Workers Can Win - A Guide to Organising At Work

A nuts-and-bolts guide to organising your workplace

List of contents

1. Introduction

2. Why organise at work?

3. Starting out

4. Servicing, advocacy, mobilising and organising

5. Choosing and communicating about issues

6. How to organise

7. Using your rights

8. Planning action

9. Industrial and direct action

10. Management mischief

11. Dealing with your union

12. Overcoming difficulties and limitations

Conclusion

About the author

Ian Allinson has been a workplace activist since 1991, working for a private sector employer which didn’t recognise a union for most workers, and where he led a number of strikes including the first national strike in the IT industry. He served ten years on the national Executive Committees of Amicus and Unite, and was a candidate for Unite General Secretary in 2017. He is currently industrial action coordinator on the executive committee of Manchester TUC, where he was previously President. 
Colin Revolting’s cartoons have been published by New Musical Express and the Ramblers Association. Colin has twice been dismissed for organising at work – once in a large public institution and later in a small charity. He is still trying to organise at work, hence the pseudonym.

Summary

A nuts-and-bolts guide to organising your workplace

Product details

• Authors: Ian Allinson
• Assisted by: Colin Revolting (Illustration)
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9780745347813
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-4781-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Wildcat
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 21st Century, 21st Century, Political science & theory, Trade Unions, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social discrimination & inequality, Sociology: work & labour, Political science and theory, Economics of industrial organisation, Industry & industrial studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, Sociology: work and labour, Industry and industrial studies, Economics of industrial organization, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / Unions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice, Social discrimination and social justice, Industrial relations & trade unions law, Industrial relations and trade unions law