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RSS amicus in newsOffshoring won't turn UK into "nation of hairdressers"
News Peter Skyte, national officer at Amicus, said UK businesses are in danger of engaging in a "race to the bottom" as they move from one offshore location to another looking for more and more cost savings through cheaper... [04 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... [23 Sep 2004]
India to get tough on foreign data security
News India currently has no data-protection standard similar to those found in Europe, leading some - including a group of Labour MEPs and trade union Amicus - to demand that the EC stretch the data-protection law to UK data... [25 Aug 2004]
Amicus threatens to strike over offshoring
News Delegates from the finance workers' section of trade union Amicus are meeting today in Scarborough to vote on industrial action over offshoring by banks and finance companies. An Amicus spokesman said:... [01 Jul 2004]
Offshore data security fears dismissed by UK
News The UK's data protection watchdog has dismissed concerns raised by the Amicus trade union and British politicians about the security of UK customer data handled in offshore locations such as India and South Africa. [06 Apr 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... [12 Mar 2004]
Two keys to offshoring: Education and training
News Research into consumers' attitudes shows 60 per cent aren't only worried about offshoring but about their own jobs," said David Fleming, national secretary of union Amicus, speaking at an event on Tuesday evening run by... [10 Mar 2004]
Offshoring and IT skills gap leave UK lagging behind
News David Fleming, national secretary of financial services at trade union Amicus, told the committee last week that little has been done to assess and plan for the impact of the loss of jobs through offshoring on local... [18 Feb 2004]
Unions threaten strikes over offshoring
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... [09 Feb 2004]
IT staff await news of British Airways job cuts
News The Amicus union, which represents some BA staff, told silicon.com it had been consulted by the airline, although it was unable to reveal details about where the losses would be. British Airways' IT staff are anxiously... [27 Jan 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 is set to sign a £450m IT outsourcing deal with Accenture that... [17 Dec 2003]
Unions push EU for Indian jobs investigation
News Finance sector union Amicus is today holding a series of high-level meetings with MEPs on the back of last week's announcement by insurance group Aviva that it plans to offshore 2,500 jobs to India next year. [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... [02 Dec 2003]
Indian staff offer "better" service says rail enquiries chief
News The train operating companies have come under fire this week from the union Amicus for plans that could lead to up to 1,700 rail enquiry call centre jobs being offshored to India. Indian staff are not only cheaper but... [13 Nov 2003]
Rail enquiries to be offshored to India?
News But union Amicus claims ATOC is proactively pushing for the work to be done in cheaper offshore call centres. Lee Whitehill, spokesman for Amicus, told silicon.com that representatives of ATOC have... [12 Nov 2003]
