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25 September 2013
'Success' for owners - zero for workers
With £200 million profit, a company valued at almost £4 billion, and 90% of staff on zero-hour contracts, many in Britain's ruling class see Sports Direct as a modern success story, writes A zero-hour contract worker.
18 September 2013
Second seven-day strike at Hovis
Hundreds of bakers in Wigan are mounting a second seven-day strike against casualisation [updated 18/9/13]
18 September 2013
A Trade Union Congress (TUC) press release after Miliband's speech to Labour conference shows how ties with the Labour Party hold back trade union struggle.
Student occupation continues at Sussex 13-3-13, photo Brighton and Hove Socialist Party
18 September 2013
Anger at zero-hour contracts in universities
Rent-a-prof?: Sports Direct, McDonalds, Wetherspoons, Cineworld and... Britain's universities. Many people were no doubt shocked to hear that the use of zero-hour contracts is endemic not just among employers in retail
13 September 2013
YFJ continues fight against zero-hour contracts at Sports Direct
Activists in Youth Fight for Jobs pledge to continue their fight against zero-hour contracts after news that Sports Direct joins the FTSE 100
11 September 2013
Zero faith in Labour on zero-hours
New research by Unite the Union has found that as many as 5.5 million workers could be on zero-hour contracts, writes Helen Pattison, East London Socialist Party.
Wigan Hovis bakers on seven-day strike against massive pay cuts and casualisation, photo Hugh Caffrey
29 August 2013
Hovis bakers on 7-day strike against massive pay cuts and casualisation
Hundreds of bakers at Hovis in Wigan are strikiing against zero-hour contracts and casualisation
28 August 2013
As a former employee of Sports Soccer which was the predecessor of Sports Direct it came as little surprise to me to learn that this company is one of the worst culprits for using zero-hour contracts, writes an ex-Sports Soccer worker.
28 August 2013
Unionise to fight zero-hour contracts!
I started working for the fast food restaurant Kentucky Fried Chicken nine months ago. I had left my job in a supermarket, to find a full-time job
19 August 2013
Debating zero-hour contracts on Radio Five
I cannot even plan to go to the pub, so I cannot even start to imagine having responsibility for children while holding a zero-hours contract
19 August 2013
Zero-hour contract protests at Sports Direct and Primark
Youth Fight for Jobs campaigners target zero-hour employers in Plymouth city centre
16 August 2013
Zero-hour contract protests in Leeds and York this Saturday
Youth Fight for Jobs (YF) activists in Yorkshire will be holding protests against zero-hour contracts this Saturday, 17th August, with protests outside Sports Direct in Leeds and York at 12 noon
Youth Fight for Jobs outside Sports Direct, photo by Ian Pattison
14 August 2013
Zero tolerance for zero-hours!
Zero-hour contracts have hit the headlines with a bang. One million workers - more than four times as many as previously thought - are on zero-hour contracts, writes Ian Pattison, Youth Fight for Jobs.
14 August 2013
At Sports Direct, Boots, Buckingham Palace, Wetherspoons, even for the government, zero-hour contracts are becoming widely used, writes Helen Pattison, London Socialist Party.
8 August 2013
Zero-hour workers speak - protests continue
"Zero-hour contracts leave you at the mercy of your employer. No guaranteed hours, no sick pay, no holidays." Join the protests!
5 August 2013
'Sports Direct hear us say, zero-hours - no way!'
Fifty protesters gathered outside the Oxford Street branch of Sports Direct in central London on Saturday 3 August to demand an end to zero-hour contracts.
30 July 2013
Protests outside zero-hour contract Sports Direct
Shockingly, but unsurprisingly, it has been exposed that all 20,000 part-time staff at Sports Direct, owned by billionaire tycoon Mike Ashley, are on zero-hour contracts.
26 June 2013
Labour council introduces zero-hour contracts
A Welsh Labour-led local authority has announced plans to put existing workers on zero-hours contacts, writes Ronnie Job.
Youth Fight for Jobs protest outside Downing Street on budget day 2012, photo Suzanne Beishon
22 August 2012
Zero-hour contracts mean zero rights
I was recently interviewed by BBC Two's Newsnight after writing in the Socialist (issue 719) about zero-hour contracts and feel privileged to have spoken for the unemployed, writes Natalie Owen, Coventry, West Midlands.
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