IWW Manchester
@iwwmanchester.bsky.social
Official bluesky account for the Manchester branch of the IWW!
Grassroots, member led, a union for all workers! 📢
DMs Closed, contact:
🌐 iww.org.uk/manchester
📬 [email protected]
Grassroots, member led, a union for all workers! 📢
DMs Closed, contact:
🌐 iww.org.uk/manchester
📬 [email protected]
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Morning Wobblers! More to come this week but your official reminder that our next general meeting is 🚨THIS SUNDAY🚨 from 2pm til 4pm.
You can join us from:
🧑💻 Jitsi Meet
🏢 The Wobquarters (we have snax)
☎️ Telephone (it surprised me too!)
Want deets? Check out iww.org.uk/manchester
You can join us from:
🧑💻 Jitsi Meet
🏢 The Wobquarters (we have snax)
☎️ Telephone (it surprised me too!)
Want deets? Check out iww.org.uk/manchester
If only there was a bunch of books on the crisis that unfolds when the capitalist class runs out of profit to extract from the proletariat.
If you want people to spend more, pay them more.
December 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
If only there was a bunch of books on the crisis that unfolds when the capitalist class runs out of profit to extract from the proletariat.
Dear tech workers,
REST APIs aren't real. They can't hurt you. Take a nap.
REST APIs aren't real. They can't hurt you. Take a nap.
December 2, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Dear tech workers,
REST APIs aren't real. They can't hurt you. Take a nap.
REST APIs aren't real. They can't hurt you. Take a nap.
If you have a moment this morning, help put pressure on the bosses and show solidarity with our comrades in TEFL Union 👍🗿👍
We know, it's Sunday night. But spare a moment for the Learnship teachers who haven't been paid their wages for this month or last month. And send an email the bosses letting them know it's time to pay up! #solidarity
actionnetwork.org/le...
actionnetwork.org/le...
December 1, 2025 at 9:55 AM
If you have a moment this morning, help put pressure on the bosses and show solidarity with our comrades in TEFL Union 👍🗿👍
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Today is the first day of our campaign to get the Learnship teachers paid!
Action number one: email the bosses. Join us!
actionnetwork.org/letters/emai...
Action number one: email the bosses. Join us!
actionnetwork.org/letters/emai...
Email the Learnship CEOs!
Join with teachers and email the Learnship bosses! Hundreds of Learnship teachers report going unpaid for October and November, with estimates of over €500,000 in missing wages. Communication ...
actionnetwork.org
December 1, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Today is the first day of our campaign to get the Learnship teachers paid!
Action number one: email the bosses. Join us!
actionnetwork.org/letters/emai...
Action number one: email the bosses. Join us!
actionnetwork.org/letters/emai...
Morning Wobblers! More to come this week but your official reminder that our next general meeting is 🚨THIS SUNDAY🚨 from 2pm til 4pm.
You can join us from:
🧑💻 Jitsi Meet
🏢 The Wobquarters (we have snax)
☎️ Telephone (it surprised me too!)
Want deets? Check out iww.org.uk/manchester
You can join us from:
🧑💻 Jitsi Meet
🏢 The Wobquarters (we have snax)
☎️ Telephone (it surprised me too!)
Want deets? Check out iww.org.uk/manchester
December 1, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Morning Wobblers! More to come this week but your official reminder that our next general meeting is 🚨THIS SUNDAY🚨 from 2pm til 4pm.
You can join us from:
🧑💻 Jitsi Meet
🏢 The Wobquarters (we have snax)
☎️ Telephone (it surprised me too!)
Want deets? Check out iww.org.uk/manchester
You can join us from:
🧑💻 Jitsi Meet
🏢 The Wobquarters (we have snax)
☎️ Telephone (it surprised me too!)
Want deets? Check out iww.org.uk/manchester
the concept of calling up ACAS when the boss so much as breathes incorrectly
November 23, 2025 at 11:11 AM
the concept of calling up ACAS when the boss so much as breathes incorrectly
Good morning wobblers. I'm asking respectfully: GIVE THE IWW A FUCKIN GUNDAM.
Trans pride Zaku from the Gundam Assemble series of minis !
It's was a really fun mini to paint, the sculpt is pretty great, despite some simplifications made to allow the model to be push fit (the gap between the cable and the legs isn't hollowed)
It's was a really fun mini to paint, the sculpt is pretty great, despite some simplifications made to allow the model to be push fit (the gap between the cable and the legs isn't hollowed)
November 23, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Good morning wobblers. I'm asking respectfully: GIVE THE IWW A FUCKIN GUNDAM.
