I resent the way in which the media, and government, chooses to label some within the workforce as "key workers" - meaning public sector workers. (aka "Parasite workers") but leave that prejudice aside for a moment and concentrate on the news that .. "House prices in Northern Ireland need to fall even further before property in the Province is affordable for key workers such as nurses and firefigh...

Here are two highlights from new research carried out by the No Shit Sherlock! Department: 1. Migrant workers are more likely to be working as temps or in insecure work (for example not having a written contract) than any other workers. 2. Recent migrant workers are more than twice as likely as other workers to be earning less than the appropriate NMW for their age. We could have guessed the first...

You can see a TV report here. A number of SSP members including Colin Fox, former MSP and Angela Gorrie, Maryfield by election candidate visited the workers today to show their support. Solidarity has the following report from the Dundee factory, Prisme, where twelve workers have occupied, in protest at being made redundant in a scandalous

Amidst the confusion of the last few weeks you might have missed the EXCELLENT news that the Government has finally agreed to legislation which will give agency workers the same rights as full time workers. This is a big step in preventing agency workers being used to undermine existing terms and conditions and preventing the exploitation of those agency workers.

Hot off the heels of workers who have occupied their factory in Belfast, workers in the Enfield Visteon plant joined them this week when they went into occupation on Wednesday 1 April. Some workers are demanding the factory be kept open and that workers make green products such as bikes, solar...

About 240 workers in Hampshire are on strike in support of workers in Lincolnshire angry at the use of foreign workers.

Via the ever-amusing Mark Wadsworth comes this marvelous research: 1. Migrant workers are more likely to be working as temps or in insecure work (for example not having a written contract) than any other workers. 2. Recent migrant workers are more than twice as likely as other workers to be earning less than the appropriate NMW for their age. Wow. I'm stunned. Leaving aside the fatuity that i...

by Gregor Gall Workers in Britain on strike against the refusal of employers to employ local labour: a sense of déjà vu? The very same engineering construction workers who went on strike against the exclusive use of imported foreign workers earlier this year are now doing it again. Their beef is not that British workers are being

Support Visteon workers! 200 Visteon car plant workers in Belfast are blockading their factory after the company went into administration today. If they get away with it, over 600 workers in ex-Ford factories in Belfast, Enfield and Basildon will be sacked and left to claim statutory redundancy form the state. Stop press: Workers in Basildon and Enfield

It looks like the determination and use of the 'old ways' to settle a dispute have paid off for the Visteon workers. It is apt that on Workers Day that a much better deal has been offered involving significant higher compensation. Credit has to be given to the workers, the Belfast workers are still...