North Devon IWW

Industrial Workers of the World in North Devon.
Join the union: (WISE-RA @IWWEurope + @IclCit)

[North Devon IWW @IWWNorthDevon]

Wobblies from Plymouth, N. Devon, @BristolIWW, & @IwwKernow held a picket outside a restaurant yesterday & won back £370 of unpaid wages!

Solidarity gets the goods! IWW is growing in the South West, join us & take the fight to your boss!
https://t.co/Vjnf1nNCNa

[IWW London @LondonIWW]

"The worker was paid all £2,000 she was owed there and then."

Well done @BristolIWW & @IWW_PAWA who, after a short direct action, secured 2K in unpaid wages for a Bristol care worker! #solidarity

Bad bosses beware: the @iww won't stand for #WageTheft!

https://t.co/hqFQUNJuxu

[North Devon IWW @IWWNorthDevon]

YOU 🫵 can start the process to form a union at YOUR workplace TODAY!

Don't doomscroll on your lunchbreak; flick through the organising resources on the https://t.co/IRRdYNqshd site. Then contact us for a chat for ongoing support. GET IT DONE!
#IWW #NorthDevon

[North Devon IWW @IWWNorthDevon]

@brightonlc @TeflUnion Further info here
https://t.co/TF4beufZ5G

[North Devon IWW @IWWNorthDevon]

WAGE THEFT is NEVER acceptable.
Shocked to hear about allegations of #WageTheft at Brighton Language College @brightonlc 😡

All workers should be paid for their work!
It’s time to pay up! #tefl @TeflUnion

[North Devon IWW @IWWNorthDevon]

Are you in Cymru? Time to help the work along!

[IWW Cymru @IWWCymru]

Well, it's been a while!

IWW Cymru is reforming. We've emailed a survey to all branch members.

Please check your emails and your spam folders, just in case.

Solidariaeth ✊

[North Devon IWW @IWWNorthDevon]

Is there an active union in your workplace?
If not, are YOU trying to make one? 🫵

It's EASY to start. This week MAP your workplace, understand the social networks, the geography & the work process itself. Do it at your own pace & contact us for support.
https://t.co/l1MOAkMxDV

[North Devon IWW @IWWNorthDevon]

Dead Grockle is one of our members!

Give this a watch, a good description of historical economic processes that make North Devon & the South West a poor, peripheral region.

[Dead Grockle @DeadGrockle]

📽️ 𝙉𝙀𝙒 𝙑𝙄𝘿𝙀𝙊!
'Levelling Up' won't save the South West.

Inherent features in our economic system make our Peninsula a poor, peripheral area. Without even thinking about those processes, no "solution" will be successful.

Like & share pls!

LINK: https://t.co/A5iwsI5pLB

[DOPE Magazine @DOPEmagazine_]

All Managers Are Bastards by @dai_alectic for DOPE 23 (Autumn 2023)

Illustration by @cutitoutstudio

https://t.co/NrGagOn9gj

[North Devon IWW @IWWNorthDevon]

Working in the heat? 😓 Talk to your colleagues about what can be done to make work safer. From taking additional water breaks, getting work to provide you with suncream etc. Then mob-up & demand it from your boss!

If you're in N. Devon and want to do this, get in touch.

[North Devon Council @ndevoncouncil]

☀️ Hot weather is forecast in North Devon over the next few days.

Make sure to look out for vulnerable friends, family or neighbours.

For guidance on staying safe in hot weather, please visit - https://t.co/S7WkiaDnqz

[North Devon IWW @IWWNorthDevon]

But clearly there are significant issues about the rural-regional fringes, with economically obsolete populations & the tendency towards rapid demographic ageing. Syndicalism can be very helpful for organising a grassroots defence, but it needs a much larger politcial discussion.

[North Devon IWW @IWWNorthDevon]

"By 2043, nearly a quarter of the population are predicted to be over 65."

In North Devon, the 65+ are ALREADY 25% of the population. The future is here, in a peripheral area with a poor, surplus population, with high youth flight. We need to do more to unionise care workers.

[The Autonomy Institute @Autonomy_Inst]

📰NEW: briefing paper on the 'care chasm'.

Over 70s population set to increase by more than double the rate of care workers.

https://t.co/uTMpDh9QqR

The contrast is summed up in a single plot:

[North Devon IWW @IWWNorthDevon]

Wage labour.

[Swiss @BlxckSwiss_]

What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?

[North Devon IWW @IWWNorthDevon]

A great read for a Sunday afternoon! @EdinburghIww organiser Matilda explains how fear can stop us from taking the step to organise our workplaces, and how it can inspire falsely "rational" responses!

Really good stuff, read it here 👇

https://t.co/E8W1T8qLvu

[North Devon IWW @IWWNorthDevon]

Please get in touch if you can help us out 👍

[Bristol IWW 🌍🛠️ @BristolIWW]

We are in need of volunteer translators who speak
- Bulgarian
- Romanian
- Albanian
For our work organising exploited migrant land workers around the South West.

Please message [email protected] if you would like to help.

[Bristol IWW 🌍🛠️ @BristolIWW]

We are in need of volunteer translators who speak
- Bulgarian
- Romanian
- Albanian
For our work organising exploited migrant land workers around the South West.

Please message [email protected] if you would like to help.

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

The law on flexible work is changing.

But how?

✔️ Right to request from DAY 1
✔️ Flexible working requests increase from 1 to 2 every 12 months, and
✔️ Employers must respond within 2 months instead of 3
✔️ Employers must consult employees before rejecting a request
✔️ Employee no longer has to explain what effect it would have on the organisation or how it will be dealt with.

And what will unions and employers need to do?

✅ Update policies
✅ Get familiar with the new Acas statutory code of practice
✅ Review job roles for possible flexible working options and include in job adverts
✅ Make sure flexible working is for everyone
✅ Conduct an equality impact assessment of your flexible working policy
✅ Track who has access to flexible working and their experiences of it.

The law won’t change until April 2024…

but employers need to be prepared.

[TEFL Workers' Union @TeflUnion]

Fellow @IWW branches, maybe you have a branch of the @ImpellamGroup in your town? Maybe you'd be interested in a couple hundred of these leaflets?

@NorthumbriaIWW @IWWManchester @BristolIWW @clydesideiww @IWWBrighton @IrelandIww @IWWNorthDevon @iwweastern @EdinburghIww

[ZombieLenin❎ @z0mbieLenin]

Jokes aside, turnout to oppose fash in Cornwall was probably as high or higher than London, per capita! (remember London has about 18x more people)

While in the North East some places let them march entirely unopposed

On the fash side in Cornwall, the leadership was all... /1

[North Devon IWW @IWWNorthDevon]

A democratic, strong workplace union won't appear at your workplace by magic. So why wait?

Chat with a colleague about issues they're having at work and how they could be resolved.

Start organising THIS WEEK! If you're in North Devon pop us a message & we can help.

No excuses!

[North Devon IWW @IWWNorthDevon]

One of our members had a little breakthrough in their organising today, despite being in an atomised & dispersed workplace. Well on the way to forming a workplace union!

So what are you 🫵 up to?

This week START organising a union at your 🫵 workplace. Get in touch.