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Workplace and TU campaigns / Agency workers
1 February 2012
Tough conditions for agency workers
I am 23 and have been unemployed for four months. Prior to this, I was working in an unskilled job as a temporary worker for a higher education institution...
25 January 2012
Exposed - the dirty world of the construction blacklist
A London Employment Tribunal has found that engineer Dave Smith had been blacklisted by Carillion (JM) Limited and Schal International Limited (a wholly owned subsidiary of Carillion) because he raised concerns about asbestos on building sites and because of his trade union activities...
14 December 2011
PCS members working as tax officials at the HMRC joined in a three-hour lunchtime action on 12 December over the introduction of agency workers in contact centres...
9 November 2011
Israel: General strike over job security
A general strike took place in Israel on Monday 7 November, with workers in the civil service, public transport, universities, airports, sea ports and local authorities among those striking
5 January 2011
Trade unions must fight for agency workers' rights
There could be as many as 1.3 million agency workers in Britain supplied by 17,000 agencies in the almost £20 billion a year 'recruitment industry'...
6 October 2010
Unscrupulous bosses at Tyneside Safety Glass (TSG) want to drive down the pay and conditions of the workforce - but the first week of solid strike action shows that TSG workers are determined to fight this...
10 February 2010
Stoke: Axiom workers in overtime ban
After ten weeks of strike action - two days each week - Axiom Rail workers in Stoke have decided to return to work and impose an overtime ban in their fight for a decent pay increase, writes Andy Bentley.
20 October 2009
Post - a battle that mass strike action can win
Editorial Royal Mail bosses have declared war on the postal workers and their union, the CWU ...
22 September 2009
Over 200 drivers were on official strike last week at the Royal Mail's north west regional distribution centre in a dispute over imposed changes to shift patterns, writes Andy Ford, Warrington trades council.
18 February 2009
Anger as jobs slashed with an hour's notice
Workers at BMW's Mini plant at Cowley in Oxford reacted in fury when they were given an hour's notice that they were losing their jobs, writes Alison Hill.
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