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Scottish Greens call for ‘real new deal for workers’
Scottish Greens

THE Scottish Greens have challenged Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer not to backtrack on workers’ rights, as they echo STUC calls for devolution of employment law.

The Labour Party’s New Deal for Workers pledges to roll back recent anti-trade union laws, enforce a “real living wage” and end “exploitative” zero-hours contracts.

But the party have so far refused to back devolution of employment law.

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