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COFFEE factory workers refusing to sign new fire-and-rehire contracts were handed dismissal notices today in an act of “corporate gangsterism,” Unite said.
The JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) workers at the factory in Banbury, Oxfordshire, are now escalating industrial action with four new strike dates, starting on Saturday.
Unite national officer for the food industry Joe Clarke said fresh strike action has been called to persuade the company not to “cause economic and social havoc to Banbury and the wider economy.”
Organised workers at the notoriously anti-union global giant are scoring victory after victory, and now international bodies are pitching in to finally force this figurehead of corporate capitalism to give in to unionisation, writes EMILIO AVELAR
The Bill addresses some exploitation but leaves trade unions heavily regulated, most workers without collective bargaining coverage, and fails to tackle the balance of power that enables constant mutation of bad practice, write KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY KC
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street
Sharon Graham addresses the Unite policy conference after talks over the Birmingham bin strikes break down