Tag: precarity

A Unison member reflects on conversations on the picket-lines that offered a different vision about how universities could and should be run.

The end of the first week of UCU strike action coincided with the latest climate strike on Friday 29 November. rs21 members report on pickets from around the country.

Eight days of strikes got off to a confident start across sixty Higher Education institutions today.

A former agency worker recounts their experiences in the hospitality industry.

Colin Revolting reviews director Ken Loach's latest film, which centres on the family of two workers in the gig economy

The closure of the Scunthorpe steel-works is likely to spell disaster for the community. Following our earlier analysis of the state of the British steel industry, here we consider the social costs of cynical mismanagement.

A recent demonstration of precarious workers made Liz Forster see her own experience as a zero-hour worker differently.

'Fractionals' are hourly paid part-time teaching staff in universities who are paid a 'fraction' of a full-time salary. An increasing proportion of academics are...

Mikhil Karnik, an immigration lawyer in Manchester, explains how changes in immigration law are driving migrant workers towards greater precarity One measure of the distinction made...

Hospitality worker and activist Nilüfer Erdem reports: Rank and file activists from the fight for $15 an hour campaign in the US came to London...