The Wage Labour Gulag
‘Fire and rehire’ is the most blatant example of a practice that has existed most recently since the Thatcher era. Zero hour contracts
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Industrial
Chep Strike, Manchester
Workers at the major makers of pallets, Chep UK, based in Trafford Park, Manchester, went out on indefinite strike from December 17th 2021.
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Scottish Teachers Overwhelmingly Reject Pay Offer by 98% in EIS Vote
Source: Zero for Conduct Teachers in Scotland have voted overwhelming to reject the latest pay offer from Scotland’s local authorities and the Scottish
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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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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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