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John Hendy and Keith Ewing
Keir Starmer at Liverpool
Features / 11 October 2024
11 October 2024
Labour’s long-awaited Employment Rights Bill does not do nearly enough to remove the restraints on trade unions or to give them the powers they need to make a significant difference to the lives of the millions of workers, write KEITH EWING and Lord JOHN HENDY KC
picket
Features / 17 July 2024
17 July 2024
Professor Keith Ewing and Lord John Hendy KC examine the new deal for workers outlined in the King's Speech and what should follow it
Right to strike
Features / 9 September 2023
9 September 2023
We know the legislation intends to compel unions to force a ‘minimum’ number of workers over their own picket line, but how exactly is not clear, write KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY KC
picket
Features / 24 January 2023
24 January 2023
by Professor Keith Ewing and Lord Hendy KC
make work better
Features / 1 December 2022
1 December 2022
The government is openly committed to meeting the social and financial crisis with attacks on working people rather than reform. That is why we must now launch our own programme, write KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY KC
Mick Lynch Rishi Sunak
Features / 31 October 2022
31 October 2022
The government's current proposals to force transport unions to effectively break their own strikes may go against legally binding post-Brexit trade agreements — but we cannot fix this in the courts alone, write KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY KC
RMT
Features / 27 October 2022
27 October 2022
The Transport Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill is just the latest extreme blow to union power that comes without any offer of alternative input from workers – this flies in the face of all conventional sense, write KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY KC
CWU picket
Features / 11 September 2022
11 September 2022
The task facing the trade unions is enormous, as not only are the employers cutting wages and jobs, the Tories are attempting to violate international law to severely limit workplace organisation, warn PROFESSOR KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY KC
Institute of Employment Rights
Features / 30 April 2021
30 April 2021
Prof K D Ewing and Lord John Hendy QC say the pandemic has strengthened the case for an overhaul of workplace rights
Social distancing marker
Features / 13 September 2020
13 September 2020
The coronavirus has conclusively settled one argument: workers’ rights are a public health issue — and British labour law is not fit for purpose, write KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY QC
labour market
Features / 1 September 2020
1 September 2020
PROF KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY QC explain there can be no simple labour market under the free market: humans are humans, not inanimate commodities to be traded. To overcome this nonsense we need to reinvigorate the concept and practice of collective bargaining
Amazon rainbow
Features / 30 April 2020
30 April 2020
A massively expanded state is needed with a greater role for unions and the people themselves: PROF KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY QC present 'a post-Covid-19 manifesto'