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Photos: Fujitsu Services hit by Amicus strike
News On Wednesday the staff, all members of the Amicus union, joined staff from other unions to protest over employee rights in a mass rally in Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester. Credit: Amicus There are 300 Amicus members working for Fujitsu Services in...
[February 2, 2007, 12:17]
Legal action threatens Shell's outsourcing plans
News Shell is facing the threat of legal action from trade union Amicus over staff redundancy terms, which could hit the oil giant's plans to outsource up to 3,200 tech jobs. But the outsourcing plans may be affected by wider legal action being...
[January 8, 2008, 7:53]
Union wades into offshoring row
News Unions representing business-process and call-centre employees are planning to establish an independent public investigation into the outsourcing of UK jobs abroad, according to Amicus, which is the largest union for private sector and...
[February 9, 2004, 8:05]
Fujitsu staff to strike again
News Staff at Fujitsu Services will go on strike again this week, after the collapse of arbitration talks aimed at ending a long-running dispute between members of the Amicus trade union and management. But, according to Amicus, the company has imposed...
[March 5, 2007, 12:34]
Fujitsu faces five-day strike
News Staff at the Manchester offices of technology giant Fujitsu will go on a five-day strike in just over two weeks' time, as the ongoing dispute between the company and trade union Amicus shows little sign of resolution.
[January 19, 2007, 16:01]
Fujitsu staff start five-day strike
News A spokeswoman for trade union Amicus said that all its members at the Fujitsu Services facility in Manchester had walked out, and that the union was now seeking support from other Fujitsu Services' sites in Sheffield, Crewe, South Wales and Thames...
[January 29, 2007, 13:14]
Chancellor urged to make it a broadband Budget
News Marconi has suffered particularly badly in the recent telecoms slump, and the protesters -- all members of the Amicus union and employed at Marconi's factories in Liverpool -- want the government to commit more money for IT investment.
[April 17, 2002, 12:17]
Fujitsu workers to strike this week
News The dispute affects some 300 employees at the facility who belong to the Amicus trade union and work on contracts for companies such as Marks and Spencer and H&M and for various government departments, including the Home Office.
[January 10, 2007, 13:44]
Yahoo!, ISPs dig in against labels
News The 30-page amicus brief, signed by 12 groups including the US Internet Industry Association, the Computer and Communications Industry Association, and Yahoo! A copyright holder can certainly, as Verizon suggested that the RIAA do in this case...
[September 11, 2002, 8:30]
Court battle highlights email rights
News The current decision "grants employers unbounded discretion over the content of employees' communications on employer computer networks and sanctions use of the courts' injunctive powers to censor employees' electronic speech", attorneys...
[April 1, 2003, 8:32]
Librarians issue file-sharing support
News The amicus brief will make the point that we are not supporting the wrongful sharing of copyrighted materials," ALA executive director Keith Michael Fiels wrote in an internal email seen by CNET News.com.
[September 26, 2003, 11:10]
Supreme Court nixes copyright challenge
News Eben Moglen, a Columbia University law professor who filed an amicus brief siding with Lessig on behalf of the Free Software Foundation, said one benefit of the decision is that it will radicalise programmers and free-software activists.
[January 16, 2003, 9:09]
Teleworking 'is good for your health'
News In a separate report by Amicus, the trade union for skilled and professional people in public and private sectors, research revealed that workplaces are becoming more stressful every year. Roger Lyons, joint general secretary of Amicus, said...
[October 14, 2002, 18:17]
Judge orders identification of file swapper
News A dozen consumer and privacy groups in August filed an amicus brief siding with Verizon and arguing that section 512 of the DMCA is unconstitutional. A second pro-Verizon amicus brief filed by the US Internet Industry Association, Yahoo and other...
[January 22, 2003, 8:00]
Union fears IBM job cuts could hit UK first
News Amicus, which has more than one million members, said that it is cheaper and easier for IBM to make redundancies in the UK than anywhere else in Europe. We've called it a slash-and-burn reaction to poor first quarter results," said a spokesman for...
[May 5, 2005, 13:50]
Accused port hacker says log files were 'edited'
Talkback Does the UK have the equivalent of an amicus curiae brief? To Do List: Someone needs to write the judge in this case and set the record straight. The UK needs to re-evaluate their expert witness evaluation criteria.
[October 16, 2003, 0:14]
Is video conferencing really the answer to lowering carbon emissions?
Blog I have just been at a rather interesting lunch with some chaps from HP, video-conferencing company Tandberg, the UK Centre for Environmental and Economic Development (EED) and the trade union Amicus. So if businesses can really latch-onto video...
[May 30, 2007, 17:24]
UK ordered to end 'long hours' culture
News The government has been given two months to comply, following a case brought against by the union, Amicus, which successfully argued that the UK's implementation of the European working time directive was unlawful and inadequate.
[April 29, 2002, 16:52]
Fujitsu staff prepare for more strikes
News But on Monday morning, the union helping to organise the action, Amicus, said that the staff were prepared to hold one-day strikes on 28 February and 7 March and a five-day strike starting on 12 March.
[February 19, 2007, 16:03]
Fujitsu Services settles union dispute
News A dispute between Unite the Union (formerly Amicus) and Fujitsu Services ended on Wednesday, with members of the union agreeing to work normally and the management agreeing to accept a number of key terms including union recognition — something it...
[September 13, 2007, 14:43]
