Royal Mail’s use of agency workers to try to break the post workers’ strike has highlighted the role of employment agencies.
John found a job as a street cleaner. The council used a mix of permanent and agency workers for their street cleaning operation.
Agency workers in Liverpool told a study by the North West TUC how they were "treated like cattle" while working on a multi-million pound government contract.
Over the past decade, the use of temporary agency work has increased dramatically.
‘But, Chris, didn’t Mao lead a genuine revolution in China in 1949?" This was a shout as well as a question, and it reverberated across the London School of Economics (LSE) student canteen.
Can you explain the founding of the weekly paper and the audience it was aimed at?
In March this year over 1,000 people, a large number of them young students, attended an academic conference on "The Idea of Communism" in London.
Will "tougher" action on immigration help to beat the BNP?
Were the post workers’ CWU union leaders right to call off our planned strikes at Royal Mail last week?
Leaders of the postal workers’ union were wrong to suspend strikes at Royal Mail last week.
The ink on the agreement signed by Royal Mail and the postal workers’ union may not yet be dry, but already bosses have shown that they are attempting to string out local talks and keep existing attacks in place.
