Christmas Message on Agency Workers
22nd December 2009
CWU sent Christmas
cards with a message to all MPs this December: 'All we want for
Christmas is... equal rights for agency workers!'
The long-running campaign to secure equal treatment for agency workers hit another bump in the long road to achieving legal status when Lord Mandelson announced the long awaited Bill would not be implemented until October 2011.
The Temporary and Agency Workers Directive (TAWD) was passed at the European Parliament after a long campaign from the TUC, CWU and other unions. The delay in implementing these rights until the latest possible moment means that UK agency workers will have to wait for these modest rights to come into UK law.
The Christmas card reminds MPs of the outstanding rights with a festive poem:
"Silent night, silent night
Equal rights, still out of sight
Toys and gifts we long to share
Pay rates we can't compare
It's justice now we long for
Help us we
implore."
To find out more about the campaign for agency rights please visit the CWU campaign page at: www.cwu.org/temporary-agency-worker-directive-tawd.html
Write to your MP to encourage them to get behind these rights for agency workers at: http://www.writetothem.com/
