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Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a visit to the housing construction development of Elverby, near Newport Pagnell in Buckinghamshire, February 13, 2025
UNIONS have urged Labour to ignore the “naysayers” and “double down” on reforms to improve working rights.
The 11-affiliated Labour unions, including Unite, GMB and Unison, have issued a joint appeal to the party to make good on their promises outlined in the Employment Rights Bill.
It comes as Labour faces growing pressures from businesses to water down changes promised to workers’ rights outlined in the legislation.
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
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
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street
