Campaigners will be outside Chesterfield magistrates’ court tomorrow (October 14) highlighting Sports Direct’s ‘shameful’ treatment of workers and poor corporate governance, as criminal proceedings…Read more…
Why did Sports Direct call ambulances 82 times?
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Sports Direct’s Shirebrook warehouse is the heart of the giant sportswear retailer, handling clothes and kit that will be sold all over the country. The pace of work there is relentless, and the harsh conditions have long been protested by Unite, who represent workers there. But now a…Read more…
Sports Direct chief exec faces criminal charge over USC collapse
Even since I blogged earlier things have got worse for Sports Direct. The Grauniad broke the news that the company’s chief executive Dave Forsey is facing a criminal charge over the USC collapse.
David Forsey, the chief executive of Sports Direct, has …Read more…
Sports Direct: you can’t say you weren’t warned
Sports Direct is back in the news, for all the wrong reasons. This week alone we have seen the following:
A BBC documentary revealed that ambulances were called to Shirebrook dozens of times in 2013 and 2014 because of employee illness. Some of t…Read more…
Workers’ Capital Conference 2015 (Day 2)
This is a little late. I have posted here and linked here on the first day of this global annual conference for trade union pension trustees and organisers that took place earlier this month.
(On my https://twitter.com/grayee account I tweeted o…Read more…
Sports Direct: pressure is on
Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley has often appeared invincible by using the massive profits he has generated from forcing his employees to endure low wages and zero-hours contracts to knock out his…Read more…
‘Victorian’ work practices
Unite members dressed as Dickensian workers will protest outside Sports Direct’s annual general meeting tomorrow (Wednesday September 9), demanding an end to the retailer’s ‘Victorian’ work…Read more…
Unions and investors unite to oust Sports Direct Chair at AGM
Ahead of next week’s Sports Direct company AGM, the company’s Chair Keith Hellawell is coming under increasing pressure from unions and minority shareholders
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Vote against Keith Hellawell as director of Sports Direct
“VOTE AGAINST resolution 4 to re-elect Keith Hellawell as a Director of Sports Direct International PLC at the AGM 9/9/15
We believe that voting against the chair Keith Hellawell is appropriate in order to send a message about our concerns about mana…Read more…