P&O workers – determined to fight on
Kent ACG attended the RMT demo in Dover on Saturday. About the same number of people as the previous weekend (roughly 200). No
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Fire and rehire
The Wage Labour Gulag
‘Fire and rehire’ is the most blatant example of a practice that has existed most recently since the Thatcher era. Zero hour contracts
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Sheerness workers defeat fire and rehire but…
Over thirty workers who process Volkswagen Group vehicles at Sheerness Docks fought back against plans by their employers, GB Terminals, to change minimum
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Workplace notes
Clarks Shoes We have reported on the strike of the Clarks shoe warehouse workers in previous Workplace Notes. Just to say that 2
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Clarks workers strike against fire and rehire
Over a hundred workers at the main distribution warehouse of Clarks Shoes in Street, Somerset have been on strike for over two weeks.
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Weetabix Fire and Rehire
Engineers at two Weetabix factories went out on a two-day strike in late September. The workers at Kettering and Corby came out over
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School workers fight against Fire and Rehire
Valence Primary School in Dagenham, East London, is a community school run by the local Labour council. Management are now implementing fire and
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Fire and rehire at Douwe Egberts
As we have stated here on the ACG website, fire and rehire is a tactic increasingly being used against workers in Britain. This
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Fire and rehire: a new tactic of the bosses
Bosses have seized the opportunity created by the COVID pandemic to opportunistically sack workers and rehire them with lower pay and worse conditions.
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Workplace Notes
Bus Workers defeat fire and rehire The bosses of Go Ahead, the company that is big in public transport in Britain, has dropped
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