{"id":6226,"date":"2015-10-12T12:14:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T11:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=6226"},"modified":"2015-10-12T12:14:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T11:14:03","slug":"organise-and-change-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=6226","title":{"rendered":"Organise and change lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A <em>Tale of Two Cities<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c is a powerful graphically illustrated novel about the plight of bullied and exploited hotel workers \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and how by organising together change can be brought about.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite commissioned the novel as a recruitment tool to reach out to a marginalised workforce \u00e2\u20ac\u201c who often do not speak English and know very little of their workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 rights.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The poor working conditions of British hotel workers are vividly brought to life in the novel, by artist and former chambermaid Barbara Pokryszka (pictured).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One illustration shows exhausted room attendants being shouted at to work faster, and told to \u00e2\u20ac\u0098shut up and go back to work if you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to lose your job\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Barbara says that despite the harsh conditions staff are often too frightened to join the union and suffer in silence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bI knew I had to do something to tell the story of what it was really like and I started to paint to express the suffering of workers and to press for change.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Barbara dedicated a whole year to the graphic novel in the hope that it will inspire all workers to organise and fight back whatever industry they worked in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite is proud to publish this powerful illustrated graphic story,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Dave Turnbull Unite regional officer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe poor working conditions of British hotel staff so movingly illustrated in this novel are all too common across the industry. Workers need to get organised, they need a trade union on their side to challenge these types of unfair work practices head on,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And now UNITElive is proud to present in a world exclusive,\u00c2\u00a0a<em>\u00c2\u00a0Tale of Two Cities<\/em> every day in serial form.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today we begin with Episode 1 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0098I need a job\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to UNITElive and watch the story unfold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tale of Two Cities \u00e2\u20ac\u201c is a powerful graphically illustrated novel about the plight of bullied and exploited hotel workers \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and how by organising together change can be brought about. &nbsp; Unite commissioned the novel as a recruitment tool to reach out to a marginalised workforce \u00e2\u20ac\u201c who often do not speak English [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[419],"wps_subtitle":"A 'Tale of Two Cities' world exclusive ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6226"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6230,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6226\/revisions\/6230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}