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A ROMANIAN factory worker opened up to the Unite conference yesterday to reveal how he was working more than 30 hours unpaid overtime a week before he joined the union.
Andrei Dudau worked 16-hour shifts six days a week during busy periods when he began work at the Dorset food factory in 2004.
He and 100 other Romanians that were handed temporary contracts at the same time earned only the minimum wage for backbreaking work and could be deported at the whim of the bosses.
As unions sound the alarm on kafala-like dependence, FC Barcelona must decide whether their values extend beyond the pitch, writes KIVANC ELIACIK
Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
Employment lawyer ALICE BOWMAN warns ‘day one rights’ include an undefined ‘initial period’ and the zero-hours contract fixes create baffling fixed-term loopholes. If the Bill doesn’t work properly and deliver, Labour is doomed
