Carl Messenger, our Health and Safety rep, and a long-serving steward in the Library, writes about how he started becoming an activist at Warwick, and how the 80s miners' strike shaped him as a politically engaged, disengaged, and then engaged person.

It will come as no surprise that workplace health & safety has become ever more important as a result of the global pandemic. We are therefore keen to support members who would like to receive training to become Health & Safety representatives with our branch.