Split from Office Angels week of action thread
MT wrote:
MT wrote:
Jim Clarke wrote:
We've not been offering this to Office Angels employees as they're role in society is fundamentally exploitative if they're working in recruitment, but as modern workers trapped at desks like many of us we would offer you all the support we can. Guess things must be as shit for you as they are for us!Could you explain what you mean by this? especially the last sentence is confusing as I dont know if by "you" you mean the agency workers or the agency employees/clerks.
thanks.any chance of getting response?
That was addressed to the workers in the PR agency that has Adecco as a client. We've not offered any support to the employees/clerks for Office Angels or Adecco because their role in society is to hire and fire workers. We have been asking all along for the temporary workers at Office Angels to get in touch but with little success, hopefully this victory will help.
Jim Clarke wrote:
That was addressed to the workers in the PR agency that has Adecco as a client. We've not offered any support to the employees/clerks for Office Angels or Adecco because their role in society is to hire and fire workers. We have been asking all along for the temporary workers at Office Angels to get in touch but with little success, hopefully this victory will help.I think this is true to some degree but then everyone agency job I've ever lost has been because the company that I was working for has terminated (or not renewed) the contract, not the agency. The agency wants to keep you on there as much as possible because they keep getting a cut of it. Come to think of it I'm not actually sure if agencies can even withdraw one of their staff from a company they are employed to without that company initiating it, or at the very very least agreeing to it.
Yeah, the job of people at temp agencies is not to hire and fire but match employees with companies which hire and fire. You've got that bit the wrong way round Jim.
Maybe manage the exploitation of workers would have been a better way of saying it then
what does that mean?
either way I still wouldn't want to support recruitment agents in struggle.
so if they had their pay cut and they went on strike you would be against them?? On what basis?
Recruitment agents don't hire or fire people. Companies needing staff send details to the agency, the agency goes through their pool of workers and picks a few relevant candidates and sends them to the company. The company then chooses the one they want, hires them and terminates the contract when they no longer need them.
Temps and recruitment agents alike are both exploited by the agency, and have the same common interest against their employer like anyone else.