@festlicheameise you might try approaching conservation builders or #conservation orgs. For example English Heritage regularly use blacksmiths with historic building skills, and conservation builders like https://www.hallconservation.com/ use #blacksmiths and #metalworkers for a variety of bespoke work. I can't speak to wages or length of contracts, but it's interesting work!
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/
https://buttress.net/services/conservation too - nice people!
Panicha Kanyana and Anucha Chaipha were suspended from #YPCPrecision after their union #Thailand Autoparts and #MetalWorkers #Union (TAM) organized 400 workers in 2023. YPC transferred 38 unionists, refused them overtime. Trade unionists were threatened with temporary contracts and outsourced workers were brought in.
YPC stop #unionbusting, reinstate Panicha Kanyana with back pay, end discrimination against Anucha Chaipha.
https://www.labourstartcampaigns.net/show_campaign.cgi?c=5556
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/tech/2023/07/129_355359.html
Korean #MetalWorkers' #Union want justice for killed #Hyundai #employees
"The #LaborMinistry has neither carried out a special #labor inspection nor punished the company supervisors". The law can send a company's #CEO to jail if a serious worksite accident occurs where the company has not taken sufficient safety precautions.
#KMWU #Korea #unions #capitalism #WorkplaceSafety #UnionStrong
#MetalWorkers #Welders helping Ukraine #Lithuania https://youtu.be/dSpwreMJnxU
Interview with the Coordination of Metal Workers (CTM) of Cádiz
At the end of last year metalworkers in the southern Spanish port city went on an immense nine-day pay strike as inflation bit into the value of wages, before being brutally let down by union leaderships. More independent and autonomous unions such as the CTM were at the forefront of
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/01/05/interview-with-the-coordination-of-metal-workers-ctm-of-cadiz/
#Cadiz #CPM #metalworkers #Spain #strike
