I was pleased that UK Council leaders are supporting the resolution at the Sports Direct AGM next week for a review of its HR practices. UNISON staff pension fund have backed this campaign via the TUC organised Trade Union Shareholders Organisation. &n…Read more…
Sports Direct: A ‘rare feat’
An investment group worth £14.5 trillion has taken the unusual step of joining Unite and MPs in calling for an independent review and “fundamental reform” at rogue employer Sports Direct. …Read more…
Knocking down the barriers
Migrant workers at Sports Direct (SD) in Shirebrook have praised Unite for assisting them with learning English. The union has established eight English for Speakers of a Second Language…Read more…
Joining the campaign for better conditions at Sports Direct
Sports Direct are the face of bad work conditions at present. If they want that to change, they need to be proactive. Allowing a full, independent investigation of what it’s like to work there is a…Read more…
Working at Sports Direct hurts your health as well as your pay packet
This week we’ve had proof that working at Sports Direct is bad for your pay packet, after the union Unite won a million pounds in back pay for workers who had received less than the legal minimum…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…
Sports Direct AGM: Vote FOR resolution 19
Check out this post by Tom P (see below). If you really think that Sports Direct is acting in a
disgusting and inhumane way to its workforce then contact your pension or insurance provider and ask them to make sure their fund managers vote …Read more…
Sports Direct AGM: Vote FOR resolution 19
I’ve blogged quite a bit about Sports Direct previously, now it’s your chance to do something about it.
The Sports Direct AGM takes place on 7th September, and the company has just issued its notice of meeting. Resolution 19 has been filed by Unite an…Read more…
‘Missed opportunity’
When Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley was hauled before MPs in June to answer questions about “Victorian” work practices within his company, Ashley said, “I would have no problem with an independent…Read more…
Sports Direct: The Evil Workhouse: Union shareholders call for independent review of the inhuman employment practices at AGM
“The Trade Union Share Owners group (TUSO) has submitted a resolution to the Sports Direct AGM calling for an independent review of their widely criticised employment practices, which have led MPs to compare the company to a ‘Victorian workhouse’.
Details of the resolution were published today…Read more…
“Sports Direct” 21st Centuray Workhouse employer & unacceptable face of capitalism
The press has been full of headlines about vile UK retailer “Sports Direct” as being a “workhouse employer” who treats its workers like dirt.
Where women give birth in its toilets and fleets of “999” ambulances have to be sent out to aid wo…Read more…
Sports Direct: investors now have to act or lose legitimacy
About a year ago, the group I’m involved in – Trade Union Share Owners (TUSO) – wrote out to major Sports Direct shareholders calling on them to challenge the company. Specifically we recommended that other shareholders join TUSO in signalling concerns…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…
‘Reap what you sow’
An HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) investigation into infamous employer Sports Direct for not paying its 3000 warehouse staff the national minimum wage is understood to have been widened to include the…Read more…
Justice fight must go on
After watching an inspirational short film on Unite’s campaign at Sports Direct, conference debated and carried a motion calling for continued support for workers and the fight for decent and fair…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…
Daylight robbery
Campaigners were joined by Dick Turpin and Black Bess to accuse the employment agencies running Sports Direct’s Shirebrook warehouse in Derbyshire, of ‘daylight robbery’ on Monday (June 13), in a…Read more…
‘Can’t be responsible for everything’
MPs grilled Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley at a select committee hearing today (June 7) following a campaign spearheaded by Unite which blew the lid off the retail giant’s shocking work practices….Read more…
After the hearing
Pictured is Sports Direct chief Mike Ashley, flanked by police and the press after today’s (June 6) select committee hearing where he was grilled by MPs. Pic by Mark Thomas
The post…Read more…