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A NATIONAL organisation that works to improve workers’ rights in Britain has appointed a new director.
James Harrison, a former representative for Civil Service union PCS in the UK Border Agency and later the Passport Office, will head the independent Institute of Employment Rights (IER).
He joined the IER in 2015 as national co-ordinator and became assistant director in 2021 and worked closely with previous directors Cad Jones and Ben Sellers.
The unions are unhappy with the Employment Rights Act 2025 and with good reason. KEITH EWING and Lord JOHN HENDY KC take a close look at why the Bill promised more than it delivered
Labour’s long-promised Act has scraped through the Lords. While the law marks a step forward, its lack of collective rights leaves workers short-changed — and sets the stage for a renewed campaign for an Employment Rights Bill #2, argues TONY BURKE
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street