The Living Wage: Professor Jane Wills’ inaugural lecture
Impactt attended a fascinating and inspiring inaugural lecture by Professor Jane Wills on the Living Wage on Thursday evening. Professor Wills used the issue of the ‘living wage’ to ask questions about the morality and sustainability of our economic system.Wills made comparison between the late nineteenth century campaign for a living wage in East [...]
Impactt opens new Middle East and North African office in Dubai
We are delighted that our network has extended into the Middle East and North African region. This expansion will be headed up by Jaana Quaintance, Senior Project Manager – Middle East and North Africa, who will be based in Dubai from April 2009. Prior to her move, Jaana has worked in the UK team [...]
Northumbria Fashion Students given a taste of factory working conditions
Impactt were fascinated to read about a three-day factory simulation conducted by 22 fashion design and marketing students at Northumbria University last week. In a move reminiscent of last year’s TV phenomenon Blood Sweat and T-shirts, the students experienced factory working conditions by setting up sewing lines and using time cards to clock on [...]
BMW Criticised for ‘scandalous’ treatment of Agency Workers
The International Labor Organization predict that the economic downturn will lead to 50 million workers being unemployed globally by the end of 2009. This week BMW fell under heavy criticism from union leaders after axing the jobs of 850 agency workers, following on from an additional 300 temporary job [...]
Wild cats, discrimination, social dumping and barges
Contractors at two UK nuclear plants staged a walk-out today in support of protests over the employment of foreign workers at the Lindsey oil refinery in Lincolnshire. The apparent connections between these continued demonstrations and the Laval and Viking cases of social dumping brought before the European Court of Justice in 2007 and 2008 [...]