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The IER’s mission today is holding Labour to account on workers’ rights
Newly appointed director JAMES HARRISON sets out his vision for the Institute of Employment Rights, balancing healthy scepticism of Labour’s promises with proactive efforts to improve and expand workers’ rights
James Harrison, director of the Institute of Employment Rights
Westminster has been forced to pay out millions over a fire started by a soldier in 2021, opening a new chapter in accountability, writes NICHOLAS KOMU
Following a fratricidal period for the left with Morales and Arce at loggerheads, right-wing, anti-MAS candidates obtained over 85 per cent of the votes cast in the latest general election, writes FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ
The US could imminently return to the Wild West days of widespread and sometimes violent corporate repression of workers, says MARK GRUENBERG
Thousands rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday, against the war of extermination of Gaza, reports AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN
From training Israeli colonels during the slaughter to protecting Israel at the UN, senior British figures should fear Article 3 of the Genocide Convention that criminalises complicity in mass killing, writes IAN SINCLAIR
AFTER having the pleasure of working for nearly 10 years at the Institute of Employment Rights (IER), I’m absolutely thrilled to have recently taken up the position of director.
I’m excited to be working with our network of academics, labour lawyers and trade unionists to continue to provide information, critical analysis and policy ideas to assist the labour movement for the struggles ahead.
Since the July general election, Britain’s labour movement is still finding its feet in a new industrial landscape. The New Deal for Workers (NDFW), or “Making Work Pay” as the Labour Party has more recently branded it, seems like it will deliver meaningful changes for workers, and this should be welcomed.
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