Help Usdaw campaign for equal rights for agency workers

Usdaw is working very hard to achieve equal treatment for agency workers. This, in turn, will help permanent staff by stopping rogue employers from undercuting existing terms and conditions with cheap agency labour.

You can help our campaign in two ways:

1. Please e-mail your MP, by visiting http://www.unionstogether.org.uk/takeaction and asking them to vote for the Temporary and Agency Workers Bill. This Bill gives agency workers the right to equal treatment and will help us stop the undercutting of the terms and conditions of permanent staff.

This Bill is up for its second reading on Friday 22 February, and if it is to proceed then we need the support of at least 100 MPs.

2. Let us have any examples of agency workers being exploited or employers using agency workers to undercut permanent staff, by completing our survey online at: http://www.usdaw.org.uk/surveys/

Any evidence you give us will be completely confidential. You do not have to give us your name, but it would be helpful if we were able to contact you to seek further information. Alternatively, print out the survey below, fill it in and post it back to:

Politics Section
Survey - Abuse of Agency Workers
Usdaw
188 Wilmslow Road
Fallowfield
Manchester
M14 6LJ

or e-mail your responses to: political.section@usdaw.org.uk

John Hannett
Usdaw General Secretary

Survey - Evidence of abuse of agency workers

You do not have to answer all the questions below, any information you are able to provide us with will help the campaign. Please circle your answers.

1. Please estimate the proportion of staff in your workplace that are agency workers:

2. Has the proportion of agency workers increased in the last two years?

3. Do agency workers in your workplace get paid less than permanent staff?

4. Has the introduction of agency workers affected the earnings of permanent staff?

5. Has the introduction of agency workers affected permanent staff in any other way?

6. Are you aware of any circumstances that agency staff are treated less favourably than permanent staff?

7. Are you a member of Usdaw?

8. Are the agency staff in your workplace members of Usdaw?

9. If yes, how many agency staff are member of the Union?

10. I support an Agency Workers Directive that will guarantee agency workers equal treatment and will prevent employers from using agency workers to undercut the terms and conditions of permanent staff.

11. Do you have any other comments?

If you give us contact details we promise not to pass them on to anybody else, but it might be helpful if were able to get in touch:

Name: ________________________________________

e-mail: ________________________________________

Phone: ________________________________________

Employer: ________________________________________

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