Exploitation of young workers
An inside view of zero hours contracts for young people A young ACG member investigates… With 3.62 million young people being employed, and
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Industrial
Brighton pub “forces staff to work with Covid symptoms”
There are plenty of terrible employers out there but the bosses at the Walrus pub in Brighton have set a high bar to
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Pre-Xmas strike at Luton Airport
The front of house staff and drivers who help passengers with mobility issues to board and disembark flights at Luton Airport have had
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Harrods workers: (the threat of) direct action gets the goods!
As restaurant workers at the posh Harrods shop in London (owned by the ludicrously rich Qatari royal family) threatened to go out on
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Harrods workers
Restaurants workers at Harrods, the department store for the rich in London, owned by the royal family of Qatar, are demanding an end
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London Tube Workers Strike
Workers on the Night Tube took action after bosses at London Underground Limited (UL) imposed unacceptable conditions on the reopening of the Night
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Higher education workers prepare to strike
Education workers at universities in the UK are preparing to fight over pay, pensions, casualisation and discrimination. Fifty two universities will strike for
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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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On the buses – London and Manchester
Bus drivers working for London United, owned by the French firm RATP, went out on a 48 hour strike on March 31st through
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Fire and rehire at SPS Leicester
Leicester SPS staff strike over proposed ‘penury-inducing’ fire and rehire cuts of up to £3,000 Leicester workers at aerospace parts firm SPS Technologies
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