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7 May 2014
Year zero: Tory Chancellor George Osborne fantasises about rising employment but the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show a massive rise in workers on zero-hour contracts
7 May 2014
No support for zero-hour contracts
Young people fighting back: With zero-hour contracts hitting the headlines again I got a phone call from Sky News asking if I would be interviewed as I used to work on a zero-hour contract, writes Helen Pattison, Youth Fight for Jobs.
30 April 2014
Usdaw conference - fighting democratic union needed
From 4 to 7 May, around 1,000 reps and activists in shop and distribution workers' union Usdaw will meet for our Annual Delegate Meeting (ADM) in Blackpool, writes an ADM delegate.
30 April 2014
Cost of living crisis: Scrap zero-hour contracts!
1,500 people queued for hours outside an Aldi store in the hope of getting a job
30 April 2014
Good Samaritan: While David Cameron was sermonising about his religious beliefs, two leading church officials were receiving less than a Christian welcome at his Tory party constituency office in Witney, Oxfordshire
23 April 2014
Zero-hour contracts damage your health
A recent report by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills found that zero-hour contracts or flexible working generally can have a damaging effect on a worker's mental health, causing anxiety and other stress related disorders
16 April 2014
Working on zero-hour contracts
At the Sports Direct (SD) store I work in, 90% of us are on zero-hour contracts. Before Christmas they were hiring so many people, every day there was someone new. Over 180 people were working in the store
2 April 2014
Junk jobs - we're fightin' it!
YFJ had a day of action against zero-hour contracts on 29 March, supported by the Fast Food Rights campaign and the BFAWU union
28 March 2014
Fast Food Rights campaign protests: 29th March
Protests are taking place across the country tomorrow as part of the 'fast food rights' campaign
26 March 2014
Jobmatch: yet another fiasco of privatisation
In the two years since its introduction, the Universal Jobmatch website has been riddled with problems
Sick of Your Boss? Youth Fight for Jobs campaigning, photo Nancy Taaffe
19 March 2014
Fight for real jobs for young people
Join the day of action on 29 March
5 March 2014
Fighting youth low pay (and security bullies)
On 1 March Socialist Party and Youth Fight for Jobs campaigners protested against zero-hour contracts, low pay and poor working conditions in Croydon
26 February 2014
'Welfare reform' - an avalanche of misery
"We must, as a society, face up to the fact that over half of people using foodbanks have been put in that situation by cutbacks to and failures in the benefit system, whether it be payment delays or punitive sanctions." These aren't the words of an opposition politician or an angry protester
24 February 2014
Nuneaton students demand proper wages and hours
Young members of Nuneaton Socialist Party led a student protest outside the local office of Tory MP Marcus Jones
12 February 2014
Fast food workers: Hungry for decent pay and conditions
A new campaign aims to win rights for fast food workers
15 January 2014
Officials from bakers' union BFAWU recently held a 'fast food forum' with campaigners from groups including Youth Fight for Jobs
13 November 2013
Young workers say: Zero hours no way!
"Zero-hours no way, decent jobs and decent pay", was the slogan shouted outside the bosses' CBI headquarters in London on 5 November, writes Claire Laker-Mansfield.
Jarrow March 2011: Jarrow March for Jobs arrives in London, photo Paul Mattsson
30 October 2013
Zero-hour contracts can be beaten!
The CBI, the organisation representing Britain's bosses, touts zero-hour contracts as the solution to the youth unemployment crisis
23 October 2013
We need action against zero-hour contracts
How do you make a £1.7 billion fortune? It's perhaps not a question most of us have spent too much time pondering.
25 September 2013
Bakers rise against Hovis: Victory shows zero-hours can be beaten
BFAWU bakers stop Hovis from using agency workers and zero-hour contracts to drive down wages, terms and conditions
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