NUS Scotland President Liam McCabe explains why the students’ union is endorsing Unite Hospitality to eradicate unfair and exploitative work in Scotland
It WAS an immense privilege to be elected as NUS Scotland President, outlining my radical, positive vision for a powerful, campaigning, grassroots student movement.
Global effort against massive low pay corporation wins results
SCOTTISH activists who campaigned against low pay and poor conditions at Amazon warehouses have joined international celebrations after forcing the company to lift their pay levels.
Amazon has relented to global political and industrial pressure by raising its basic pay to $15 per hour and in the UK to £9.50.
Campaign group Better than Zero featured in second edition of SCOTIA
SCOTIA is a new live audience show hosted by journalists Robert J Somynne and Michael Gray, alongside film-maker Phantom Power Films.
The second show examines precarious work.
Watch the first show on the housing crisis here.
Thousands of Amazon warehouse workers in Germany, Spain and Poland today went on strike, demanding better working conditions
THE BETTER THAN ZERO CAMPAIGN has welcomed the outbreak of industrial action against the e-commerce megacorporation Amazon across several European nations, and has expressed its hope that such strikes spread to the UK.
Living Rent and Better Than Zero collaboration launched to make connections between unstable work and housing
A PROGRAMME OF events in Glasgow and Edinburgh this March aims to raise awareness and develop strategies for taking control of labour, land and housing in response to the trend of “precarious living that is wearing down a generation”.
Big business under fire for pressuring workers to travel against official advice
A NUMBER OF big names in business, including McDonald’s, KFC and Deliveroo, have been criticised for remaining in service through severe weather alerts from the Met Office, forcing workers to make their way through potentially treacherous conditions.
Unions congress launches survey to gather workers’ experiences of employers’ severe weather practices
WITH MOST of Scotland suffering at the hands of the “Beast from the East”, the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) wants to know if employers have been playing fair around workers’ ability and safety to travel.
New policy paper advocates an immigration system for Scotland based around workers’ rights
IMMIGRATION AND EMPLOYMENT LAW should be devolved to the Scottish Parliament, a new policy paper from the pro-independence think tank Common Weal has argued.
Campaign group scores another victory by exposing manager who bullied staff members
THE MANAGER of an Italian restaurant in Glasgow has resigned following claims he was bullying female staff members.
Giuliano Delia resigned from Via Italia after the company received complaints about its former manager.
Workers rights group set to target employers with “direct action”
CAMPAIGN group Better Than Zero (BTZ) is hosting an open meeting tonight to inform workers of employment rights around rising precarious workplace practises.
The group has called the meeting to focus on unpaid trial shifts and to offer information to people who haven’t been paid after working shifts at events like concerts.
The meeting will take place at the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) building on Woodlands Road from 6.00 pm to 8.30 pm.