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Unite warns on Labour's ‘bad bosses charter’
Labour leader Keir Starmer speaks with workers during a visit to C&W Berry's Builders Merchants, Lancashire, May 24, 2024

LABOUR’S workers’ rights policy risks becoming a “bad bosses charter,” the leader of one of its biggest affiliates warned at the weekend.

Unite general secretary Sharon Graham called out fresh backsliding on the party’s central New Deal for Working People policy.

She said that Labour’s “again revised new deal for working people has more holes in it than a Swiss cheese.”

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