The Landworkers’ Alliance is a union of farmers, growers, foresters and land-based workers.

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If you have any comments, critiques, considerations, compliments, complaints, about anything the Landworkers Alliance is or isn’t up to, do let us know your thought. We love feedback, it keeps a system healthy. Please fill in this quick form.

Membership / Supporter / Donation Queries

Please contact Lauren.Simpson@landworkersalliance.org.uk

Requests for work, volunteering or internships

We are currently not recruiting for any roles but please read our newsletters for any announcements. We currently do not offer any volunteer or internship placements directly with the LWA, but keep an eye out in the newsletter or on the forum for any members looking for volunteers or workers.

Academic/Research Enquiries

Please look at the Agroecology Research Collaboration to see if it fits your area of research/work.

Membership Support / Advice

Currently the LWA does not have capacity or resources to help individual members or potential members on their specific projects, farms or programmes. We get a lot of requests for individual support and would love to have the time to respond to each request in full. We are fundraising for a new role for somebody to focus on membership support and services as we have identified it is a gap in our offering so please watch this space. Having said that, if your query is critical and urgent please email info@landworkersalliance.org.uk including the word URGENT in the subject header and it will get picked up and we can try our best to help.

Contacting Individual Staff

Please take the time to explore our staff page here to see who the most relevant contact for your enquiry is.

Our addresses format is firstname.lastname@landworkersalliance.org.uk

Please bear in mind we all work part time and have limited capacity to respond to enquiries outside our core areas of work.

You can also find information under the About Us header about branch and regional organising, and identity groups within the LWA membership.

Press/Media Enquiries:

For any queries relating to press please email press@landworkersalliance.org.uk

Merchandise/calendar Enquiries

For any enquiries to do with shop sales including the calendar please email merchandise@landworkersalliance.org.uk

To Include an Item in Our Newsletter:

You can fill in this quick form to submit it to be included in the next bulletin/newsletter. The deadline to submit is the end of Friday each week for the following week’s member bulletin. With the same form you can also submit to the monthly non-member newsletter which goes out in the first week of the month.

All Other Enquiries:

For any other enquiries that are URGENT please email info@landworkersalliance.org.uk with the word ‘urgent’ in the subject header and we will do our best to help.

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Solidarity with Migrant Landworkers

What’s the issue?

Did you know that the UK relies on 58,000 seasonal workers to harvest the crops grown by our current domestic agricultural system? The majority of these are migrant workers who come to the UK on the Government’s post-Brexit Seasonal Worker Visa scheme. Migrant seasonal workers across the globe are often at the sharpest edge of exploitation by the global corporate food system, enduring long hours, low wages, mistreatment by supervisors and employers, hostile migration systems, and poor housing.

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The Landworkers’ Alliance, in partnership with the New Economics Foundation, Focus on Labour Exploitation, Sustain, and the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, has coordinated an investigation into working conditions on British farms for seasonal workers, in order to help support campaigns for their unionisation.

Our investigation has culminated in the publication of our report Debt, Migration and Exploitation: The Seasonal Worker Visa and the Degradation of Working Conditions in UK Horticulture which you can read yma.

In November 2023 Landworkers’ Alliance joined the newly formulated Seasonal Workers Interest Group to help secure immediate improvements to the Seasonal Worker Visa Scheme, and to advocate for the interests of migrant seasonal workers in the UK. You can read more about the group yma.

As well as leading on this UK-based project, our Migrant Solidarity Campaign Coordinator Catherine McAndrew is also active in the European Coordination of Via Campesina’s (ECVC) Migrant & Rural Workers working group, which coordinates with, and provides support for agricultural workers’ unions which represent workers in the international supply chain.

What can you do?

For an introduction to some of the new issues facing migrant agricultural workers in the UK, we highly recommend reading this report from Focus on Labour Exploitation. For an investigation into the drivers of poor working conditions in a European context, you can find check out this 2019 ECVC report. For news from the ECVC Migrant & Rural Workers Group, see its latest bulletin yma.

For more info, or to get involved with our migrant workers solidarity campaign, please email the project coordinator Catherine McAndrew at catherine.mcandrew@staging.landworkersalliance.org.uk

 

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