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TRADE unions urged bosses to get with the times yesterday, after it was announced working from home is on the rise.
The Office for National Statistics said the number of home-workers had hit 4.2 million — a 1.3 million rise since the late 1990s, making up 14 per cent of the total workforce.
TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady said bosses didn’t “trust” staff so force them “to trudge into the office so they can keep an eye on them."
MARTYN GRAY asks TUC congress to endorse measures that would help stop the present exploitation of seafarers
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
