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A part of the University of Glasgow, Scotland
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TRADE unionists gathered in Glasgow today to protest against proposed fire-and-rehire plans set out for staff at the University of Glasgow.
Unite Scotland organised a demonstration prompted by a campus-wide review that will result in some workers losing thousands of pounds per year in take-home pay and removal of protection for the terms and conditions of in-house catering staff.
While catering outlets have been closed on campus and the staff made redundant, the new James McCune Smith Building’s catering operations will be staffed by a new wholly owned subsidiary company that is solely profit-driven.
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
