Sheffield demo as British Gas engineers strike over new contracts

Thousands of staff are taking part in a five-day strike in response to an attempt by the firm to push through pay cuts by threatening to fire workers.British ~Gas engineer David Lowe said: “ I’m a British Gas engineer and am being threatened with fire and rehire to strip my contract to the bones.“The fire and rehire is a legal disgusting practice which companies use to rip up your contact and impose you a lesser contract.“This practice is illegal in many countries but not ours.

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“We voted 86 per cent to reject this contract being imposed on us and are now in day two of a five day strike and the company is not respecting this.”