STUDY LABOUR AND SOCIAL JUSTICE CROSSING THE DIVIDE Informal Workers and Trade Unions Building Power Informal and precarious work is a reality for millions of work­ers and a defining characteris­tic of many economies. Therefore, it is imperative that unions and informal workers cross the divide that often ex­ists between them to strength­en the rights of all workers. Dave Spooner, Georgia Montague-Nelson and Jess Whelligan March 2021 Reflecting on experiences about building relationships between informal worker or­ganisations and the trade un­ion movement shows that working together can increase the power resources of both formal and informal workers.