
November 2020
A written story submitted by Rose who works for a major insurer on the East Coast. I’m in my mid-thirties and work in a call
A written story submitted by Rose who works for a major insurer on the East Coast. I’m in my mid-thirties and work in a call
This is an account of a professional actor/musician who became a greengrocer and of a surgeon who became an activist and cofounder of a charity.
Patrick O’Hare is an anthropologist who studies recycling economies in South America. We are publishing Patrick’s translation of a transcript from an interview he conducted
This story comes from a trade union organiser based in Glasgow and captures the huge protests in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, that took place
Sam Sheppard works as a food courier for Deliveroo and Uber Eats in Glasgow and this is his story. It was one of those glorious
Michelle Opit recently completed the Workers’ Stories Collage Workshop. She works in operations with Big Noise Govanhill and part of her role is to keep
Jon lives in Skye and writes about the impact of the pandemic on his job as a tour guide and on the Scottish travel industry.
R Forbes works as a courier in Edinburgh, where the Workers’ Observatory supports gig workers to monitor and organise their work. I began working as
Workin’ durin’ lockdown was not stress free, but it was good to have a purpose and a reason to go out. At the same time, it was good to also have the time to enjoy the sunniest spring ever.
So my contribution to The Workers Story Project has taken a sharp turn from writing about my COVID-19 experience as a lay trade union official representing firefighters to now using this platform to highlight the accounts and activism of sisters in our movement, which at times, moved me to tears.
Every day I walk round the park and circle the loch several times, returning to where I started and going round again, and again. Rather symbolic of lockdown, every day the same as the day before like for the guy in Groundhog Day.
In the dark, children’s voices
Guisers!
Too scared to visit Covid houses
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