Workers Stories Project

Workers’ Stories is a project committed to recording worker experiences in Scotland. For more info visit our website.

[Workers Stories Project @WorkersStories]

Three years ago we were in the midst of the initial phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. Workers' Stories originally published our first story on 5 July 2020: Thoughts of A Postie During A Global Pandemic by Marion Johnstone, a postal worker from Ayrshire. https://t.co/ESgHp3q9AC

[Glasgow Trades Council @GlasgowTUC]

Our final #GlasgowMayDay event is almost here! Our exhibition kicks off with a launch event this Fri 12th May with exhibition open over Sat/Sun. 'Do We Sit Back, or Do We Fight Back' is a survey of the 2022/2023 strike wave in Glasgow. Register for launch. https://t.co/G6ExDh6Pwj

[Glasgow Trades Council @GlasgowTUC]

Our Glasgow May Programme 2023 is live! 📢We have a great line up of events this year from walking tours, creative workshops, theatrical productions, a football tournament, exhibition & so much more! Get involved!✊🏽Visit link to register- https://t.co/A3NFKupVgT #GlasgowMayDay

[Workers Stories Project @WorkersStories]

News today is dominated by lockdown in Downing Street, but we published over 50 stories from workplaces across Scotland about how hospital workers, supermarket staff, lorry drivers and teachers and administrators lived through the pandemic. Read them here. https://t.co/DPSNCZ4uBM

[Workers Stories Project @WorkersStories]

If you missed project contributer Tommy Lusk’s new film ‘Bellsmyre Caledonia’ the other night you can catch it again at @GlasgowShort Film Festival in March! Congrats Tommy ��

[TommyL @HowatshawsTom]

@WorkersStories @CWUnews @Living_Rent @leedsanimation @CCA_Glasgow @ACORNunion @Glasgow_LR @LabourMercedes @GalGael @UmaNadaRajah3 @00arika00 @RozFoyer @cwu_scotland Thank you so much for your support. The film is on at CCA again next month: https://t.co/frAp0bit7n "The Scottish Short Film Award at GSFF. Audiences will have the opportunity to vote for their favourite to win the Audience Award." inclds Q&A

[Dr Valerie Wright @VAWright10]

Tommy's original post for @WorkersStories - https://t.co/JIwcSnWafO

[Workers Stories Project @WorkersStories]

@VAWright10 @HowatshawsTom Thanks for the support Valerie!

[Dr Valerie Wright @VAWright10]

Brilliant evening seeing all of these films and remembering Cathy McCormack's important contribution to housing activism in Glasgow and internationally. Loved @HowatshawsTom's film Bellsmyre Caledonia - we all need to connect the dots and figure out what's going on!

[Workers Stories Project @WorkersStories]

Brilliant @CWUnews + @Living_Rent fundraiser screening last night, in memory of Cathy McCormack. Good to see project contributor @HowatshawsTom ‘s new film Bellsmyre Caledonia, a screenplay adapted from his original workers’ story in 2021.

Up the workers, up the tenants!

[CCA @CCA_Glasgow]

✊ How can art and visual culture intervene in the struggle for housing justice?

@Living_Rent and @WorkersStories present Six Short Films About Housing, held in memory of the late veteran housing activist Cathy McCormack.

📅 Wed 22 Feb
🎟 Sliding scale

https://t.co/DEg3YCz3yh

[Workers Stories Project @WorkersStories]

https://t.co/r7zH4kSaYi you can read Tommy's original story here:

[Workers Stories Project @WorkersStories]

Great night of radical film and fundraising for @Living_Rent + @CWUnews strikers in Glasgow next month, in memory of Cathy McCormack

@HowatshawsTom new's film w/ @jackguariento will also premiere, adapted from his Workers' Stories Submission!

Book here: https://t.co/kptBKaj29T

[TommyL @HowatshawsTom]

@WorkersStories @00arika00 The film was shown at The Biscuit Tin short film Festival last night along with some other interesting short films. They're all available to watch online today and tomorrow. Ours is called "Bellsmyre Caledonia" https://t.co/VTLzjEjBa5

[TommyL @HowatshawsTom]

Prequel: A wrote the piece for @WorkersStories after much help and encouragement from @Living_Rent Writers Group, Kate Hastie @WEAScotland & the Unison writing group funded by @UNISONScotLearn

[TommyL @HowatshawsTom]

A wrote a piece for @WorkersStories that a adapted to perform at their event at @galgael that Jack Guariento saw, liked and made it into a short film that was shown last night at a short film festival that is available to watch online https://t.co/IohP9MZL7U

[Workers Stories Project @WorkersStories]

Did you attend our exhibition at @GalGael in Nov '21 or our MayDay '22 exhibition at @newglasgowsoc ? Did you take any pictures? As we archive the project with @nlsarchives we are collecting documentation of these events!
📸Please send any pics to: [email protected]

[Workers Stories Project @WorkersStories]

https://t.co/KpkApXEoa8

[Workers Stories Project @WorkersStories]

'Strength and power could be felt in the stuttering voices and trembling hands as poetry, prose, essays and diaries were read to the room.' In November we held our first exhibition @GalGael. We've published a reflection with pictures and audience comments. https://t.co/AqZTmxvmx9

[Workers Stories Project @WorkersStories]

It’s one year since over 100 people gathered to hear workers tell their lockdown stories @GalGael. We heard poems, prose and songs from cleaners, super market workers and college administrators. There was power in both the individual creativity and in the togetherness we felt.

[Workers Stories Project @WorkersStories]

We’re delighted to hear that project contributor @HowatshawsTom has adapted his lockdown story into a short film w/ Govanhill filmmaker Jack Guariento and @00arika00

Watch this space for news of screenings, and read Tommy’s original submission here👇

https://t.co/r7zH4kSaYi

[Workers Stories Project @WorkersStories]

We’re delighted to see @Nathan_Unite sharing his powerful story of driving a truck during lockdown in 2020. You can read it and watch a video Nathan recorded here. https://t.co/e036zZTXox

[Roz Foyer @RozFoyer]

Great and really moving contribution @UniteScotland conf from @Nathan_Unite reading the piece he wrote for the @WorkersStories project reflecting on the pandemic “I’m a truck driver…” 👌