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This pamphlet offers an overview of your basic rights and workplace advice based on the long-term experience of workplace activists.

Contents - Jargon-Buster | Rights and Responsibilities | General Rights | Office Environment | Computer Equipment | What are the Risks? | RSI and ‘Musculoskeletal Disorders’ | Eye Strain and Vision | Stress | Other Risks | Organising Collective Solutions | Further information | About SolFed

Produced by Bristol Solidarity Federation and the SolFed Publicity Commission

This pamphlet offers an overview of your basic rights and workplace advice based on the long-term experience of workplace activists.

It should not be regarded as a legal document.

First printed December 2015

What we've been doing; May Day social & future events.

Our 12-page pamphlet on organising for a strike, including tips on the official procedures, ways in which opponents sometimes try and undermine things, what to do for the picket line - and we even added a general "why you should join us on the line" leaflet on the back that you can photocopy.

We ain't putting it online as we don't want bosses to be able to get hold of it too easily from online sharing around etc, but if you want one give us a shout. We'll also be leaving a few at Freedom Bookshop in Whitechapel.

For more updates and suchlike, follow our Facebook and Twitter feeds, and if you fancy getting involved you can email us at northlondonsf at riseup.net.

Since the beginning of the crisis more and more migrants are arriving in London and the UK. When people come here, they often find their first steps difficult. We want everyone to feel welcome and help them as much as possible. That’s why we have published  a new pamphlet, “London – a migrant's guide”. It is a practical introduction to life in London and the UK.

The following areas are covered in the guide:

• Using public transport in London as well as trains and coaches in the UK;
• Where to access the internet and how to get a cheap mobile phone;
• Libraries and colleges where you may get free English language classes;
• Where to buy cheap food and other stuff and where to get it for free;
• How to open a bank account;
• Accessing health services, regularly and in emergency, including the access to contraception and abortion;
• Housing including practical issues such as rent and conditions you may expect, your rights as a tenant, and a few words on homelessness and squatting;
• Work including, pay, taxes, your rights at work, and issues you may encounter such as health and safety, bullying and harassment, zero hours contracts and false self employment, etc.
• A very basic breakdown of welfare benefits available in the UK;
• A few words on the police and the law, including when and where you can get free legal advice and support;
• Where to get support if you are a victim of domestic violence or sexual assault;
• Contacts for LGBT people.

In order to cover such a wide range of subjects in a short pamphlet we had to keep it very basic. At the same time we tried to put as much information and contacts as possible.
Some of the advice will be useful for everyone, but a lot assume that the reader has the right to live and work in the UK, most likely because they are an EU citizen. We support everyone's right to live wherever they choose to, no matter what passport they hold. Unfortunately things are much more complex for migrants from outside the EU, and we neither have the expertise required nor would be able to fit it in a small pamphlet.
At the moment the guide is available in English, Polish and Spanish.

Rudolf Rocker remains one of the most important figures in the history of anarchism, from his key role organising against sweatshop labour in London in the 1900s to being the moving spirit behind the founding of the largest ever anarchist international — the IWMA in 1921.

There is a strike in higher education on Thursday 31st October. All three big unions are walking out in fight foe decent pay.
A higher education worker and member of North London SolFed wrote a lealfet explaining what the strike is about and why solidarity both from workers and students is important.

David Cameron visits Liverpool, leaves with tyres (and Joe Anderson) squealing

WILDCAT!
Local newsletter of Liverpool Solidarity Federation - Winter 2012