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TRADE UNIONISTS urged Britain’s workers to “generate industrial power in the workplace” after legal experts warned the next decade will be full of “ambiguity” for workers’ rights.
Irwin Mitchell solicitors have expressed concern that the Withdrawal Act 2020, which agreed that Britain would leave the European Union on January 31, has no guarantees about enshrining European labour legislation into British law.
Although Britain will follow all EU law during the transition period ending on December 31, Irwin Mitchell’s Sybille Steiner said that the Act “does not contain any reassurances about worker rights.”
The unions are unhappy with the Employment Rights Act 2025 and with good reason. KEITH EWING and Lord JOHN HENDY KC take a close look at why the Bill promised more than it delivered
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
The left must avoid shouting ‘racist’ and explain that the socialist alternative would benefit all