🚨 Good evening Wobblers! In place of a branch newsblast (I've been a busy bean!🫘) we just wanted to give FWs of Manchester IWW a heads up that the Organising Working Group is meeting tomorrow!
Help shape the direction of our branch, online or in person at our Hulme Wobquarters. Starting at 12pm!
Help shape the direction of our branch, online or in person at our Hulme Wobquarters. Starting at 12pm!
November 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
🚨 Good evening Wobblers! In place of a branch newsblast (I've been a busy bean!🫘) we just wanted to give FWs of Manchester IWW a heads up that the Organising Working Group is meeting tomorrow!
Help shape the direction of our branch, online or in person at our Hulme Wobquarters. Starting at 12pm!
Help shape the direction of our branch, online or in person at our Hulme Wobquarters. Starting at 12pm!
Reposted by IWW Manchester
We had a fantastic day, as usual, at Manchester and Salford Anarchist Bookfair yesterday. Looking forward to our last stall of the year on the weekend of 28 - 30 November at Sheffield Transformed - www.facebook.com/sheftransfor...
We'll be unveiling our newest poster specially for the event:
We'll be unveiling our newest poster specially for the event:
November 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
We had a fantastic day, as usual, at Manchester and Salford Anarchist Bookfair yesterday. Looking forward to our last stall of the year on the weekend of 28 - 30 November at Sheffield Transformed - www.facebook.com/sheftransfor...
We'll be unveiling our newest poster specially for the event:
We'll be unveiling our newest poster specially for the event:
Who remembers the Grunwick Strike?
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Should we bring back mr blockhead?
#OtD 7 Nov 1912 the @iww union's paper published the first Mr Block comic strip. The character is a man "devoid of class-consciousness" who blindly follows his bosses and believes that America is the land of opportunity. Learn more in this great book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/mr-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Should we bring back mr blockhead?
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Our #union will never tolerate maternity #discrimination.
That's why we were out in front of Escape Campus / Verbo Education in London to hold owner Raff Misceo to account.
Bad #ELT bosses everywhere - but especially Raff - we're here to hold you to account!🪧🪧
That's why we were out in front of Escape Campus / Verbo Education in London to hold owner Raff Misceo to account.
Bad #ELT bosses everywhere - but especially Raff - we're here to hold you to account!🪧🪧
November 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Our #union will never tolerate maternity #discrimination.
That's why we were out in front of Escape Campus / Verbo Education in London to hold owner Raff Misceo to account.
Bad #ELT bosses everywhere - but especially Raff - we're here to hold you to account!🪧🪧
That's why we were out in front of Escape Campus / Verbo Education in London to hold owner Raff Misceo to account.
Bad #ELT bosses everywhere - but especially Raff - we're here to hold you to account!🪧🪧
While the starbucks union is putting pressure on the bosses, take note of their "christmas cups" promotion this year.
The artificial scarcity, the social media frenzy, and then letting staff buy the stock first...
It's like a perfectly-manufactured campaign to undermine solidarity w/ the union. 🧐
The artificial scarcity, the social media frenzy, and then letting staff buy the stock first...
It's like a perfectly-manufactured campaign to undermine solidarity w/ the union. 🧐
Starbucks baristas at Disneyland’s Downtown Disney store - and across the country - are getting strike-ready unless Starbucks finalizes contracts and ends union-busting by November 13th.
It would take less than ONE DAY’S SALES to finish these contracts.
It would take less than ONE DAY’S SALES to finish these contracts.
November 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
While the starbucks union is putting pressure on the bosses, take note of their "christmas cups" promotion this year.
The artificial scarcity, the social media frenzy, and then letting staff buy the stock first...
It's like a perfectly-manufactured campaign to undermine solidarity w/ the union. 🧐
The artificial scarcity, the social media frenzy, and then letting staff buy the stock first...
It's like a perfectly-manufactured campaign to undermine solidarity w/ the union. 🧐
Okay this was actually so fun though , something about using a massive lever and shunt bits of metal around is sick af.
Hope the FWs and comrades who were down today had a lovely time chatting with us about how we can take a bit of power back from the bosses 💪
Hope the FWs and comrades who were down today had a lovely time chatting with us about how we can take a bit of power back from the bosses 💪
November 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Okay this was actually so fun though , something about using a massive lever and shunt bits of metal around is sick af.
