While staff employed directly receive up to 44 days holiday paid each year, outsourced staff are facing, with bank holidays and closures taken into account, only 14.. Sonia Chura, an outsourced worker at University of London said that the outsourced workers 'are treated like second class workers'.
It would be illegal to sack an employee for participating in industrial action, but not an outsourced worker.
The aim is to gain sick days, holiday and pensions for outsourced workers.
My new reorganized factory produces $1.5 million in output, of which $500,000 comes from outsourced workers.
The incident occurred this afternoon as part of a protest for the 3Cosas campaign, fighting for sick pay, holiday and pensions for the University of London's outsourced workers.
The info on the $50 bounty and the outsourced workers got passed around a few media blogs, but I was disappointed by the overall lack of outrage.
The campaign, known as "3 Cosas" (three matters, affairs in Spanish), has been putting pressure on the University of London for over a year, aiming to grant sick pay, holiday pay and pension rights to its outsourced workers.
Equally well served are some "outsourced" workers who may labor at home or on the road but are authorized by higher authority to use SecurID cards and passwords to scale institutional fire walls and tap into networks of privilege.
The campaign 3Cosas, which means "three things" in Spanish, is fighting to gain the same sick pay, holiday pay and pensions for outsourced workers at the University of London as is currently reserved for those in-house.
Unsurprisingly, downtrodden and outsourced workers, mis-sold-to customers, exploited suppliers and underpowered innovation cancelled out any gains from ever more ingenious financial engineering – leaving shareholders less well off in the shareholder-value-era since 1980 than in previous decades.
Around 50 workers and supporters took to the picket lines at the University of London today, armed with music, whistles, flags and placards as part of an ongoing campaign to win better pay and conditions for the university's outsourced workers.
