Deliveroo riders protest outside the company's HQ in August 2016
WORKERS’ rights must be treated as a public health issue due to the acceleration of insecure work across Britain, socialists said ahead of this week’s STUC Congress.
Speaking at the Morning Star’s fringe event on Sunday night, trade union representatives and employment rights experts said that workers in a number of sectors have been taken advantage of throughout the pandemic, describing bosses’ behaviour as a “corporate offensive against our rights.”
But union organisers were able to giving examples of action taken to protect members over the past year during the meeting, held in conjunction with the Institute of Employment Rights (IER), which focused on Covid-19, the law and workers’ rights.
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