“Contemplation of the different ways in which lived experience workers might become unionised, and hopefully gain power in the workplace, can open up further critical thinking about a politics of mental health and how this might be advanced by progressive trade unions.”… more
Tag: strike action
Distress and dissent within and beyond healthcare
“Strikes by healthcare workers can open up the space to question an economy which creates sickness, deprives people of the care they need to heal, and punishes those it deems ‘unhealthy’.”… more
Repositioning work, rest, and resistance in the context of the Spring of Discontent
The active solidarity that is ongoing in the UK now represents the crucial coalitional and organising work of prefiguring alternative futures – right here, in the present. … more