Troublemakers At Work Conference 2025
Coming this month!
Saturday 26 July 2025
Right in the centre of Manchester at Central Hall, Oldham Street, Manchester, M1 1JQ
and nearby Sasha’s Hotel at 12 Tib St, Back Piccadilly, M4 1SH.
The after-party will be at Joshua Brooks, 106 Princess Street, Manchester, M1 6NG.
The conference will bring together hundreds of workers to share experiences and learn from each other: from organising from scratch or reviving a moribund union to resisting a rotten deal or winning a strike.
If you are organising at work or struggling to overcome the barriers to doing so, this conference is for you.
Our conferences are participatory. Our point of view is of the union rank and file, meaning grassroots workers rather than those employed by unions. The unions belong to the workers – we don’t need people telling us what to think or do.
To be kept updated please sign up for updates, or better still, become a member or get your organisation to affiliate. If you’d like to volunteer to help organise the conference (you’d be very welcome!) see here for more information.
Our current leaflet is here. If you want printed copies you can request them here.
Let us know if you can leaflet any events to help build the conference. We can link you up with other people doing so, and get leaflets to you if required.
The video from our May meeting – Strikes & Solidarity – where we heard from Steeven Biset (Unite Birmingham bins) and Joel Mayfield (Sheffield refuse striker) for updates on current disputes and how you can support them, and a discussion about the state of workplace resistance after nearly a year of Labour in office, is available here: https://youtu.be/AnGytNK6zRo
Troublemakers At Work support MEGAPICKET 2, the mass picket in support of the Birmingham bin strikers on 25 July:
Troublemakers At Work is a network of rank-and-file trade unionists in Britain, launched after a conference in Manchester in July 2023. We are organised by a democratic committee, without affiliation to political parties or particular unions. We support each other in organising to win change in our workplaces and unions.
The second Troublemakers At Work Conference took place on 5 October 2024 in Manchester city centre.