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As members of the IWW, committed to industrial, not craft, unionism, motivated by syndicalist principles, we are active in UCU as dual-carders seeking workers’ control of industry as we aim to build a new society in the shell of the…

What a year 2018 has been for the IWW!  As we reach the end of the year in which we broke the 2000 member barrier, we wanted to spend some time reflecting on what has been a huge year for…

Steve Hanson sends a postcard from the frozen caste system of precarious academic labour in the UK I have slowly woken up to the fact that I am in a caste, not a class. I work as a ‘casual’ academic.…

The IWW often receives enquiries asking us what a ‘Dual Carder’ is and what they do? Dual-Carding is a long standing phenomenon within the IWW with a large percentage of our members coming under this classification. During the recent UCU…

The IWW’s Education Workers Industrial Union stands in solidarity with the rank and file UCU members now in their fourth week of strike action against devastating pension cuts to academic and academic-related staff in pre-92 UK universities. After a long…

Starting on Thursday the 22nd February members of the University and College Union (UCU) will begin an escalating 14-day strike during February and March against 61 universities across the UK in protest at the decision by UUK, the employers’ federation,…

DUBLIN, December 1st, 2017 – The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) supports English Language Teachers in Ireland as they seek recognition from the Dáil Education Committee and demand collective negotiation in their workplaces, fair pay for their whole day’s…

On Saturday 26th August 2017 organisers from across the IWW, friends and fellow travellers met to discuss the initiation of a new campaign around education work in the UK. The following analysis, aims and priority areas were agreed by that…