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New unions for staff in precarious work
Two new union groupings have been launched in recent weeks to help workers combat increasingly precarious employment.
One for workers in the TEFL — teaching English as a foreign language industry — involves teachers, admin staff and interns who say they are “tired of bad contracts and insecure employment”. It comes under the ambit of the Industrial Workers of the World union, which has already won some gains for workers in the sector.
The other is Legal Sector Workers United, organised through the United Voices of the World. This is open to any workers in the sector, from cleaners and security guards to paralegals and practicing solicitors and barristers. It aims to tackle the sector’s surprising levels of poverty pay and inequality.