Tag: Meeting

Towards a Workers Centre: Building Worker Power in Tower Hamlets?

An event organised by Notes from Below:

Workers Centres have proven transformational for local organising initiatives, ranging from the defence of migrants to the waging of workplace struggles. Across this three-part series of discussions and workshops, we will explore what it would mean to establish a Workers Centre at Pelican House.

Join us to hear about the experiences of worker centres internationally with Janice Fine, followed by a roundtable discussion on the local challenges and opportunities in Tower Hamlets. Worker centres are community-based organisations that provide support and resources to low-wage and immigrant workers. They often focus on campaigning for workers’ rights, providing education and training, and helping workers navigate the law and regulation about work. After the speakers, there will be a practical workshop on building a worker centre in Tower Hamlets!

23 JUNE – EVERYBODY WELCOME – NO PRIOR EXPERIENCE NECESSARY !! 

Admission is free, though a £5 donations is suggested to support programming at Pelican House!

Arrive from 6pm

Discussion begins 7pm

Social from 8:30pm

The venue has level access throughout and an accessible toilet.

Towards a Workers Centre: Fighting to Win – Organise Now, GAIL’s & Starbucks

An event organised by Notes from Below:

The international network of neighbourhood Workers Centres has proven transformational for local organising initiatives, ranging from the defence of migrants to the waging of workplace struggles. Across this three-part series of discussions and workshops, we will explore what it would mean to establish a Workers Centre at Pelican House.

Join us for a workshop to discuss the ongoing Organise Now x BFAWU campaign to unionise GAILs. The panel will feature hospitality workers, union organisers, and volunteers discussing how we can organise in non-union workplaces. We will also hear from a special guest from the Starbucks campaign in the US! Come and join the session if you work somewhere without a union, want to support a new union campaign, or just want to learn more about organising at work today.

25 JUNE – EVERYBODY WELCOME – NO PRIOR EXPERIENCE NECESSARY !! 

Admission is free, though a £5 donations is suggested to support programming at Pelican House!

Arrive from 6pm

Discussion begins 7pm

Social from 8:30pm

The venue has level access throughout and an accessible toilet.

Open Meeting on the 23rd of November

Do you want to organise in your workplace? Do you want help others organise? Do you want to form a solidarity network to fight dodgy landlords and grasping bosses? Do you want to do some grenade organising and flyer random workplaces or blocks of flats just to see what happens? Do you want to do all that along anarchist principals and not get bogged down in union bureaucracy or derailed by party political wrangling?

Well, North London Solidarity Federation wants to do those things to, and we will be holding an open meeting at London Action Resource Centre, 62 Fieldgate Street, London E1 1ES, from 2pm to 4pm, on Saturday the 23rd of November, with the aim of getting some of those projects going in London.

While we have some ideas on what we want to do, ultimately the desires of whoever shows up at the meeting will dictate what comes out of the meeting. If someone shows up with workplace they want help organising in, and everyone else wants to help, then we will do that. If everyone shows up and want to focus on building a solidarity network in a particular borough, then we will do that. So come along, bring the problems you have at work, bring your ideas, and together we can bring anarcho-syndicalism back to London.