[In an act of class solidarity with low…]
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In an act of class solidarity with low paid home workers, the 64,000 strong Inland Revenue Staff Federation have refused to handle 19789 tax return forms until home workers receive adequate rates for their menial tasks.
Currently, home workers are employed by the government to put tax-change slips into Inland Revenue return envelopes, an onerous, repetitive chore which the government feels it can farm out with impunity to the lowest paid section of the working class.
At the moment, home workers receive 25p for every 600 forms they put in envelopes, an hourly rate of roughtly 12½p.
The Inland Revenue Staff Federation's action-unprecedented among Civil Service workers-is an important step forward for the largely immigrant, largely female home workers whose conditions of employment have scarcely changed since the 1800s.