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Agency and Migrant Workers
Date: 27 April 2006
Agency and Migrant Workers
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An Executive Council Statement to the 2006 Annual Delegate Meeting - Agency and Migrant Workers.
Agency staff are a growing sector of the UK workforce and are now used in workplaces in
every sector that Usdaw organises.
With few rights, worse terms and conditions than permanent staff, high mobility and no employment protection, agency workers are among the most vulnerable people in any workplace. They are also among the hardest to organise.
Unless unions recruit, organise, represent and bargain for agency workers, we will see the establishment of two-tier workforces. That would be to the detriment of permanent as well as agency staff in the long term.
Usdaw is therefore campaigning to improve the working conditions of agency workers by representation in the workplace, collective bargaining and campaigning with the Government.
Much of our success will depend on our activity in workplaces, so we need to involve as many of our activists and members as possible.
This statement sets out the issues and the problems we are seeking to address, making suggestions on how we can reach out to and assist agency staff in all workplaces.
Agency and Migrant Workers was correct at date of publication April 2006.
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