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UNION activists and supporters gathered in central London on Saturday calling for major improvements to the government’s Employment Rights Bill currently passing through Parliament, writes Adrian Weir.
Union leaders, rank-and-file activists, leading labour lawyers, progressive academics and MPs lined up at the Campaign for Trade Union Freedom rally to point out the Bill’s shortcomings.
Many argue that the present Bill is far from what Labour originally promised in its New Deal for Working People, adopted at party conference.
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