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Unite's victory for casual workers at Marriott hotels shows the power of collectivism
A group of hospitality workers – many of them never organised before – collectively demanded, and won, the right to be furloughed by their initially reluctant employer. BRYAN SIMPSON explains
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ON APRIL 8, Marriott Hotels managers sent a letter to over 1,000 casual workers, stating that they were “yet to determine their position” on whether they could be furloughed, citing “significant cashflow issues” as their justification.
This was despite government guidelines released almost two weeks previously, on March 26, stating that zero-hours workers were perfectly entitled to be furloughed and paid at least 80 per cent of average annual earnings.
In fact, this was simply a case of a huge multinational doing everything it could to avoid keeping its most precarious workers on the books.
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