Grahame Morris MP: Fire and Rehire is despicable and it must end
Grahame Morris is Labour MP for Easington and is chair of the Unite the Union Parliamentary Group According to TUC research, one-in-ten workers has been threatened with the pernicious practice of fire...
View ArticleTony Burke: Why Labour’s new deal for workers is a game changer
Last week marked a turning point for the Labour Party as they at last announced a “new deal” for workers – adopting many policies and ideas advocated by the UK unions, The TUC, the Campaign For Trade...
View ArticleUnionDues: Labour market regulation needs strong unions
Simon Sapper is a trade unionist and host of the UnionDues podcast. A happy and healthy new year to all our readers. In our first episode of 2022, which drops at noon on 11 January, we look at the...
View ArticleOutrage after P&O ferry crews at Dover replaced ‘by seafarers paid just £1.80...
P&O, one of the UK’s largest ferry operators, has been accused of replacing sacked staff with new crew who will be paid just £1.80 an hour, as the fallout continues from the company’s decision to...
View ArticleWhy government plans to ditch promised new workers’ rights laws should worry...
Tony Burke is the president of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions and chair of the Campaign For Trade Union Freedom The long-awaited employment bill, which was expected to have...
View ArticleP&O is a disgraceful example of ‘fire and replace’, so what can we do to stop...
By Professor Keith Ewing, professor of public law at Kings College, London and President of the Campaign For Trade Union Freedom Grant Shapps’ nine-point plan in response to the P&O affair has...
View ArticleReasons to be Cheerful Podcast: 5 takeaways from the latest episode
In our latest instalment of our roundup of the Reasons to be Cheerful podcast, I take a look at five takeaways from the episode on ‘the real story behind the great resignation’, which has seen record...
View ArticleImran Hussain MP: Without an Employment Bill and protection for workers’...
Imran Hussain MP is MP for Bradford East & Shadow Employment Rights and Protections Minister Back in July 2020, six months after the Government set out plans for an Employment Bill and with no...
View ArticleVoices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week
1.Liz Truss met with US lobbyists who tanked Obama’s Clean Energy Act-openDemocracy OpenDemocracy has an important piece on how Tory leadership hopeful Liz Truss has endorsed think tanks which ‘made...
View ArticleThe Conservatives claim to be the party of aspiration, but their broken...
Eloise Sacares is a researcher at the Fabian Society. Many of us will face a situation at some point in our lives when we are simply not able to work. But under this government’s threadbare safety...
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