Archives: Joe Hayns

From 7am tomorrow (22 January), outsourced workers across two major government departments — organised through two very different unions — will strike together.

by Joe Hayns
Jan. 21, 2019

In the following interview, independent journalist and Paris resident Cole Stangler describes how politicians and the labour movement have responded to the yellow vests

by Joe Hayns, Cole Stangler
Dec. 17, 2018

An interview with two workers at London's Ivy House pub on their strike for union recognition, fixed-hour contracts and the reinstatement of sacked workers.

by Joe Hayns
Oct. 3, 2018

UVW and PCS are going to be demonstrating together on the 5th September against both the Ministry of Justice and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

by Joe Hayns
Sept. 4, 2018

Whether UVW and IWGB’s militancy coheres and spreads is now one of the more pressing and increasingly practical questions not only for them, but the wider labour movement.

by Joe Hayns
Aug. 15, 2018

This commentary discusses the necessity for struggle against the labour reforms of Emmanuel Macron, acknowledging the deepening racial divisions it will exacerbate

by Joe Hayns, Pearl Ahrens
April 11, 2018

The Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB) union has been organising, in its words, ‘some of the most vulnerable and under-represented workers in the UK’ since August 2012.

by Joe Hayns
Feb. 1, 2018