How to organise workers in a call centre
Young workers in a call centre in Sydney join a union and become confident to advocate for their rights and create better conditions as a result.
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Organising – Workplace
How decades of fast food worker organising lead to “The Fight for 15”
Keith Kelleher tells the history of fastfood worker organising – complete with employer dirty tricks, ambitious organisers, and efforts to rapidly scale up. Low wage workers are now organising nationwide for a new minimum wage – The Fight for $15.
Book review of No Shortcuts: Organising for Power in the Gilded Age
Joel Dignam reviews Jane McAlevey’s No Shortcuts: Organising for Power in the Gilded Age. McAlevey outlines a critique of most contemporary union campaigning, using case studies and other analysis to argue for a deeper more rigorous approach to organising.