The Right To Organise In Unions

is now

The Right To Unionise

See

 www.therighttounionise.com

 

So the material below is going out of date.

 

By Ed McDonnell     (see bottom of page)

Below this next short introductory text,

the work is free to download.

Employers have more power than they should

over the people who do the work for them.

That’s the majority of people. Everyone knows

it, but not how they get it.

Nor is it properly known how people have the

right to get equal to them by organizing in unions.

 

‘The Right To Organise In Unions’ shows how

they get their power, in everyday language,

using everyone’s daily experience.

And shows, in the language of business

people’s own ‘free market’ economics, how

they use the brutality of marginal utility on

fellow-citizens as if they are lifeless goods.

It shows how this power employers have over

fellow-citizens in the vital business of earning

their living is politically unacceptable.

And how, too, is employers and governments

obstructing people from organising together

in unions.

Free Downloads – click on the red .pdf  links

1.           The book  v. 2022.9   208 pages -

      The Right To Organise In Unions.pdf   

2.         A standalone short download.

Recognition.pdf  

Employers are themselves organised,

as businesses and public bodies. Their

organisation is recognised in law and,

obviously, in workplaces.

We need – are entitled to - the right

for our organisation as workers to be

recognised at work too.

3.         A single page of summary diagrams

The 'Right To Organise' Chart.pdf

4.         Buy a printed, ‘real book’ copy of

The Right To Organise , now coil-bound

for easy reading, £9.49 plus postage,

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A Super-quick Read of ‘The Right To Organise’ –

The deal you have with employers in your job

is unfair. Here is why:

Businesses are just people organized together.

So are Public Services. They act together, as

organizations, collectively, all day and every day.

That is what enables them to dominate everybody

else in society.

The majority, mostly workers, should be

encouraging each other to learn why they too

have the right to organize and act together,

collectively. Not as a right for ‘the unions’

but from their own, personal positions.

People know they’d be stronger in a union

but that doesn’t make the political case for

their entitlement to be.

This is the core of the case - Employers are

stronger than any worker not because they

can ‘get someone else from the unemployed’.

It’s because they’ve already got someone else,

in large numbers – they’ve got so many staff.

Because they’ve got so many others they don’t

desperately need any individual worker.

This, the basis of the case for the right to organize,

urgently needs making, with fellow-workers, with

people generally, with politicians and with the media

Its the biggest problem in society because

without the mass of people being organized,

it leaves work and business, the most important

public activities, to be run by business people,

who do it only in their own interests.

Its time we caught up with

the Industrial Revolution –

They are organised, We need to be.

And are entitled to be.

 

‘The Right To Organise’ is an extract from

'The System Explained' which is at

 www.thesystemexplained.com

Here, two summaries of The System Explained -

The Super Summary.pdf  v. 2022.6C

   2,500 words, in large text for phones/devices

  The Ten Minute Read.pdf

5,000 words, in large text for phones/devices.

Reviews of 'The System Explained' -

North West Labour History -

‘… far from an academic handbook on your

rights at work… has the feel of the shop floor’.

The late Tony Benn, socialist activist and politician -

‘… a great book to explain the essentials’.

 

Ed McDonnell is a retired lecturer.

He taught courses for union workplace

reps/shop stewards and has been active

in the labour movement and class politics

for fifty years, in the UK.

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Employers have more power than they should over the people who do the work for them. That’s the majority of people. Everyone knows it, but not how they get it.

Nor is it properly known how people have the right to get equal to them by organizing in unions.

 

‘The Right To Organise In Unions’ shows how they get their power, in everyday language, using everyone’s daily experience.

And shows, in the language of business people’s own ‘free market’ economics, how they use the brutality of marginal utility on fellow-citizens as if they are lifeless goods.

It shows how this power employers have over fellow-citizens in the vital business of earning their living is politically unacceptable.