2 Workplace organising

Figure 3 Organising around workplace issues can be a key area of struggle for Black leaders

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A group of workers in overalls and hard hats are gathered listening to a speaker off camera.

Figure 3 Organising around workplace issues can be a key area of struggle for Black leaders

In general, when you hear about workplace organising, it is concerned with trade union organising. This can be done by affiliating with a pre-existing trade union or by building an independent trade union from scratch. But the basic principles in both cases are largely the same. In your workplace, you may already have a recognised trade union you can become a member of. But in lots of workplaces there is no formally recognised union. In either case, ensuring that employees in the workplace are well placed to represent their interests is of the utmost importance, and this is largely a numbers game.