 Unions fear that jobs will be lost at UK call centres |
A major union is e-mailing a million students across the UK asking them to boycott companies sacking workers in Britain to set up operations in India. The e-mail will list banks and other companies that Amicus says cut wage costs by opening call centres overseas.
Britain's biggest private sector union says 200,000 UK finance jobs could be lost to overseas call centres by 2008.
And the Communication Workers Union says a further 200,000 UK jobs could go the same way in telecommunications.
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The Amicus campaign, backed by the National Union of Students, will also focus on overseas employment conditions.
The engineering union says students are already active on ethical issues at home and abroad and have enough buying power to make companies rethink their responsibilities.
BT caused controversy earlier this year when it announced plans to create 2,200 customer service jobs in Bangalore, southern India, in a bid to save money.
The company said no permanent employees would lose their jobs as a result of work being transferred to India.
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