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    http://www.gmb.org.uk/Templates/PressItems.asp?NodeID=96437

    Saw this originally on the front page of todays Observer Business and Meeja section.

    Now I hear that things at "The Sprint" are quite "formal" and "businesslike" etc but this takes the biscuit. How dare he want xmas eve off? How dare he? Lol this is going to do their rep a world of good.
    • CommentAuthorlurkette
    • CommentTimeDec 23rd 2007
     
    i've never been a courier, so perhaps i shouldn't speak. but, i've never been any good at holding my tongue (!!!), so i have to say that i really do hope he takes this as far as he can. listening to tales from the sleeps, i find the treatment of couriers utterly disgusting. it's a shame more of you are not union members, but perhaps if this rather heroic lone courier can take on the man, the man will stop shitting on the rest of you.
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      CommentAuthorjontibs
    • CommentTimeDec 23rd 2007
     
    I saw the demo on Friday but didn't realise what it was about. What seems most interesting in the GMB press release is their challenging the courier's employment status. "[W]e do not consider the employment relationship between Mr Whieldon and your clients CitySprint to fall outside of employment protection laws" Are the companies skating on legal thin ice pretending that couriers are self-employed? I wonder if the GMB could force a test case to decide this in court. Hmm, membership is just £2.40 a week...
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    Depends who you listen to.

    The HMRC web-site http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/calcs/esi.htm couriers pass the 'self-employed' test.

    Others disagree.

    The GMB are doing a good job on this one, but I have read numerous quotes from Terry Flanagan banging on about how foreigners are putting british workers out of a job. If I was trying to build a grass-roots organisation in an industry which relies on 'foreign' workers, then I wouldn't start by challenging their right to a job.
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    • CommentAuthorsleepy
    • CommentTimeDec 24th 2007
     
    "The HMRC web-site http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/calcs/esi.htm couriers pass the 'self-employed' test."

    yes, but after 18 months any "self-employed contractor" is entitled to full employment and all the rights that entails. paul whieldon had been at shit n skint for 5 years. i would love to see this go the whole way.

    "If I was trying to build a grass-roots organisation in an industry which relies on 'foreign' workers, then I wouldn't start by challenging their right to a job."

    i didn't know you were a builder? j/k :wink:

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