After launching an historic strike in Mexico in 2015, the strawberry pickers of the San Quintin valley are now looking to the US for help, from North American trade unions and consumer organisations.

Europe’s population is ageing and EU member states are looking for ways to ensure the sustainability of their pensions systems. But should this quest be limited to purely budgetary considerations?

“If workers don’t have organisations that are going to help them, who is going to do collective bargaining for them?”

“We are already seeing how autonomous systems are having a detrimental effect on workers. Especially those in non-unionised workplaces, where there are no check-and-balances in the form of organised labour, and no means to reach agreements to rectify [...]

“With low pay, no public transportation and no daycare, there are no incentives for women to remain in the workforce. Sometimes it is cheaper for them to just stay at home.”

“Not only are workers left out of the productivity gains they help to create, the work they do is becoming less and less secure.”