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This year throughout the festive period, UniteLive will highlight our top ten worst bosses of the year – employers so miserly and mean that they’d put Scrooge himself to shame. On our last day of featuring Scrooge bosses, we look at the government. It is arguably the most Scrooge boss of all. That’s because it’s […]
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This year throughout the festive period, UniteLive will highlight our top ten worst bosses of the year – employers so miserly and mean that they’d put Scrooge himself to shame. Today we look at Co-op Funeralcare, which Unite has accused of “using a model of industrial relations straight out of Charles Dickens”. The company operates […]
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This year throughout the festive period, UniteLive will highlight our top ten worst bosses of the year – employers so miserly and mean that they’d put Scrooge himself to shame. Today we look at chicken giant 2 Sisters, which in September pulled a classic Scrooge – it refused workers a day off for the Queen’s […]
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This year throughout the festive period, UniteLive will highlight our top ten worst bosses of the year – employers so miserly and mean that they’d put Scrooge himself to shame. In the original Christmas Carol, Scrooge is described as “squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous” – and that about perfectly sums up today’s Scrooge employer, […]
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This year throughout the festive period, UniteLive will highlight our top ten worst bosses of the year – employers so miserly and mean that they’d put Scrooge himself to shame. Today, we look at not one employer but four, who are all essentially working in concert at the Fawley oil refinery in Hampshire to ensure […]
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This year throughout the festive period, UniteLive will highlight our top ten worst bosses of the year – employers so miserly and mean that they’d put Scrooge himself to shame. Today we look at bosses at a company called Hestia, a referral service which provides adult services in Hounslow in London. Hestia’s workers, who provide […]
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This year throughout the festive period, UniteLive will highlight our top ten worst bosses of the year – employers so miserly and mean that they’d put Scrooge himself to shame. Today we look at Quorn – the celebrated meat substitute brand that often touts its ethical and sustainable credentials. What’s not to like? Well beneath […]
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This year throughout the festive period, UniteLive will highlight our top ten worst bosses of the year – employers so miserly and mean that they’d put Scrooge himself to shame. Today we look at Harrods, London’s most exclusive and luxurious department store. While Harrods’ clientele may be treated like royalty, those who work at the […]
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This year throughout the festive period, UniteLive will highlight our top ten worst bosses of the year – employers so miserly and mean that they’d put Scrooge himself to shame. Today we look at Muller, a German dairy giant which is treating its milk delivery drivers and shunters horrendously as it seeks to impose a […]
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This year throughout the festive period, UniteLive will highlight our top ten worst bosses of the year – employers so miserly and mean that they’d put Scrooge himself to shame. Today we look at Arrow XL, a logistics firm whose eye-watering fortunes in profits it refuses to share with its workers, many of whom earn […]
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Unite has discovered that workers operating on the flagship HS2 project at the Old Oak Common site, are being systematically denied the correct pay rates, resulting in them losing hundreds of pounds…Read more…
Penny-pinching outsourcing giant Serco has been declared the winner of Unite’s Scrooge Employer of the Year award. Serco received the unwanted award, despite facing stiff competition, due to…Read more…
Luton airport cleaners are on a week-long strike as part of a campaign against their “Scrooge” bosses’ pay policies.
Luton airport cleaners are on a week-long strike as part of a campaign against…Read more…
There are jobs that are important – which everyone recognises – and they rightly get the pay and social esteem they deserve. Then there are workers whom none of us could live without, but…Read more…
Unite’s campaign against restaurants skimming waiters’ credit card tips was a resounding success this summer. Pizza Express, along with other high street chains such as Zizzi, Ask and Giraffe gave in…Read more…