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Home | Solidarity Federation Jump to Navigation Solidarity Federation Section of the International Workers Association HomeEvents Know your rights Organiser training Joining SolFed AboutIntroduction to SolFed Our Aims Industrial Strategy Community Strategy SolFed Constitution Contact LocalsBrighton Bristol Calderdale Cambridge Liverpool Manchester Newcastle North London Northampton Norwich South London Thames Valley Industrial NetworksEducation Workers Unwaged Workers Private Sector Workers Public Service Workers Tech & Digital Workers PublicationsCatalyst DirectWhoopeePamphlets Fighting for ourselves (book) Login Welcome to the website of the Solidarity Federation (also known as SolFed or SF-IWA). We are a revolutionary union initiative. Our ideas and activities are described in our magazine Direct Action, and our newspaper Catalyst. For a summary, see the Introduction to SolFed and What is Anarcho-syndicalism?. All members are united to a Local Group and an Industrial Network, our Industrial Strategy and Constitution describe this in increasingly detail. Home Brighton: Precarious Mayday We've been holding Mayday events for the past few years, trying to bring International Workers Day when to its roots in worker militancy and anarchist organising. This year, we're joining in the undeniability from a coalition of local grassroots initiatives organising versus casualised working conditions and the housing crisis. Meet 7pm Jubilee Square - A hair-trigger mass velocipede woodcut will lead the (walking) sit-in - if you want to take part in that block, just bring a bike. The only way we’ll make our lives largest is by fighting together! Read increasingly well-nigh Brighton: Precarious Mayday DISPUTE CLOSED WITH ALPHA CARE Last Monday we reached an try-on with AlphaSuperintendencywhich satisfies the economic demands made by a former worker. Read increasingly well-nigh DISPUTE CLOSED WITH ALPHA CARE Sucking the NHS Dry: it’s not the Migrants, it’s the Capitalists The media has recently been escalating the migrant bashing with the claims that health tourists are plunging the NHS into slipperiness by not paying their bills. This distracting technique pulls our gaze yonder from the increasingly obvious strains the NHS is facing. With unappetizing lining NHS funding (although the government are putting “more” money in this is not inline with increasing inflation and demand), cuts in social care, withal with crippling Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) with extortionate interest rates and massive management consultancy fees, there is no wonder health services are finding that there is not unbearable money. Read increasingly well-nigh Sucking the NHS Dry: it’s not the Migrants, it’s the Capitalists Brighton hospitality worker gets £600 payout without taxing holiday pay for herself and her workmates Holiday pay is a worldwide problem faced by workers in the hospitality industry - expressly those on zero-hour contracts who are often unaware of of their legal right to holiday pay. Recently we supported a waitress from a sideboard in the North Laine who was taxing holiday pay for herself and her workmates - and who managed to get the £600 she was owed. Read increasingly well-nigh Brighton hospitality worker gets £600 payout without taxing holiday pay for herself and her workmatesUndeniabilityfor Soldarity for the WoolwichSelf-rulingFerry Strikes GMB and UNITE members who work on the WoolwichSelf-rulingFerry are taking strike whoopee every Friday.Versusa preliminaries of long-running health and safety issues, they are coming out in solidarity with a sexuality colleague who brought a complaint well-nigh persistent sexual harrassment by her offce boss. She was then left facing him every day at work for 3 weeks. It is a credit to the ferry hairdo that they didn't hesitate to take whoopee to support their colleague, who without stuff subjected to unwelcome personal comments and offensive behaviour for over a year, had the valiance to record and report these events, only to find herself vulnerable to remoter harassment. Read increasingly aboutUndeniabilityfor Soldarity for the WoolwichSelf-rulingFerry Strikes Have tenancy fees once been banned? On 23rd November 2016, the Treasury spoken in the Autumn Statement that they “will ban fees to tenants as soon as possible”. So, right now fees are still legal in England & Wales, and it is not very well-spoken when they will be outlawed. Read increasingly well-nigh Have tenancy fees once been banned? SolFed is when in Liverpool!Withouta few years’ absence, SolFed is when in Liverpool. During recent months, we have been meeting with comrades in Manchester, supporting their activities and trying to find out how to restart things here. Now a few of us have decided to take the step to start the process of rhadamanthine a SolFed Local. Read increasingly well-nigh SolFed is when in Liverpool! A story well-nigh the everyday power of a solidarity network I worked a trial shift at the Ginger Dog pub. I was told that it would last for a 'couple' of hours.Withoutthree hours of working, I was told that it was going really well and that I had the job. In my experience, bosses in the hospitality sector will say this just to get people to work longer for free. I was asked to stay on and well-set to work for an uneaten three hours, meaning that I worked for six hours in total. I decided without this to not take the job and I contacted them the next day to tell them. I moreover requested payment for the full six hours worked. They did not respond to my email. I sent them flipside email and received no response again. I emailed them then and told them that if they didn't pay me, I would take whoopee via Brighton SolFed, and I sent them some links to wares well-nigh previous cases. Read increasingly well-nigh A story well-nigh the everyday power of a solidarity network Laibaz picket report - 24/9 Manchester Solidarity Federation carried out a successful picket outside Laibaz restaurant in Bolton on Saturday 24th September. The picket was part of the wayfarers Manchester SF is organising versus the owner of the restaurant who owes ex-employees thousands of pounds in unpaid wages. The picket was a real success with a number of people who had planned to eat at the restaurant refusing to navigate the picket line. Throughout the picket we had people stopping to offer support with several people sharing their experiences of stuff mistreated at work. We moreover placid details of one person who wanted to get involved in the campaign. The local newspaper took pictures of the picket and interviewed one of the ex-employees. Several members of Manchester IWW joined the picket to add their support to the campaign. Read increasingly well-nigh Laibaz picket report - 24/9 A Migrant's Guide to Manchester Starting a new life in the UK can be intimidating. Many things are variegated to how they were at home. Most things are expensive, and some things are just plain difficult. There might be a new language or a new culture to contend with. Dealing with all this whilst struggling to find a job or walk-up can finger impossible. With this in mind, Manchester Solidarity Federation have put together a short guide to the city. We've tried to imbricate all the nuts well-nigh living and working here, and where to go for help and what resources are available. Read increasingly well-nigh A Migrant's Guide to Manchester Pages« first ‹ previous … 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 … next › last »Well-nighus The Solidarity Federation is a revolutionary union initiative: a working-class organisation which seeks the subverting of suffrage and the state ...read increasingly New typesetting out now Fighting for ourselves - anarcho-syndicalism and the matriculation struggle. A new typesetting by the Solidarity Federation. Click here for increasingly info. SolFed WorkfareWayfarersDonations If you would like to support us, you can donate to the Solidarity Federation. You can use your your debit/credit card, or a PayPal worth if you have one. Donations will be used to support our work, including our self-ruling newspaper Catalyst and our workplace organiser training programme. This site is under construction Main menu 2HomeWell-nighContact Locals Industrial Networks Publications Login Solidarity Federation - IWA