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WORKERS on zero-hours and short-term contracts in Scotland suffer from a lack of time and control over their own lives, a new report by the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) has said.
The report, entitled Time, Control, Trust: Collectivising in Precarious Work, presents joint research by the STUC and Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities.
It includes testimony from members of several unions, STUC committees, and activists from the Better than Zero campaign against zero-hours contracts.
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
