Questionnaire for participants of the workshop “Practising solidarity unionism. Or how a cultural worker can stay alive in pandemic?”, with Anna Marjankowska. 15.04, 7 p.m.
Have you ever been asked for opinion on budget planning and distribution of resources in your institution? Have you ever felt that you haven’t been rewarded adequately for your engagement in the project? When was your last raise? How many hours did you work last month? How many of those were unpaid?
If you feel overexploited, underpaid, tired, hopeless, afraid of losing your job, and still trying to deliver interesting art projects to the audience during a global pandemic – you can leave this workshop with a plan for what to do next.
The workshop is dedicated to workers of the art industry – hired in institutions, hunting for grants, freelancers, multiple jobholders, project coordinators, artists, curators, art handlers. Working remotely, at the offices, at the kitchen tables.
Using tactics of solidarity unionism we will go through methods of mapping the physical and social environment of our jobs and search for elements that workers can modify to trigger bigger changes that can have a real impact on their everyday life, working system, mental health, specific working conditions in the art world and creative industry.
 The workshop is designed for max. 15 people and will consist of 3 parts:
 (1) knowing your workplace and mapping the power structure,
 (2) finding your tasks, finding your friends,
 (3) what will happen when you start to organize.
 The workshop will take 1,5h.
The participants will be asked to fill a registration form, that will also serve as a survey to map the expectations, and prioritize certain workplace issues.
Anna Marjankowska is a nightmare of your employer, researcher of modern working conditions specialized in the art field, wrote an MA thesis on ‘Production of ‘Surplus Value’ and Discourse of Creativity. Spreading Beyond the Art Field’, in 2018 started organizing essential workers using radical unions' tactics. In the years 2018-2020 held positions in the boards of the highest institutions of the labour movement in Iceland (Alþýðusamband Íslands, Efling stéttarfélag), currently working in the care sector. Specialized in organizing 'hot' workplaces: facing wage theft, threatening workers with bankruptcy and group firings.