Worth Our SALT political education training for landworkers

Worth Our Salt flyer. Credit: SALT

Published: Friday 5 December 2025

From January to March, SALT (Solidarity Across Land Trades) are hosting a series of free sessions across the UK, focused on collective action, solidarity and care. Landworkers will learn about their rights, feel empowered to organise in land-related trades, enjoy free tea, coffee and snacks, and meet fellow workers.

You don’t need to have any experience or previous knowledge of organising to join. Workshops are open to SALT members and non-members and registration is free.

The locations and dates are as follows:

Sheffield: Saturday 24 January
Abergavenney: Saturday 14 February
Exeter: Saturday 28 February
London: Saturday 14 March
Dundee: Saturday 28 March

Travel bursaries are available.

Why now?

A strong workers’ movement is essential. Not only for workers' dignity and survival, but for a just transition towards regenerative and ecological land and food systems that prioritise the welfare of working people. These workshops aim to challenge the decades of normalised abuse and underpayment in land-related sectors, equip you (workers) with the political knowledge and language to challenge abuses of power in your own workplaces, and to help you see yourself as part of a broader worker-led movement.

Through a programme of creative sessions, presentations, group discussions and personal reflections, participants will learn about the links between cheap food, cheap labour, colonialism and capitalism; practice challenging power and asserting rights; and strengthen connectivity across the workers’ movement.

What to expect on the day:

09:30: arrive - refreshments and meet fellow workers
10:00: welcome + introductions - playful exercises to get to know each other
11:00: the cost of food? - examining the links between low wages and cheap food, capitalism, and colonialism
14:00: know your rights - the laws, rights, and regulations that protect you at work
15:15: how to organise in your workplace - scenarios to put these rights into perspective and learn to organise together
17:00:finish

Click here to register or contact salt_union@proton.me to find out more.

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