When Seamus Foley took a job on a zero-hours contract at a board games bar in London two years ago, the flexibility it offered was appealing. Now, the deal looks so bad he is prepared to walk out on strike.
“It’s exhausting. You’re constantly living your life on the back foot,” says the employee at Draughts, which has bars in Stratford and Waterloo. There, workers fed up with last-minute rota changes and a lack of basic protections are staging industrial action.
