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Stories of the month - January 2008
News That sparked a furious response from the trade union Amicus, which is threatening legal action against Shell over the redundancy terms for IT staff affected by the outsourcing deal. Staffing issues also dominated one of the biggest stories of the... [30 Jan 2008]
Shell's outsourcing plans face legal threat
News But the outsourcing plans may be affected by wider legal action being threatened by Amicus to force Shell to reinstate a company redundancy package worth up to £200,000. Shell is facing the threat of legal action from trade union Amicus over staff... [07 Jan 2008]
ABN Amro, Barclays: Data centres on savings hit-list
News Keith Brookes, a national official from union Amicus, which represents Barclays staff, said the merger is about creating a global bank that is headquartered in Europe. AMN Amro and Barclays declined to reveal which data centres will be affected by... [23 Apr 2007]
Barclaycard closes call centre, offshores to India
News Amicus is working with the bank and has "robust agreements" to help affected employees find other roles within the Barclays group. But Amicus, the union representing Barclaycard staff, has condemned the plans. [07 Mar 2007]
Fujitsu Manchester staff to 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. [22 Jan 2007]
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]
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]
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]
Lloyds TSB IT staff get "inflation-busting" pay rise
News Negotiations were conducted between the bank and financial services union Amicus/Unifi, which described the rise as "inflation-busting" in a note to staff. Bernadette Fisher, national officer at Amicus/Unifi, told silicon.com that IT pay at the... [25 Jan 2005]
Lloyds TSB to offshore 1,000 jobs to India
News The move has also been agreed with trade union Unifi-Amicus under the terms of the offshoring consultation agreement reached earlier this year, where Lloyds TSB committed to engage the union at the concept stage of any offshoring moves. [10 Nov 2004]
Norwich Union to offshore nearly 1,000 jobs
News The latest news has infuriated the union Amicus, which says the move proves Norwich Union intends to reduce its total UK workforce by a quarter by 2007. David Fleming, national officer at Amicus, said in a statement: "This points to a bleak future... [23 Sep 2004]
Offshoring to India doesn't mean clueless call centres
News Indeed, one of the conclusions drawn from this week's debate, which featured Nasscom, the DTI, the union Amicus, India-based research company Evalueserve and other experts, is that training and offshoring must go hand in hand. [12 Mar 2004]
Exclusive: Barclays nears £450m offshore outsourcing deal with Accenture
News Earlier this month insurance group Aviva angered the union Amicus when it announced it will move 2,500 jobs from Norwich Union to India during 2004. Barclays has selected Accenture over IBM and is now in final negotiations with the firm over a six... [17 Dec 2003]
Unions push EU for Indian jobs investigation
News Amicus national secretary for finance said not only the UK is being affected by the offshore outsourcing trend, citing examples of France offshoring to Northern Africa and South America, Germany offshoring to West Africa and Spain offshoring to... [09 Dec 2003]
2,500 Norwich Union jobs moved to India
News Lee Whitehill, spokesman for union Amicus, told silicon.com the decision is just the "tip of the iceberg" and called on the government to establish a forum for unions to sit down with companies and plan for technological change. [02 Dec 2003]
