On 15 June, we hosted our first ever reps, stewards and strike leaders event. This meeting including excellent speakers and breakout rooms.

At this event we launched our network from this meeting, which you can join on this page. This network will be led by reps and stewards to develop tactics, strategies, resources and provide support to workers involved in struggle.

“With the bosses, never. With the union officers, sometimes. With the rank and file, always.”

J. T. Murphy

Chair: Jane Hardy, author nothing to lose but our chains

Speakers:

• Gary Walker, Unite shift rep at CHEP
• Khalil Lange, IWGB Sheffield branch rep
• Pat McGrath, Unite convenor at B&Q Wincanton

Below are the outputs and recordings of the meeting.

Outputs

Our action planning breakout groups had excellent discussions, around these questions, click the links to download what participants said.

1. What challenges do you face?
2. How do we keep members on side during (long) strikes/ disputes?
3. What does a win look like and how do we secure it after a period of strike action?

Download the all the breakout groups discussion as either images or PDFs here.

Recordings

Jane Hardy- Introduction to the event

Gary Walker- Lessons from 22 weeks of strike action

Khalil Lange- What it is like to be part of the longest strike ever in the gig economy

Pat McGrath-12 weeks on strike and how to win

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