SOAS Labour, Activism and Development

Check out our new video for the MSc in Labour, Social Movements and Development @SOAS soas.ac.uk/development/pr… Please get in touch if you have any questions or would like to apply @JensLerche @teorizzosoas @phaisie

Thank you for rejecting this shameless offer to scab! Solidarity is the way to a transformed sector for all! #ucuRISING

🚨 CROWDFUNDER LAUNCHED! 🚨 Workers at @SOAS are being threatened with 100% pay deductions for taking part in the national @ucu marking boycott THEY NEED YOUR SUPPORT! Help resist punitive attempts to force members out of taking action #ucuRISING ✊ gofund.me/b6dffc59

Tonight at SOAS - starts at 7 pm.

Coca-Cola Bangladesh accuses workers of "damaging Coke image" while refusing to respect fundamental trade union rights, forcing workers to protest. @CocaColaCo Bangladesh management "damages Coke's image" by denying collective bargaining rights! #Bangladesh #Coke

Attacks on the #RightToStrike are a threat to all of us. Strikes have been crucial in securing many of our basic rights — including the 5-day week, maternity leave & sick pay. We stand with workers, in the UK & everywhere, taking strike action to secure fair pay and conditions.

Map showing areas of Dhaka, Bangladesh that will go under water by 2030, overlayed with factory locations by density. Change is coming friends and we need Just Transition that prioritises workers' rights. #justtransition @XrFashionAction

After Israel kills 43 Palestinians over a weekend in Gaza, including 15 beautiful children, Palestine Action strikes back in England, shutting down the Tamworth factory of the company which packages the hardware of Israel's largest arms company, Elbit Systems.

Mick Lynch @RMTunion will be on BBC Newsnight talking about the campaign tonight at 22:30! Tweet your support with #EnoughIsEnough And sign up at wesayenough.co.uk

Enough is enough. It's time to turn anger into action. Join the campaign to fight the cost-of-living crisis. wesayenough.co.uk

Excellent initiative!

6 grassroots union activists are under house arrest in Italy. They are accused of setting up a criminal conspiracy disguised as union activity. This is how Italian state institutions are trying to repress the movement that since early 2010s has improved conditions in logistics

We proudly announce the re-launch of Asian Labour Review (ALR), an independent platform for analysis, exchange and debate around critical issues confronting workers and labour movements in Asia. For more, please visit: labourreview.org/introducing-as… labourreview.org

Tories say they held on to Johnson because they had no one to replace him. Do you know I think,for once, they were telling the truth.

Introducing Asian Labour Review (ALR) labourreview.org/introducing-as…

🚨🚨New! Report for @ILO_Research which documents ~1270 instances of labour protest by platform workers globally. Charts an important, growing, and often highly informal wave of labour organising in the platform economy. With @CERIC_Leeds

BAM! People for the win! After 18 days of massive blockades & protests, the Gov't of Ecuador & the Indigenous peoples reached an agreement to stop govt plans to increase oil , gas and mining expansion in the Amazon. Big victory for mother earth. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy

Nice to see our demands on Fox News! Make them happen by joining in at tyreextinguishers.com

It exists. At long last.

Garment workers & their trade unions have joined the massive protests in #SriLanka today, as the economic crisis deepens, denying people access to basic necessities, including food, electricity and transport.

BREAKING: after intense negotiations, @UCUSOAS & @SOASUNISON members have accepted a local pay & bonus package: 📈 8% uplift in London Weighting to £3905.82 (grades 6+) & £4185 (grades 3-5) 💷 one-off payment of £1000 🦠 additional £250 for staff on-site during pandemic closures