Many thousands of people in the UK work at home for companies supplying items such as Christmas crackers to high street stores. As these people are not classified as company employees, their rights are not recognised and they are sometimes paid as little as £1.40 an hour with no sickpay or maternity leave.
The National Group on Homeworking is targetting supermarkets to recognise the rights of these workers and pay them a decent wage. On Saturday December 11th there will be a demonstration outside Tesco on Cowley Road with banners, leaflets and hopefully some local media. Everyone is invited to come along and tell Tesco that this is not acceptable.