All Campaigns subcategories:
Workplace and TU campaigns keywords:
Zero-hour contracts
Filter by importance | All results
21 April 2021
Covid and precarious workers - union organisation vital
The Trades Union Congress confederation has produced hard facts showing what the Socialist has long argued: namely, that workers on zero-hour contracts and in other precarious jobs are twice as likely to have died from Covid-19 compared to other, more secure, occupations.
30 September 2020
Job Support Scheme - too little, too late
I was working with an agency. I started in April. I was doing about 30 hours a week with them, so regular work. As soon as Covid hit, I was let go with immediate effect.
9 October 2019
Labour and the fight for a shorter working week
Labour conference has resolved the next Labour government should reduce the average full-time working week to four days (32 hours) - without loss of pay - within a decade. This will be welcomed by workers.
4 September 2019
Workplace victory emboldens retail workers to get organised
I work for a well-known high street retailer and recently one of my colleagues came to me, the unofficial union rep, because they were being conned out of 70 hours of holiday
19 June 2019
Trade union action can end low pay
Five million workers in Britain (over one in six) are stuck in low-paid and insecure work, writes Ruth Byrne, catering worker.
5 June 2019
Laughable research denies low-pay scandal
That's how many young adults will have felt when, sat in their bedsits, back living in childhood bedrooms, or sitting in their single rented room in a shared house, they read that actually they are benefiting from better pay according to the Resolution Foundation.
6 March 2019
The Socialist spoke with a shop worker and union member, Olivia, about her conditions at work.
21 November 2018
Save the high street: public ownership, not ghost malls
This year has been a bad year for the retail sector. About 14 shops are closing a day, a net loss of 1,123 from Britain's main high streets in the first half of this year, according to accountants PwC.
24 October 2018
It's one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us including pay cuts for nurses, a new job for Nick Clegg and racist policing in Britol.
10 October 2018
Another first: pub strike victory in south London!
Striking workers at the Ivy House pub in Nunhead, south London, have won all their demands after three days of stoppage
3 October 2018
Catering and courier workers strike together
"I work for the pub chain Wetherspoon where it's possible to work 6am-3pm one day and 3pm-12am the next - with only sporadic days off"
3 October 2018
Coordinated catering and courier strikes prove potential for mass union mobilisation
A massive step up in the battle to unionise workers in fast food and hospitality
5 September 2018
Shop workers hungry for £10 an hour now and an end to zero-hour contracts
I work as an assistant manager in a high street retail chain and one of the most regular complaints I get from my staff is that they are hungry
30 May 2018
Wales TUC 2018: Socialist Party members challenge leadership at undemocratic conference
It was Socialist Party members who brought some life to the Wales TUC congress, speaking in numerous debates and appealing for basic democratic rights. This went down well with delegates.
2 May 2018
100k more zero-hour contracts in just a year
Strike to win secure work!: The number of zero-hour contracts in Britain rose by 100,000 in just a year
11 April 2018
McStrike: ballot for strike action at six McDonald's stores
The bakers' union BFAWU has notified McDonald's that it is balloting workers at six stores with a view to authorising a strike later this year
14 March 2018
Sainsbury's raise really a cut: fight for £10 with no strings!
Supermarket Sainsbury's announced on 6 March that it will increase the wages of its 130,000 store workers.
10 January 2018
Amy Murphy for Usdaw president - vote for a fighting and democratic union
Elections for the new president of Usdaw, the shop and distribution workers' union, take place from 15 January with Socialist Party member Amy Murphy running to give the union a fighting leadership.
18 October 2017
Young people being strangled by debts
Take the wealth off the super-rich - no to the Tories' scapegoating of pensioners!: Over a third of young people are in debt - on average by £2,989 - says the Money Advice Trust
4 October 2017
How appropriate that Theresa May's speech insisting our interests were best served by free market capitalism - "the greatest agent of collective human progress ever created" - came in the same week as budget airline Ryanair cancelled over 700,000 passenger flights
Search entire database:
LATEST POSTS
24 Jun Cardiff East Socialist Party: Does capitalism really encourage innovation?
24 Jun Waltham Forest Socialist Party: House the homeless - take over the empty homes
24 Jun Swansea Socialist Party: Proper jobs and pay now - Youth fight back
CONTACT US
Phone our national office on 020 8988 8777
Email: [email protected]
Locate your nearest Socialist Party branch Text your name and postcode to 07761 818 206
Regional Socialist Party organisers:
Eastern: 079 8202 1969
East Mids: 077 3797 8057
London: 075 4018 9052
North East: 078 4114 4890
North West 079 5437 6096
South West: 077 5979 6478
Southern: 078 3368 1910
Wales: 079 3539 1947
West Mids: 024 7655 5620
Yorkshire: 078 0983 9793
ABOUT US
ARCHIVE
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999