The Handover Issue 1

by The Handover // A bulletin by workers, students, patients and community members of St George’s Hospital, South West London.

Workers Have a Secret Weapon Against the AI Build-Out

The AI build-out depends on gas turbines and power transformers made by a handful of workers at a handful of plants in the US South. That bottleneck is a vulnerability — and a rare opportunity for labor to exercise real power over the tech giants.

Solidarity Breakfast

--- Saturday 7.30 - 9 am Presented by Annie McLoughlin and Tobia Severi The Saturday morning 3CR timeslot has a proud history of coverage of union issues and industrial disputes. Preceded by the Strikeback Show and Par Avion, the Saturday morning presenters have included trade union leaders, activists, radical intellectuals and ratbag troublemakers – sometimes all four! Solidarity Breakfast covers industrial current affairs and issues from a rank and file unionist perspective, with a focus on the broad labour movement and democratic struggle - both locally & internationally.

Backroom Bargaining: Racketeering and Rebellion in New York City’s Labor Unions – New York Labor History Association

Education

On the education sector, including english language teaching

When Workplace Organizing Gets Tough, Here’s How to Keep Going - PM Press

By Steve Early Beyond Chron March 16th, 2026 Review of Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It’s Hard., by Ellen David Friedman. (PM Press, 2026.) Six years ago, Labor Notes ran a contribution to its popular “Steward’s Corner” column by Ellen David-Friedman, a long-time labor educator and former organizer for the National Education Association […]

Why Labor Must Act: Workers, Unions, and the Defense of Democracy

When we look at the history of U-turns from democratic backsliding to democratic revival, the success rate is about fifty percent. That’s the finding that emerges from decades of research into how societies resist authoritarian consolidation—and it should unsettle us. Fifty percent is a coin toss. It means that roughly half the time democratic backsliding becomes permanent, and the institutions, rights, and freedoms people took for granted simply don’t come back.