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TONIGHT: Precarity is the pandemic - lessons from Sheffield on building back better work
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A major new research report, Tackling labour market injustice and organising workers: The view from a Northern Heartland by Peter Thomas, Sheffield Hallam University, David Etherington Staffordshire University, Bob Jeffery, Sheffield Hallam University, Ruth Beresford, Sheffield Hallam University, David Beel, Manchester Metropolitan University, Martin Jones, Staffordshire University focused on Sheffield - the UK’s low pay capital - shows how the same factors that expose workers to harm in ‘normal’ times, has also exposed them to the worst effects of the Covid Pandemic.
The report comes about from research undertaken to support the Sheffield Needs a Pay Rise Campaign (SNAP) by researchers at Sheffield Hallam, Staffordshire and Manchester Metropolitan Universities in collaboration with Sheffield TUC.
This Zoom event will present the key findings from the research on the drivers behind low pay and precarity across different employment sectors in Sheffield. The research describes the kinds of exploitative work situations that that low pay and precarity create and the research postscript explores how the harms of pandemic map on to these existing conditions. The ways workers and unions are contesting this situation on the ground and the challenges and prospects for trade union renewal are also examined.
The research presentation will be followed by labour rights experts who speak on what lessons we can draw from the research for both political and industrial attempts to “Build Back Better” work.
Chair: Rohan Kon – Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union Organiser
Researcher: Bob Jeffery - Sheffield Hallam University and Sheffield TUC
Speakers:
Owen Espley, Senior Economic Justice Campaigner - War on Want
Carolyn Jones, Director - Institute of Employment Rights
Further speakers to be confirmed
Organised by Sheffield TUC and War on Want
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IER and Covid-19
Due to the rapid spread of the coronavirus disease and the need to keep our staff, supporters and speakers safe, IER have decided to postpone all forthcoming IER events and meetings until further notice, including both Health and safety at work after Brexit conferences in Liverpool and London, the IER Executive Committee, IER AGM and our joint event with the Campaign for Trade Union Freedom on 6th June.
IER staff will continue to work, but remotely from home. We will answer emails, produce publications and circulate our weekly News Briefs and other on-line information. However, phone calls to the office or mail sent by post will not receive immediate attention.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused and wish you all best wishes during this difficult time.
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