Poskusi organiziranja z migrantskimi delavci v Sloveniji

The article presents the specificities of migrant workers’ labour organising in present-day Slovenia. The authors use operaist co-research (conricerca) as a praxis of labour organising and analysing the class composition of migrant workers in a warehouse at one of the biggest retail companies in Slovenia. Drawing on their experience with operaist co-research in organising retail workers, the authors point out the need for and challenges with organising (migrant) workers in retail warehouses. Based on semi-structured interviews with three migrant workers in this retail warehouse, the article describes the labour process at their workplace. We show that an increasing share of migrant workers in warehouses has changed the political and technical composition of retail workers. Drawing parallels between past and present forms of labour exploitation of workers, we argue that while sectoral contexts and migrant demographics have changed, capital’s strategies of labour fragmentation remain the same. We call for a combined approach to organising migrant workers in contemporary Slovenia: we compare the use of co-research by the Cedra collective in retail workers’ trade unions, to other forms of labour organising and migrant workers’ self-organising, such as the Invisible Workers of the World. We conclude with presenting the ongoing activities of Class Issue collective, which include individual legal support for migrant workers and the publication of a workers’ bulletin. These activities function as a political intervention aimed at building solidarity and collective power.