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TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak at TUC Congress House in London, December 21, 2022
BRITAIN is lagging behind on worker protections compared with other countries, according to the TUC.
The trade union confederation cited a study by employment experts today as showing that labour laws are half as protective as those in France and “significantly” weaker than in other countries including Spain, Italy and Germany.
Analysis by Dr Irakli Barbakadze and Professor Simon Deakin of the University of Cambridge centre for business research demonstrates a need for changes to reduce the gap between workers’ rights in Britain and in comparable nations, the TUC said.
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
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
