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IWGB University of London branch
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THE INDEPENDENT Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) is bringing a landmark legal action which could introduce the concept of a “joint-employer” to English law, the union announced today.
The IWGB filed a claim for judicial review at the High Court yesterday, challenging an earlier decision by the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) which held that outsourced workers were not entitled to collectively bargain with the University of London.
The union has been supporting the university’s outsourced workers in their campaign to be brought back in-house since September.
Labour’s long-promised Act has scraped through the Lords. While the law marks a step forward, its lack of collective rights leaves workers short-changed — and sets the stage for a renewed campaign for an Employment Rights Bill #2, argues TONY BURKE
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
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