Episodes
Monday Oct 29, 2018
Lessons for everyone in Equity’s fight against low pay - w/ Charlotte Bence
Monday Oct 29, 2018
Monday Oct 29, 2018
British film, tv and theatre is a big, big success story; a source of national pride, entertaining and audiences across the world and earning millions for the UK. But why do so many performers work in such precarious conditions – and what can be done about it. In the latest Unions 21 podcast, Becky Wright and Simon Sapper talk with Charlotte Bence of Equity about the “professionally made, professionally paid” campaign targeting low pay in the sector – and discover that the organising tools used here could, should and do have a resonance across the economy, irrespective of industry. A Makes-You-Think production.
Linked podcasts are: New Deal or New Serfdom(published 18 May 2018) and our Brexit Special(published 7 September 2017)
Monday Oct 15, 2018
Civil Servants, Collective Voice and Brexit Abuse w/Amy Leversidge
Monday Oct 15, 2018
Monday Oct 15, 2018
In the NEW Unions21 #podcast, @beckyunions21 and @simonsapper talk Brexit, civil service neutrality, and political abuse @Amy_Leversidge of the FDA union. All reasons why workers need a Collective Voice at work.
Monday Oct 01, 2018
The Aussie view on UK union challenges w/ Dr Chris Wright
Monday Oct 01, 2018
Monday Oct 01, 2018
Hey - it's the NEW @Unions21 #podcast: workers on the board, employment rights from day 1, collective voice and @Works_For_Us plus @ChrisFWright of @Sydney_uni gives an Aussie perspective on labour relations. With @simonsapper & @beckyunions21
During his discussion, Chris signposts a number of “good reads”. The links are:
Gooberman, Leon, Hauptmeier, Marco and Heery, Edmund, 2018. Contemporary employer interest representation in the United Kingdom. Work, Employment and Society, 32(1), pp.114-132. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0950017017701074
Kochan, Thomas A. 2018. What Would Frances Perkins Do? Boston Review, 29 August. https://bostonreview.net/politics/thomas-kochan-what-would-frances-perkins-do
Thelen, Kathleen, 2014. Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity. Cambridge University Press. http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/political-economy/varieties-liberalization-and-new-politics-social-solidarity?format=PB
Baccaro, Lucio and Howell, Chris, 2017. Trajectories of Neoliberal Transformation: European Industrial Relations Since the 1970s. Cambridge University Press.