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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.
TUC general secretary PAUL NOWAK tells Ben Chacko that Labour can win back disillusioned voters by delivering workplace reforms, rebuilding trust and challenging the far right’s growing influence
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
Making sure this Labour government delivers on decent jobs, strong workplace rights and well-funded public services will defeat the easy answers to real frustrations peddled by the far right, writes JOANNE THOMAS
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP