Handover is a new rank-and-file bulletin produced by workers, students and community members at St George’s Hospital in South West London. The first issue covers a campaign for fair pay for Healthcare Assistants (HCAs), the campaign against the spread of #Palantir software in the NHS, RCN investment in Israel, and the UVW campaign at St Helier and Epsom hospital.

https://notesfrombelow.org/article/the-handover-issue-1

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The Handover Issue 1

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

Notes From Below
Green Shoots of Hope in the Labor Movement

Gardeners have a saying about newly planted perennials: “They sleep, then creep, then leap.” Last summer I pulled a lot of grass out of my yard (hard work!) and planted a garden. The new plants stayed small through the winter, gathering strength. Now suddenly my garden is teeming with new leaves. Spring has brought green shoots in the labor movement too. Here are some causes for hope: Workers using their leverage. It only took three days for strikers on the Long Island Railroad, which carries 300,000 commuters a day, to win needed raises.

Labor Notes

Truncheons and price caps are two top-down mechanisms to try to control the mob – the stick and the carrot. But they have to be understood to come after people have already refused to pay the price supermarkets demand of them.

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/05/28/shoplifting-as-climate-activism/

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Shoplifting as climate activism - Freedom News

Truncheons and voluntary price caps are only appearing now because people have refused to pay what supermarkets demand ~ Nic Beuret ~ Last year Ic…

Freedom News
Bolivia: COB Rejects Talks as Roadblocks Persist Nationwide

The COB refuses dialogue with the government while road blockades persist across six regions, demanding the lifting of arrest warrants and release of detained workers.

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United workers Union: Members first

Stick Together is a half-hour weekly show about workers rights and current affairs. Stick Together features interviews with workers, unionists, community campaigners and academics from right across Australia. In this week's episode we bring you union news from around the country and speak to early education delegate and United workers union members first delegate Nicki about the upcoming union election.

3CR Community Radio

Jane Latour’s oral history interviews with predominantly male building service employees, painters, carpenters, utility workers, maritime union members, as well as Teamsters in the construction industry.

https://newyorklaborhistory.org/resources/book-reviews/backroom-bargaining-racketeering-and-rebellion-in-new-york-citys-labor-unions/

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https://uniondemocracy.org/

Sisters in the Brotherhoods (2008)
https://www.talkinghistory.org/sisters/

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

Abahlali baseMjondolo – Umhlaba Izindlu neSithunzi Land Housing Dignity

Understaffed? There’s a strike for that

by Claire Miller // Reflections on a successful strike over mental health service funding by front line workers

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