In October last year a SolFed initiative was launched called “Brighton Hospitality Workers” targeting café employees to give them more rights within the workplace. With a gathering of workers from most sectors, there is a true act of solidarity as everyone gets to work when one of the members is in crisis. Actions range from peaceful pickets to legal action against all corrupt businesses hoping to make an extra buck by cutting corners.

Their first meeting was in December and had a vision of talking over issues (regardless of how minor). A more detailed input of Brighton Hospitality Workers in the past can be found on one of our earlier articles.

So far they have managed to get £1000 of claims and entitled pay for their mock union members and more actions are still proceeding. With now a total of 50 members and weekly stalls, some would say that they are having enough success to start up an Unemployable Workers Union...