UNITE launched a major national campaign today to end bosses’ “bully-boy” fire-and-rehire tactics.
Workers around the country began a fresh wave of strikes, solidarity actions and leafleting of workplaces to put pressure on PM Boris Johnson to outlaw the practice.
According to the TUC, one in 10 workers have already been threatened with fire and rehire – a situation in which bosses threaten staff with the sack unless they accept new contracts with worse pay and conditions.
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey has described the practice as a “disease that’s ripping through our workplaces.”
The union is fighting for members threatened with fire and rehire, including bus drivers at Go North West in Manchester and coffee workers at the Jacobs Douwe Egberts plant in Banbury, Oxfordshire.