The Transnational Social Strike Platform (www.transnational-strike.info) held a weekend meeting in London from Feb 10th-12th - hosted by Plan C (www.weareplanc.org), involving 40 base unions and left organisations from across Europe. Following on from previous encounters in Poznan in 2015 and Paris in 2016, the TSS has focussed on three main areas - logistics industries, care and social reproduction, and migration and mobility.
Logistics Strike: After the struggles that exploded in Deliveroo and UberEats over the summer, lots of attention has been paid to conflict in the 'gig economy'. If we continue to learn how to take 'unorganisable' working conditions and turn them into a source of power, we could generate the basis for much larger struggles. But we also need to increase our common understanding of the role the 'gig economy' plays in the wider reorganization of production. As TSS we recognise logistics as a critical site of struggle for a strike both social and transnational.
