organising Techniques
How Prudential staff built to a strike against offshoring
Prudential workers are about to take industrial action for the first time since 1990. The dispute centres on the company’s proposals to move 90 roles to Mumbai. How did workers overcome low membership, low confidence and management tactics to take … Continue reading
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Tagged Industrial Action, Offshoring, Organising Techniques, Redundancies, Strike
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Organising workers scattered across small shops
Large workplaces are much more likely to be unionised than smaller ones. So how do activists in Greggs bakeries and shops stay in touch with workers scattered across over 1500 workplaces? Greggs includes both bakeries and shops. The bakeries are … Continue reading
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Tagged Mobile and Remote Workers, Organising Strategies, Organising Techniques
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Set up a bank account well before you go on strike
Strikes eat money – for everything from hardship payments to members to printing of leaflets and fares to meetings and events. Luckily, strikes raise money too – as long as you ask for it. To raise money effectively, you need … Continue reading
Organising contractors and building solidarity with the core workforce
As more and more companies are looking to outsource their workforces, it is vitally important that union reps look to organise outside as well as inside their workplaces. Having always worked as a contractor we’ve generally received hostility from more … Continue reading
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Tagged Agency and Temps, Organising Strategies, Organising Techniques, Outsourcing, Union Recognition
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Mapping Your Workplace For Power On The Job
Mapping Your Workplace Workplace mapping can be used to identify health and safety hazards or the strengths and weaknesses of union membership in any workplace. Our concern here, however, is building strong workplace organisation by providing the ‘big picture’ and … Continue reading
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