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RSS amicusNorwich Union moves more IT jobs to India
News Finance trade union Amicus has reacted angrily to the cuts calling them "brutal". Norwich Union is outsourcing 500 IT jobs - most of them to India - as part of company-wide plans to save £250m per year by 2008. [15 Sep 2006]
Amicus Outsourcing Stands Out From the Competition With an IP Contact Centre Solution From Avaya
White Paper Established in October 2002 with a clear remit to become the UK's leading provider of outsourced, multi-channel, customer contact and fulfilment solutions, Amicus's remote working contact centre strategy is pivotal to delivering the high-quality... [07 Sep 2006]
IBM wins pension suit
News The American Benefits Council, a not-for-profit organisation that supports privately sponsored pension plans and had filed an amicus brief on behalf of IBM in late 2005 - co-signed by such corporations as AT&T, Honeywell and Wells Fargo... [08 Aug 2006]
IT work permit system 'being abused'
News The UK's work permit scheme is being abused to import cheap IT workers from overseas at the expense of resident IT professionals, according to a report by trade union Amicus. Amicus questioned whether all of these work permits are to address... [03 Aug 2006]
Barclays to axe 1,200 back-office jobs
News Barclays said trade union Amicus has been consulted on the plans to close the three back-office sites and said it will minimise compulsory job losses with retraining and redeployment wherever possible. [29 Jun 2006]
eBay's "Buy It Now" Supreme Court boost
News E Patrick Ellisen, an intellectual-property attorney at Foley & Lardner, said: "I am not surprised that the Supreme Court agreed to grant cert, as this is a very hot issue with lots of amicus interest expected. [29 Nov 2005]
The east Asia story
AS Analysis Meanwhile trade unions such as Amicus have moved from outright knee-jerk opposition to working with firms to try and make sure some of the offshore savings are reinvested in the future of the affected UK workers. [26 Sep 2005]
CSC to retrain up to 10,000 workers after offshoring
News US IT firm Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has promised private sector union Amicus it will retrain up to 10,000 UK staff when it moves work offshore. In a press statement, he said: "Globalisation is here to stay - Amicus is showing the way... [09 Aug 2005]
Leader: Offshoring acceptance
Leader Technology union Amicus said it doesn't "welcome" the offshoring of jobs but has an agreement with Barclays in which the employer must "maximise redundancy" and offer "the best voluntary redundancy packages". [19 Jul 2005]
Barclays moves helpdesk jobs to India
News Technology workers' union Amicus has been monitoring the bank's 1,000 planned redundancies since last year. An Amicus spokeswoman said: "Obviously we don't welcome jobs going abroad. Barclays Bank has said up to 140 jobs will be affected as it... [19 Jul 2005]
Amicus members protest outside BT's general meeting
News Members of Amicus, which describes itself as the UK's largest manufacturing, technical & skilled persons' union, protested outside BT's annual general meeting, furious that it snubbed Marconi when choosing its first wave of suppliers for its 21st... [15 Jul 2005]
BBC tech workers call off strike
News Bectu, along with Amicus and the National Union of Journalists, called off the planned walkout as a gesture of goodwill following a new offer from the BBC. Following 20 hours of mediation, the BBC's technical workers union, Bectu, has suspended its... [27 May 2005]
BBCi 'not affected' by hard-hitting strike action
News The walkout, the first of four possible strikes, saw members of the National Union of Journalists, Amicus and the BBC's technology workers' union, Bectu, take part in the one-day walkout in protest at thousands of proposed job cuts and part... [23 May 2005]
IBM 'slash and burn' may hit UK first, union fears
News Amicus, which has more than one million members, said that is cheaper and easier for IBM to make redundancies in the UK than anywhere else in Europe. A spokesman for Amicus said: "We've called it a slash and burn reaction to poor first quarter... [06 May 2005]
Union hails Lloyds TSB and Fujitsu transfer terms
News Amicus Unifi admitted that the deal for staff is still not perfect but said it was the best TUPE transfer it had seen at Lloyds TSB Bernadette Fisher, national officer at Amicus Unifi, told the staff in a newsletter: "Access to the defined benefits... [29 Apr 2005]