Hope the FWs and comrades who were down today had a lovely time chatting with us about how we can take a bit of power back from the bosses 💪
Hope the FWs and comrades who were down today had a lovely time chatting with us about how we can take a bit of power back from the bosses 💪
come on down!!! free entry til 4pm! ❤️
November 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
come on down!!! free entry til 4pm! ❤️
Reposted by IWW Manchester
#OtD 7 Nov 1927 15 members of the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World (@IWW) union were arrested at the Alpine Rose restaurant in Walsenburg, Colorado. One of the restaurant employees, Aurora Sampson (pictured), was a prominent IWW organiser stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1074...
November 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
#OtD 7 Nov 1927 15 members of the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World (@IWW) union were arrested at the Alpine Rose restaurant in Walsenburg, Colorado. One of the restaurant employees, Aurora Sampson (pictured), was a prominent IWW organiser stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1074...
Reposted by IWW Manchester
New issue of Lumpen is coming.
Texts by a very awesome assortment of writers.
Edited by our one and only Amy Todd.
Cover by @junk_comix
Theme: Class and Care.
Watch this space.
Texts by a very awesome assortment of writers.
Edited by our one and only Amy Todd.
Cover by @junk_comix
Theme: Class and Care.
Watch this space.
November 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
New issue of Lumpen is coming.
Texts by a very awesome assortment of writers.
Edited by our one and only Amy Todd.
Cover by @junk_comix
Theme: Class and Care.
Watch this space.
Texts by a very awesome assortment of writers.
Edited by our one and only Amy Todd.
Cover by @junk_comix
Theme: Class and Care.
Watch this space.
Good evening, FWs! We've had an exciting couple of weeks, and it's time to share what the branch has been up to in your gracious admin's absence.
Because no matter where you doomscroll, the union isn't far behind
💪🧵💪
Because no matter where you doomscroll, the union isn't far behind
💪🧵💪
November 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Good evening, FWs! We've had an exciting couple of weeks, and it's time to share what the branch has been up to in your gracious admin's absence.
Because no matter where you doomscroll, the union isn't far behind
💪🧵💪
Because no matter where you doomscroll, the union isn't far behind
💪🧵💪
Hate to break it to her, but she's right.
The job of the state in our capitalist regimes is NOT to help any of us, it's to keep us strung along on pennies while the pounds.
Want to find out whose job it REALLY is to help us out of this mess? Come by our next branch meeting:
iww.org.uk/manchester
The job of the state in our capitalist regimes is NOT to help any of us, it's to keep us strung along on pennies while the pounds.
Want to find out whose job it REALLY is to help us out of this mess? Come by our next branch meeting:
iww.org.uk/manchester
“Don’t try to make me feel it’s my job to help you out of your problem - that’s just wrong.”
Rachel Reeves urges the public to “do their bit” ahead of a Budget widely expected to include manifesto-breaking tax rises.
@maitlis.bsky.social | @jonsopel1.bsky.social
Rachel Reeves urges the public to “do their bit” ahead of a Budget widely expected to include manifesto-breaking tax rises.
@maitlis.bsky.social | @jonsopel1.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Hate to break it to her, but she's right.
The job of the state in our capitalist regimes is NOT to help any of us, it's to keep us strung along on pennies while the pounds.
Want to find out whose job it REALLY is to help us out of this mess? Come by our next branch meeting:
iww.org.uk/manchester
The job of the state in our capitalist regimes is NOT to help any of us, it's to keep us strung along on pennies while the pounds.
Want to find out whose job it REALLY is to help us out of this mess? Come by our next branch meeting:
iww.org.uk/manchester
Goooood morning Northwestern Wobblers!
Are you out and about this Saturday? Wanna meet some fellow workers and enjoy some books, zines, and other gubbins?
The Manchester and Salford Anarchist bookfair is THIS SATURDAY, and we've got a stall!
📍 People's History Museum
⏰ 10-4pm
🗓️ Saturday 8th Nov.
Are you out and about this Saturday? Wanna meet some fellow workers and enjoy some books, zines, and other gubbins?
The Manchester and Salford Anarchist bookfair is THIS SATURDAY, and we've got a stall!
📍 People's History Museum
⏰ 10-4pm
🗓️ Saturday 8th Nov.
