CONDITIONS at Sports Direct are “akin to a workhouse,” the union representing staff at the company charged yesterday.
Unite is calling for precariously employed workers at the company’s main warehouse to be paid the living wage and moved onto permanent contracts.
Earlier this year, Sports Direct’s billionaire founder Mike Ashley refused to be questioned by a committee of MPs, which had planned to grill him on the axing of 200 jobs when a subsidiary of his retail empire was put in administration.
Climate justice and workers’ rights movements are uniting to make the rich pay for our transition to a green economy, writes assistant general secretary of PCS JOHN MOLONEY, ahead of a major demonstration on September 20
Our members face daily abuse, being spat at, sometimes even deadly assaults, and employers fail to take the issue seriously despite the increasing danger, writes RMT general secretary EDDIE DEMPSEY


