Marxist. Trade Unionist. Socialist-feminist. Author. Poet. Speaker. Tutor. RMT ex-Exec. Workers' Liberty. Autie. Bi. PUFC fan.
Workers’ self-defence starts with getting unionised at work. This section includes material on the trade union struggles and issues I am involved in and/or urge you to support!
Bring out the braziers on Ramsay Street, close down the kitchen and turn up the heat No more exploitation of the workers’ labours – the staff are going on strike in Neighbours! The ranks of the workers’ movement swell as … Read More
Published in Women’s Fightback 26, Autumn/Winter 2021 Kelly Lindsey, former head coach of the Afghanistan women’s football team – and before that, US international player – spoke to supporters before Lewes FC women’s home friendly against West Ham … Read More
Published in RMT News, July/August 2021 RMT members have helped to win justice for Osime Brown, a young, black, autistic, learning-disabled man. The union saw this as an issue that deserved our support and solidarity. Janine Booth, Secretary of RMT’s Disabled Members’ … Read More
Janine speaks on why and how we should fight anti-strike and anti-union laws, as part of the launch week for Empower the Unions, a new initiative from Earth Strike UK, a group of anti-capitalist activists in the climate movement. The … Read More
First published as a blog post for the TUC’s ‘Stronger Unions’ on 23 November 2016: Most autistic people want to work, but often encounter difficulties in the workplace which employers can address better. Author and workplace trade union representative … Read More
PCS members who have completed the Stage 1 course will be invited to join this course, tutored by Janine.
If you are a PCS member and would like to attend this two-day course tutored by Janine, please contact your branch organiser or training officer.
A two-day course for PCS union reps and activists, taught by Janine.
Published in Solidarity 589, 21 April 2021. Europe’s richest football clubs have announced an exclusive Super League, but have met with near-unanimous opposition. This is a move by Europe’s richest clubs, not its best clubs. One of England’s ‘Big Six’ … Read More
Published in Solidarity 588, 14 April 2021 Long before ‘Black Friday’ became the name for the first day of the Christmas shopping season, it was the name that the labour movement gave to the day on which trade union leaders … Read More
The week-long Disability in the Workplace course goes online, every Monday for five weeks!
Janine is tutoring this week-long course for RMT members at the union’s National Education Centre in Doncaster.
This is what Janine said in the debate about Reasonable Adjustments for Disabled Workers at the TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference on 11 March 2021. I’ll start with what might be a provocative statement: Reasonable adjustments for individual workers … Read More
This is the text of my contribution to the debate at TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference on 10 March 2019. Hi. I’m Janine Booth, representing RMT. Our members work in the rail, road transport, shipping and offshore energy industries. I want to … Read More
Published by the Free Our Unions campaign Britain’s anti-trade-union legislation makes it harder for unions to fight for the rights of disabled workers and disabled people more generally. How? Limiting issues on which unions may lawfully take action Trade unions … Read More
Free. Click here to register. Ealing Trades Union Council is delighted to once again present a celebration of International Womens Day on March 8th. It’s even more relevant than usual – women have been carrying the brunt of the crisis … Read More
Janine rants about Poets versus Covid and Cuts. The annual ‘Heart Unions’ event this years sees a focus on the perilous state of the arts during the COVID19 pandemic. For ‘COVID19 and the Arts’ we are joined by: … Read More
It’s Thursday evening, eight o’clock, no sound No passing cars or footsteps on the ground No pots or pans or cheering to be found As nobody is clapping this time round When this began, we clapped them off to war … Read More
After Come to Milton Keynes by Paul Weller Me and the rest of the company grunts, we know for sure that we are being used as fodder for the god of profit, doff the cap to ownership, it seems … Read More
China jails citizen journalist for Wuhan reports Four years in jail for citizen reporter Who spread the news from virus-struck Wuhan Her mother cries in court to lose her daughter She showed the world the sickness, did Zhang Zhan So … Read More