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UNIONS must take a new blueprint for Scottish employment rights into workplaces to engage with stewards and members, a packed Scottish TUC fringe meeting heard yesterday.
Union leaders including Unite Scotland political officer Jackson Cullinane and Unison’s Peter Hunter gathered to launch the Charter for Employment Rights for Scotland, a new consultation document produced by the Institute of Employment Rights.
Charter co-author Chris McCorkindale, a law lecturer at the University of Strathclyde, said Scotland’s devolved institutions should change their approach to tackling issues where powers are reserved to Westminster.
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
Making sure this Labour government delivers on decent jobs, strong workplace rights and well-funded public services will defeat the easy answers to real frustrations peddled by the far right, writes JOANNE THOMAS
