workers rights

This Better Work

Will AI free us from drudgery – or reduce us to robots?

Artificial intelligence already helps employers treat workers like robots – and the fear is that it could also take their jobs. Its huge potential benefits will only be shared if unions get to have their say.

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Adam Cantwell-Corn

Features

‘The pressure is driving people out’: nursery workers warn government childcare reforms will backfire

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

This Better Work

How can workers turn strikes into wins?

Josh Connor

This Better Work

Why we need industrial correspondents

Strikes are back, but the industrial reporters have pretty much vanished. I sit down with industrial correspondents, past and present, to find out about life on the beat, and why reviving this coverage matters.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Reports

‘The way the NHS is managed is breaking workers’. Bristol nurses take historic strike action

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

Reports

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

Alex King
Alex King

People's History

Avon Street Gasworks: shedding a light on Bristol’s industrial and social history

The Bristol Digital Futures Institute has published new research into Bristol Gas Company, which has had a hand in the city’s major industries, from aeroplanes to tobacco.

Dr James Watts (University of Bristol) and Lena Ferriday (University of Bristol)

Reports

Bristol Uni staff strike again to protect their pensions, pay and conditions

Despite the disruption to their degrees over the last 18 months, some students are backing their lecturers’ action even if it means more missed learning.

Eliz Mizon
Eliz Mizon

Edition 26

A space for people to come together and know their rights: the Bristol Unemployed Workers’ Centre

Unemployment has soared during the pandemic, and things are probably going to get worse. The organisers of a new project for people who have lost their jobs say they’ll offer practical support – and solidarity at a time when many are feeling ‘atomised’.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Reports

These workers on strike at British Gas are facing ‘fire and rehire’. Is this a sign of things to come?

As we speak to Bristol’s British Gas workers striking against ‘fire and rehire’ tactics, similar disputes rage across the country - is this a sign of the times?

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Reports

Amazon agency warehouse workers allege being underpaid and shifts cancelled last minute

Two major employment agencies contracted by Amazon for warehouse work accused of underpayments and zero hour contracts, breaching Amazon's own company policies.

Alon Aviram
Alon Aviram

Solutions in Bristol

Big ideas of what a good ‘new normal’ could look like after coronavirus

As part of the Cable’s solutions series, we look at some problems facing the city, and ambitious but achievable ways to address them.

Adam Cantwell-Corn Fatima Hudoon
Adam Cantwell-Corn and Fatima Hudoon
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