Five million workers were found to have had their overtime unpaid, working out on average £5,400 per person – a record figure in unpaid overtime.
Northern Ireland came out as one of the worst regions, with workers likely to work 10 hours of unpaid overtime each week! It is estimated 900,000 workers worked more than 10 hours unpaid overtime a week last year.
This criminal behaviour gives lie to the arguments from bosses and politicians that “we are all in the same boat” and we all need to share the pain of the economic crisis.
Thousands of Fujitsu workers across Britain and Northern Ireland are involved in a major fight against attacks on pay, pensions and jobs.
Tunisia is a different country to the one it was a month ago. The powerful movement of revolt of the Tunisian masses has swept away the dictator President Ben Ali with lightning speed, testimony to the rage that has been accumulated by decades of autocratic rule. Fear of talking about politics, even in private, has been replaced by a gigantic process of political ferment; a revolution is beginning. How far away are the days of Ben Ali’s ‘uncontested’ dictatorship!