We need to find a small amount of funding for our reporting on industrial action during the rest of 2024.
Our This Better Work series launched last year, producing a compelling run of articles on local strikes, the changing picture around workers’ rights, and the way unions are covered in the media – and we want to continue this important reporting strand. To do so, we need to raise £1,500 to fund our freelance reporter Adam Quarshie.
If a handful of local workers and South West union branches are willing to come together to make a donation of a few hundred pounds each, the This Better Work series can go from strength to strength in 2024.
This year, we’re planning a series of articles focusing on workplace organising and creative solutions to the cost of living crisis.
Rather than looking at trade union activity in isolation, Adam will explore collective bargaining/union organising as a way to mitigate the effects of the economic crisis and get a better deal for working people in Bristol – and beyond.
What we’re planning:
- Four to six articles showing how people from across Bristol are coping with and finding solutions to economic hardship.
- We’ll be speaking to a range of people, from union organisers and shop stewards to gig workers and delivery drivers in the gig economy, asking how they organise the challenges of their workplaces.
- What are the ways in which mutual aid groups have mobilised to support and empower their communities? We’ll speak to co-operative members, and others exploring different economic setups in their workplaces.
If you have any questions, contact eliz@thebristolcable.org. Thanks in advance!