Manchester & Salford Anarchist Bookfair 2025 – Saturday 8th November, 10am until 4pm at People's History Museum
bookfair.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Goooood morning Northwestern Wobblers!
Are you out and about this Saturday? Wanna meet some fellow workers and enjoy some books, zines, and other gubbins?
The Manchester and Salford Anarchist bookfair is THIS SATURDAY, and we've got a stall!
📍 People's History Museum
⏰ 10-4pm
🗓️ Saturday 8th Nov.
Are you out and about this Saturday? Wanna meet some fellow workers and enjoy some books, zines, and other gubbins?
The Manchester and Salford Anarchist bookfair is THIS SATURDAY, and we've got a stall!
📍 People's History Museum
⏰ 10-4pm
🗓️ Saturday 8th Nov.
Howdy folks. Just a reminder that our branch will be hosting a stall at the Manchester Anarchist Bookfair this weekend at the Peoples History Museum!
Come on down and say hello! <3
bookfair.org.uk
Come on down and say hello! <3
bookfair.org.uk
Manchester & Salford Anarchist Bookfair 2025 – Saturday 8th November, 10am until 4pm at People's History Museum
bookfair.org.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Howdy folks. Just a reminder that our branch will be hosting a stall at the Manchester Anarchist Bookfair this weekend at the Peoples History Museum!
Come on down and say hello! <3
bookfair.org.uk
Come on down and say hello! <3
bookfair.org.uk
Reposted by IWW Manchester
What happens when you’re dismissed from your job of 19 years after attending your sister’s funeral?
Jemima, a school cleaner in London, faced exactly this. But she didn’t face it alone. Read her story here👇🏽
www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2025...
#solidarity #workersrights #justiceatwork #unionstrong
Jemima, a school cleaner in London, faced exactly this. But she didn’t face it alone. Read her story here👇🏽
www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2025...
#solidarity #workersrights #justiceatwork #unionstrong
Dismissed after attending her sister’s funeral, Jemima fought back and got her job back!
UVW
www.uvwunion.org.uk
November 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
What happens when you’re dismissed from your job of 19 years after attending your sister’s funeral?
Jemima, a school cleaner in London, faced exactly this. But she didn’t face it alone. Read her story here👇🏽
www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2025...
#solidarity #workersrights #justiceatwork #unionstrong
Jemima, a school cleaner in London, faced exactly this. But she didn’t face it alone. Read her story here👇🏽
www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2025...
#solidarity #workersrights #justiceatwork #unionstrong
Reposted by IWW Manchester
⚖️ Justice for Sheela
🪧 Protest at Escape Campus
Escape Campus pushed out Sheela after maternity leave and underpaid her for months. Now, they’ve reneged on compensating her for this discrimination. We demand justice!
🗓️ 8th Nov, 1 PM
📍 90 Great Russell St, London WC1B 3PS
🪧 Protest at Escape Campus
Escape Campus pushed out Sheela after maternity leave and underpaid her for months. Now, they’ve reneged on compensating her for this discrimination. We demand justice!
🗓️ 8th Nov, 1 PM
📍 90 Great Russell St, London WC1B 3PS
November 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
⚖️ Justice for Sheela
🪧 Protest at Escape Campus
Escape Campus pushed out Sheela after maternity leave and underpaid her for months. Now, they’ve reneged on compensating her for this discrimination. We demand justice!
🗓️ 8th Nov, 1 PM
📍 90 Great Russell St, London WC1B 3PS
🪧 Protest at Escape Campus
Escape Campus pushed out Sheela after maternity leave and underpaid her for months. Now, they’ve reneged on compensating her for this discrimination. We demand justice!
🗓️ 8th Nov, 1 PM
📍 90 Great Russell St, London WC1B 3PS
solidarity with the light-putter-upper-people, the vanguard of the anti-racist proletariat 💪😎💪
In potentially one of the greatest ironies of modern times, thanks to lighting contractors not being covered for taking down flags it may be the case that Kent's festive bulbs won't go up this year. Meaning Christmas might be inadvertently cancelled. By "patriots".
November 5, 2025 at 11:52 AM
solidarity with the light-putter-upper-people, the vanguard of the anti-racist proletariat 💪😎💪
logging into work and seeing "you have outstanding compliance training" in your email inbox
November 5, 2025 at 11:50 AM
logging into work and seeing "you have outstanding compliance training" in your email inbox