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More black women are pushed into zero hours
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More black women are pushed into zero hours

Black and minority ethnic (BAME) women are almost twice as likely to be on zero hours contracts than white men, and one and a half times more likely than white women.
15 June 2021
Calling time on the bullying bosses
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Calling time on the bullying bosses

McDonald’s, Wetherspoon and TGI Fridays strikers on their fight and how they organised
09 October 2018
Pay cuts and precarious contracts fuel college strikes
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Pay cuts and precarious contracts fuel college strikes

One picket said simply, “I’ve worked here on a zero hours contract for ten years.”
24 May 2018
Fight the Tories to win workers’ rights
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Fight the Tories to win workers’ rights

A new battle over zero hours contracts and other work practices is set to take off  
05 February 2018
Bosses owed workers staggering £1.7 million after avoiding minimum wage
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Bosses owed workers staggering £1.7 million after avoiding minimum wage

Sports Direct has been “named and shamed” as one of the 260 bosses who failed to pay workers the national minimum wage.  
08 December 2017
Socialist Review Archive

Wishy-washy review won’t fix gig economy

What has happened to employment in the modern era of the “gig economy” and “zero hour contracts”? And what should be done about it? The Taylor Review, or “Good Work: The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices” to give it its full title, was supposed to answer these questions. However, its arrival on 11 July...
04 September 2017
McDonald’s workers to ballot for strikes to demand £10 an hour and a union
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McDonald’s workers to ballot for strikes to demand £10 an hour and a union

Workers at two McDonald’s restaurants in Cambridge and Crayford, south London, are preparing to ballot for strikes
08 August 2017
‘Worker status’ is not good enough
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‘Worker status’ is not good enough

The Taylor Review was brought about by challenges by workers in bogus self-employment. But there’s a danger that the result will serve the bosses.
11 July 2017
Exploitation is just the job in a bosses’ recovery of low pay and zero hours
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Exploitation is just the job in a bosses’ recovery of low pay and zero hours

More people may be in work but full-time positions are getting harder to find. Behind the figures, Alistair Farrow finds that bosses are making employment work for them—not us
13 September 2016
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Socialist Review Archive

The gig economy and collective action

The supposedly endless rise of precarity is not as straightforward as it seems.
06 September 2016
KFC’s finger lickin’ zero hours lies exposed
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KFC’s finger lickin’ zero hours lies exposed

Fast food giant KFC claims it doesn’t use zero hours contracts in Britain. Alistair Farrow takes apart the spin
26 July 2016
Beyond Caring - ‘To the boss, a cleaner is no more than a sturdy broom’
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Beyond Caring – ‘To the boss, a cleaner is no more than a sturdy broom’

Actor Janet Etuk and director Alexander Zeldin spoke to Alistair Farrow about Beyond Caring, a new play about life on zero hour contracts.
14 June 2016
University strikers take on zero hours and low pay in Winchester
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University strikers take on zero hours and low pay in Winchester

Workers at the University of Winchester are on strike today, Friday. The UCU union members are fighting a measly 1.1 percent pay offer—and want equal pay for women and an end to casualised contracts too.
10 June 2016
Pickets and protest as university workers strike over pay
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Striking lecturers fight casualisation and demand fair pay

UCU union members in higher education are highlighting casualisation on the second day of a two-day strike today, Thursday.
26 May 2016
Strikes and protests make an Unhappy meal for fast food fat cats
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Strikes and protests make an Unhappy meal for fast food fat cats

Campaigners from the Fast Food Rights campaign and the Bfawu union took action across Britain last Thursday. They targeted McDonald’s in solidarity with striking McDonald’s workers in the US.
19 April 2016
Spirit of US fast food strike movement comes to London protest at McDonald's (inc. video)
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Spirit of US fast food strike movement comes to London protest at McDonald’s (inc. video)

McDonald’s workers from the US brought the spirit of their fight for $15 an hour to Britain yesterday, Wednesday, with a noisy protest in central London.
14 January 2016
Amazon Unwrapped
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Amazon Unwrapped

Simon Basketter looks behind the spin of the giant online retailer to examine how it expands by exploiting workers—and what really drives it
15 December 2015
Bosses squeeze us for every last penny, low pay report shows
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Bosses squeeze us for every last penny, low pay report shows

Unpaid overtime, zero hours, no time to eat or for breaks at work— Nick Clark looks at a new report exposing what the Tory claims of economic recovery mean for low paid workers
21 July 2015
TUSC shows there is an alternative to voting for cuts
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TUSC shows there is an alternative to voting for cuts

Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) parliamentary candidates have stood in seats across the country for Thursday’s general election.
05 May 2015
How workers are fighting back against low pay and zero hours
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How workers are fighting back against low pay and zero hours

Low paid workers are unable to make ends meet as bosses cut their hours and attack their conditions
21 April 2015
Day of action demands fast food workers’ rights
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Day of action demands fast food workers’ rights

Activists in the Fast Food Rights Campaign were gearing up for a day of action set to take place on Wednesday of this week.
14 April 2015
Hundreds march in support of London LSE student occupation
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Hundreds march in support of London LSE student occupation

Up to 300 people marched through the campus of London School of Economics (LSE) yesterday, Thursday, in support of a student occupation there.
20 March 2015
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News in brief

Hillsborough—‘not disorderly’ | Councils cut youth spending | Migrants in lorry detained | New rules on zero hours
26 August 2014
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Zero hours dock battle won after indefinite strike at Tilbury

Tilbury Dockers have returned to work after winning the battle against employer SCA Logistics’ attempts to impose zero hours contracts. 
05 August 2014