Sports Direct was named in three separate modern slavery trials within six months this year, all of which related to Polish migrants being sent to work at the firm’s Shirebrook warehouse through…Read more…
Pay your dues
Unite today (May 19) called on the new owners of Transline to break with the past by building a new constructive relationship with both its workers and Unite. As a first step, Unite urged…Read more…
‘Uphill struggle’
Unite – the union fighting for a fair deal for Sports Direct workers – has warned today (April 12) that the company’s newly appointed board member will face an uphill struggle to have workers’…Read more…
NHS agency staff back down
The back down by NHS bosses on an edict that would have restricted agency staff working in the NHS has been welcomed by Unite today (March 31). The union, which has 100,000 members in the…Read more…
‘Address gross injustice’ call
An agency supplying labour to Sports Direct’s warehouse in Derbyshire has yet to honour a deal it made to award back pay to workers who were illegally underpaid the minimum wage. The continued…Read more…
Tell The TUC: Survey on Zero hour contracts and Agency working
Are you one of the 1 in 10 people in insecure work – like a zero hours contract or working through an agency?If so, we want to hear from you!Many people now have jobs that give them little or no security. This may because you rely on an agency to provide you with work – and there’s no…Read more…
Sacked for grieving
There’s nothing more difficult than losing a family member. Grieving takes time – time for which most bosses will give their workers off from work. But not so for Shaun Bate of Liverpool,…Read more…
‘Forgotten face’ of insecure work
Unite and the TUC have called for stricter legislation to prevent the exploitation of agency workers, after a study found that 1m people will be working for employment agencies in Britain by 2020….Read more…
‘Nothing short of robbery’
Dodgy recruitment agencies are cheating the taxpayer out of “hundreds of millions” of pounds, a Guardian investigation has found. Temp agencies have raked in cash through “contrived” financial…Read more…
Unite pay justice result
Sports Direct workers marked a significant milestone in their journey to justice today (August 15) after thousands of workers at Sports Direct’s Shirebrook warehouse in Derbyshire are set to secure …Read more…
‘Free to exploit at will’
When Theresa May gave a speech after it was announced she would become the UK’s next prime minister, she pledged that the Tory party will put itself “completely, absolutely, unequivocally” at the…Read more…
Feet to the fire
The ‘Victorian’ employment practices of Sports Direct were condemned by a damning business select committee report published today (July 22), thanks to evidence given by Unite. The committee…Read more…
Sports Direct profits plummet
Unite warned that the ‘shameful’ work practices of employment agencies, Transline and The Best Connection, were causing irreparable harm to the reputation of Sports Direct and lasting damage to its…Read more…
Stand and deliver!
Unite Community in Chesterfield staged on Monday (June 13) a protest outside the offices of Best Connection, one of two employment agencies that supplies Sports Direct with labour. Singing a…Read more…
UNISON welcomes halt to mental health trust’s pension sacrifice plan
Trust’s management withdraws plans to offer more pay to nurses if they sacrifice pension contributions
The article UNISON welcomes halt to mental health trust’s pension sacrifice plan first…Read more…
UNISON welcomes halt to mental health trust’s pension sacrifice plan
Trust’s management withdraws plans to offer more pay to nurses if they sacrifice pension contributions
The article UNISON welcomes halt to mental health trust’s pension sacrifice plan first…Read more…
Using agency workers to break strikes will threaten safety
I have already written about the effect that the Trade Union Bill will have on health and safety by restricting the right to strike and limiting the amount of time off that trade union health and…Read more…
Using agency workers to break strikes will threaten safety
I have already written about the effect that the Trade Union Bill will have on health and safety by restricting the right to strike and limiting the amount of time off that trade union health and…Read more…
Using agency temps to replace striking workers will threaten the basic right to strike for all
Two years ago this September, workers at Hovis in Wigan took strike action and won a landmark victory over increasing zero-hours work in their factory, safeguarding an important source of secure…Read more…
Cameron playing with fire on workers’ rights
The TUC has been criticised for crying wolf over the Prime Minister’s plans to use the EU renegotiation phase of the referendum strategy to attack workers’ rights. But today’s media stories suggest we are spot on the money on both working time and temporary agency workers. The…Read more…