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Reports

Fighting the gig economy – of academics not students

Lots of Bristol University staff are highly educated, but casually employed. Bristol UCU is campaigning to change that.

Lorna Stephenson
Lorna Stephenson

Ideas and Action

The day gig economy workers struck back

A powerful display by precarious workers

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Thomas Katan and Adam Cantwell-Corn

Edition 41

Underpaid, over-policed and under threat: Bristol’s delivery drivers at the sharp end of government’s immigration crackdown

As a government crackdown on 'illegal working' in the gig economy intensifies, The Cable investigate how it’s affecting riders and what it takes to resist immigration raids

Adam Quarshie Sean Morrison
Adam Quarshie and Sean Morrison

Video

Watch: Deliveroo Orders Rejected – a short documentary

The gig economy is getting bigger. But some workers are getting organised. In 2018, Bristol workers joined in.

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Adam Cantwell-Corn, Melanie Vaxevanakis and The treatmentworx

This Better Work

Explained: What is Labour’s new Employment Rights Bill, and what does it mean for Bristolians?

In October Labour introduced the Employment Rights Bill, calling it the 'biggest upgrade to rights at work in a generation'. Why does it matter, where could it be better – and when will it make a difference to people's lives?

Adam Quarshie
Adam Quarshie

Area in Focus

Head and shoulders shots of three female and one male candidate in Bristol's 2024 local elections

From activists to councillors: the local election candidates taking the plunge into party politics

With a new committee system about to give councillors more power, the Cable spoke to some of the new faces hoping to take their desire for change to City Hall. 

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Fund our industrial reporting!

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...

The Bristol Cable
The Bristol Cable

Features

Image of Vix Leyton performing at the People's Comedy in Bristol, June 2023 (credit: David Griffiths)

A class act: how the People’s Comedy is shaking up the circuit

Beyond the laughs, comedy can be an unforgiving, unequal environment. An award-winning night in Bristol is trying to level the playing field.

Arvind Howarth
Arvind Howarth

Reports

Image of a masked nurse in a hospital operating room (credit: Royal College of Nursing)

As nurses vote for historic industrial action, is Bristol facing a winter of strikes? 

Nurses have voted for a national strike over pay for the first time ever, joining Bristol workers across multiple industries pushing for better pay and conditions as the UK goes from the cost of living crisis into recession.

Alex King
Alex King

Coronavirus in Bristol

Trade Unions have been called ‘dinosaurs’. Could the looming recession save them from extinction? Local union leader thinks so.

The Cable sits down with local trade union leader Nigel Costley to find out how trade unions can survive and thrive in a Covid context.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Black History Month

Watch: “Britons never, never have been slaves?”

A backtracked BBC decision earlier this year to not sing the words to Rule Britannia at the Proms kicked off the most recent debate about the song and Britain’s past and present.

Priyanka Raval
Edson Burton, Priyanka Raval and Paula Romero

City

Bristol’s working homeless crisis on the rise

The private landlord monopoly and lack of affordable housing is crippling Bristol’s gig economy workers.

Tom McElveen