Worth our SALT

Sat 28 March, 9:30am – 5pm

Solidarity Across Land Trades (SALT) is facilitating a series of political education and training workshops in different locations across the UK to give land workers the knowledge, support and community, and skills to organise in your workplaces.

The workshop aims to improve your awareness of your rights, build power and solidarity, and help you see yourself as part of a growing working class movement that cuts across different land-based trades.

Who is it for?

This is a space for workers in land-related trades (including self-employed or unemployed workers in conventional agriculture, agroecology, gardening, forestry, horticulture, conservation etc) without hiring and firing power.

The workshop is open to SALT members and non-members. You do not have to have any prior experience of organising or knowledge of political movements to participate.

What to expect on the day

• 09:30 – arrive – refreshments and meet fellow workers
• 10:00 – welcome + introductions – playful exercises to get to know each other
• 11:00 – the cost of food? – examining the links between low wages and cheap food, capitalism, and colonialism
• 14:00 – know your rights – the laws, rights, and regulations that protect you at work
• 15:15 – how to organise in your workplace – scenarios to put these rights into perspective and learn to organise together
• 17:00 – finish

You will learn to

• Connect across isolated workplaces
• Analyse the links between cheap labour and cheap food, capitalism, and colonialism
• Identify and challenge abuses of your rights
• Have difficult conversations with your co-workers and employer(s)
• Organise in your workplaces
• Support and care for marginalised workers
• Shift narratives
• Build power and solidarity through SALT

How to book

Book your place by completing an online form.

About SALT

Solidarity Across Land Trades (SALT) is a grassroots trade union made up of workers across all land related trades. We are organising to fight for fairer working conditions, solidarity, care and justice in our industries. Find out more about SALT Union on their website or follow SALT on instagram. Contact SALT at salt_union@proton.me with any questions.

This workshop has been made possible with funding from Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust.

Accessibility

The Pine Room at Forgan Arts Centre has level access to the garden and a wheelchair accessible toilet on the same floor. Please email curator@forganartscentre.co.uk if you have any questions around access.