Midwives’ working conditions are mothers’ birthing conditions Download the Midwives Leaflet Following on from their first ever strike last month, the Royal College of Midwives have decided to strike again on Monday 24 November. Despite well-attended picket lines and broad public support on 12 October, the government is continuing to ignore demands for a […]
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Social Reproduction, Strike, Work
Another strike was called. Another TUC demo in London. And around us we heard the same collective sighs as when an alarm rings for work. The call out came with little vigour, the heeding even less so. 3 days were originally called, and this resulted in 2. We supported the strike but with a similar
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Strike, Work
Meeting at Charing Cross Station 11am to then join the TUC demonstration Provoked by Parliament’s steadfast commitment to a Plan A of Austerity, the rusty machinery of the Trades Union Congress has provided the customary opposition in the form of its Plan B: marching for the alternative, marching for jobs, growth and justice, and now
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Work
This weekend, during Monday and Wednesday strike days, and up to and including the TUC demo on Saturday 18th we are asking people to STRIKE UP conversation with other people about what it means to be on strike. these could be one line questions or a whole dialogue. Ask on the school runs or the
Where would they be without us? Midwives on Strike to Stay in the Picture. Download the Midwife Strike Leaflet here Midwives’ working conditions are mothers’ birthing conditions The Royal College of Midwives have voted to take strike action for the first time ever in their 133 year history. In real terms if pay had increased
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Social Reproduction, Work
A co-ordinated series of public meeting by Plan C in the week beginning 29th September. We Need To Talk About Work: a series of public discussions about the crisis of the work society and strategies for moving beyond it. Plan C is calling for two things in October: * Mass support, solidarity actions and participation
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Work
On June 3rd, Plan C MCR hosted the second in our Conversations On The Future, entitled ‘Do You Remember The Future?’ Zero-hour contracts, collapsing real wages, multiple jobs, and unpaid internships – most of us are experiencing a crisis in the relationship between ‘work’ and the wage. But is fighting for ‘more work’ the answer
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Work
On Wednesday afternoon the industrious silence of the British Library Reading Rooms was interrupted by the familiar scale and pregnant pause of a customer service announcement. The disembodied voice offered an apologetic explanation for today’s one-day strike action. Adopting the rhetoric of the doctor’s surgery and railway waiting room, the announcer reassured the “service users”
Zero-hour contracts, collapsing real wages, multiple jobs, and unpaid internships – most of us are experiencing a crisis in the relationship between ‘work’ and the wage. But is fighting for ‘more work’ the answer to our problems, or must we question the very nature of work? Why does the increasing automation of work currently present
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Work
Today’s public secret is that everyone is anxious. Anxiety has spread from its previous localised locations (such as sexuality) to the whole of the social field. All forms of intensity, self-expression, emotional connection, immediacy, and enjoyment are now laced with anxiety. It has become the linchpin of subordination.
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Mental Health, Social Reproduction, Work
. Plan C’s last national meeting brought to light some creative and culture-critical offerings intended to be internal. This post, by popular demand, publicly platforms the mix CD and accompanying short essay titled ‘Women & Capital 1939-2013’, which is the creation of Jess in Manchester. This is mainly an exercise in personal obsessiveness but the
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Feminism, Social Reproduction, Work
The night between the 28th and 29th of November the logistics workers of the main TNT warehouses in Italy, organized by SiCobas and AdlCobas, went on strike for two hours,to send a signal to the executives of the multinational and to its corporate restructuring plan that includes substantial cuts to the workforce. A signal aiming at
